Abandoned Tower in Vermont (OC)

[u/Whimsical_Ruins]

[u/davesoc]

Background: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/retreat-tower

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I wonder How many mental ill patients it took jumping off the top for them to realize letting them “take in the scenery” from a high place wasn’t a well thought out plan.

[u/BrooklynRobot]

Looks like a folly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly

[u/vastlysuperiorman → u/BrooklynRobot]

So you're saying I can't actually live there?

[u/hypnogoad → u/vastlysuperiorman]

Do you have super, SUPER long hair?

[u/vastlysuperiorman → u/hypnogoad]

No but my daughter does! Bwahahahaha!

[u/itzelezti → u/BrooklynRobot]

Sorta. It wasn't built for decoration, it was built to have something to build. The construction was a form of experimental "therapy" done by mental patients in the 1800's at a mental hospital called the Brattleboro Retreat.
It happens to be the same old-timey asylum that the movie Sucker Punch is based on. They rename it the "Lennox House" in the movie, presumably to avoid legal entanglement, as the Brattleboro Retreat is still open.

[u/ProxyMuncher]

I went through the mental institution this is at; Brattleboro retreat. They let the well behaved mostly stable patients come on a group hike up the mountain to visit this tower. I remember I was very out of shape at that point in my life, but we made it up to the top and I have stood right at the bottom of this tower, panting from trying not to trigger an asthma attack and sweating buckets. It was still really cool. They used mental patients’ labor back in the 1800s to erect the structure.

[u/Hypervisory]

So that's where the missing chess piece went.

[u/CliffsNote5 → u/Hypervisory]

Usually they are under the couch or behind the bookcase.

[u/IAMNOTFUCKINGSORRY]

Flowers gleam and glow. Make your power shine. Make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine. What once was mine.

[u/Embarrassed_Road3811]

[u/sgtedrock → u/Embarrassed_Road3811]

Underrated gem of a movie!

[u/Embarrassed_Road3811 → u/sgtedrock]

It truly is!!

[u/sgtedrock → u/Embarrassed_Road3811]

🤜🏼🎥🤛🏼

[u/robotdevilhands]

Looks like the Retreat Tower in Battleboro

[u/AdamFaite → u/robotdevilhands]

I think so. One of the podcasts that I listen to did an episode on it.

https://youtu.be/RPxKlamBo1E?si=hL0Co8-blBB0S3jk

u/weirderafterdark

[u/NecessaryInterview68]

Tower in the horror series “From” on mgm+

[u/Trogdor796 → u/NecessaryInterview68]

Your wife shouldn’t be digging that hole…

[u/isol8id]

ANGKOOEY!

[u/Spadrick]

Samurai Jack episode "Three Blind Mice".

[u/HospitalCorps → u/Spadrick]

I remember that episode.

[u/koolestani → u/Spadrick]

Pretty sure it was Three Blind Archers, but yeah, those Anubis looking creatures was the first thing I saw when I looked at this picture.

[u/ak47workaccnt]

Vermont: where they build stuff just to let it go to ruins because it's more picturesque that way.

[u/smitteh]

That's Karazhan

[u/Flavahbeast → u/smitteh]

you can glitch yourself into the basement but you'll get arrested

[u/gsfgf]

There's definitely a quest item in there.

[u/kain459]

[u/palimbackwards]

Reminds me of breath of the wild

[u/snoberg → u/palimbackwards]

There’s definitely a korok up there

[u/awill316]

Abandoned?? I think the 36000 spiders in there would like a word

[u/kallekilponen]

Reminds me of the slighly larger tower in Aulanko (Finland).

[u/shinigami56]

10/10 placement. Would buy

[u/Novirtue]

Found the Wizard.

[u/SneakyPhil]

There's treasure up there and also a ghost, but treasure. 

[u/PossibleSmoke8683]

Rapunzel vibes init

[u/ShamshuddinBadruddin]

You found Rapunzel!!

[u/theAgamer11]

I'll take it if no one else is using it.

[u/nathism]

Looks like the answer has been found but my initial reaction was that it was a shot tower

[u/n_mcrae_1982]

I could swear I heard someone inside singing “Mother knows best”.

[u/ForgettableUsername]

That looks like the kind of tower they’d have in Vermont.

[u/Mg962]

well it did cure mental illness justnotthe way they thought.

[u/Scythe474]

This must be in the Altus Plateau

[u/Mystery812]

Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair. Beautiful

[u/n_mcrae_1982 → u/Mystery812]

Dammit!

[u/favnh2011]

Nice

[u/Peter_Duncan]

Who bleached the dark tower?

[u/samuelstreet]

Used to live in that town. Beautiful spot.

[u/Fluffy_Mood5781]

I mean if no one wants it I’ll begrudgingly care for it

[u/brimsee_elon]

TOWER OF ONE

[u/upachimneydown]

Rapunzel, Rapunzel...

[u/snorlaxkg]

Is this the tower in Winterfell where Jamie Lannister pushed Bran Stark and stirred of the Game of Thrones?

[u/WeirdPop5934]

[u/Renting_Bourbon]

At first I thought it was a shot tower but now my vote would be for Retreat Tower.

[u/paradox28jon]

Has anyone checked to see if a princess is in that tower?

[u/forkedconcerns]

I saw this tower before in tangled. If im right there should be a milf waiting at the top for you.

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