Maybe I just have a great imagination, but the weight of this place really got to me. It looks simply dreadful (for children). What we all know now about these places probably affects my reaction. Bet those back stairs were for the kids.

Can you imagine being sent to a place that looks like that (I'm looking at the front of the building)?

Somehow the spiders seem like an improvement over the previous residents--and I don't mean the kids.