I just hope you won't be disappointed in what's left at Bartonville. Lets see, when I was there last weekend I tried to really take note of the entrances. They've got all the basement entryways blocked with all sorts of tree branches in the basement wells. The doorways on the porch and basements have been covered with metal siding. One small room that had the railroad tracks in it (the entrance to it is in the side of a hill) has junk like old lockers that the owner is starting to throw in there. Makes me really mad. The entrances at front and back of the building have cattle panels over them and they're held tight to the door frames with chain/padlocks. The front door is right next to the main road under a streetlight too.

Windows on the first floor have either been boarded up or have wire covering them. From several people I've talked to that have been in there, I've been told that you really have to watch your step as there are big holes in the floor. The gal I work with said then that when she was in there about 6 years ago there were huge holes in the hallways that you had to hug the wall to get around. I could see areas through the windows in the 2nd and 3rd floors that makes me leary of where I'd be walking. Daytime wouldn't be so bad, but I'd be leary at night not knowing what the floors are like.

I haven't been able to find anyone who can tell me about the basement except that the stairs to the basement are where alot of the ghostly stuff is suppose to take place. It sure is BLACK in there with a very cool breeze blowing out. We could see through the first floor windows that the metal framework holding the ceiling tiles up has fallen in alot of the rooms. It's full of asbestos and I guess the owner can't do any work until the stuff is gone which is why nobody has done anything with the building. Suppose he just bought it all as a tax writeoff as he stores some of his small tractors at the back building.

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