361 Comments Posted by barbara

Very eerie...

Motts, are those holes in the floor all around the altar, or have numerous things just fallen? It looks like I can see some brickwork on the sides...

Its so intriguing how those radiators sink into the floor like that...

Wow Paul, I can't imagine what it must feel like to see the place like this.

In an odd way its neat how the floor just fell away from the fireplace...I keep imagining how I could get in front of the fireplace and to that little square of flooring left on its other side. Although that would be impossible and I would die in the process *scratches head*

I love the eerie touch the black and white adds...

Anyways, does anyone have any more info on this place? Like is there a good website or something? I'm just kinda confused about its history. Does anyone living around the area know how much of this is still there?

If you think about it, you can see those as being the legs of someone desperately holding on to the floor above after they fell through whilst exploring.
*tickle tickle* lol
Just Kidding!

I can just hear the crash in the dead of night when this falls through the floor below.

I just had to comment again. I don't know what it is but this photo gives me an oppresive, overwhelming feeling of sadness. Same with the pictures where things are starting to fall through holes in the floor. I guess its like seeing something on its deathbed, the last person to see it "alive." I don't know what it is, but it almost makes me feel sick with sadness.

Ohh that's really sad : ( I love cats, and animals in general.

I find it more of a nauseating color. The sage green you tend to see in houses now is much more pleasant, that's what I'm painting my downstairs in. Note: it doesn't look anything like this! lol

Oh gosh, now I have a picture in my mind of Motts sliding around, camera and tripod in hand!

Anyways, that's a pretty solid sheet of ice. Had there been some flooding or something? Oh, just thought - the ice would make it harder for guards to catch you if they tried to chase you - hmm, I'll have to keep that in mind, lol.

What a neat, nostalgic piece. I'd love to have a set like that (well, one that isn't overturned and broken).

This is really neat...what a beautiful mezzanine!

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this place!! Definitely my favorite of all, though Danvers does have its presence. There is just something enchanting about this place...

Sorry to double-post, but I couldn't figure out a way to add onto the old one. Anyways, I was thinking that if the graves there were simply marked by numbers, who knows how many unmarked graves there are? Danvers is a burial ground, a resting place. I just wish it could be preserved and turned into a musuem detailing the history of such institutions and treatment methods, serving as a memorial to all those who suffered under their walls.

Its nauseating, really. There's an online petition to preserve Danvers, at this link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/dssehl/petition.html
Prolly won't do anything, but I feel good knowing I tried.