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More information about the burial grounds and how you can help can be found at the Danvers State Memorial Committee website: http://dsmc.info

If you think condos are bad, plans are to turn another old state hospital site into an amusement park!

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.

Mr. Motts, there is something I've always wondered. Maybe you can clear up my curiousity? Why was checkered flooring so popular in asylums?

Good spot to see how those vertigo therapy sessions are working out.

They still look like that. What do you mean?

Don't you folks go to the dentist?

Looks fairly modern.

Those buttons were obviously used to slyly divert the patient's attention while she went about her dastardly deeds.

(Just hopping on the over-imagination bandwagon)

I suppose cribs could have been used for certain folks who just tended to roll around a lot and fall out of normal beds. Modern hospital beds do have low side bars.
If they were strapped in, they wouldn't really need the bars, and the bars don't seem like they would have stopped someone not strapped in from hopping out.

They likely used to go through quite a few toilets from being repeatedly jumped on until they started with the concrete. The sink is probably high enough to deter most jumping.

Yes, ~Me. I was thinking of that as well.
Morbid as it is, I would like to obtain "Graves"' toothbrush.

It's like you're so small 'cause of that large beam in front.

Motts, what you said not only sounds fairly poetic, but it is also very true. There must be some false sense of security in that feeling, yes?

The blue lighting looks so ghostly, like it would have to be photoshopped in, or edited in to create that image. I'm in total awe of this piece.
Great job!