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In an abandoned mental hospital, the lonely wheelchair. In the abandoned car plant, the lonely bucket seats...

Wow. Just stumbled across this site, spent hours perusing. Its cool to see an oldish mental hospital in good repair.
What I want to know after looking thru all these pics is how a place like this is supposed to make people "sane". The tiny rooms, no privacy, heavy locked doors, small windows etc. I have no mental illness, but I think if I was put in this place, it'd cause one.
Theres nothing about this place that says "a safe place to gather your grip on consensual reality". Instead it says "we are going to lock you away and control you...for your own good of course..." Yeesh.

I would like to copy some of your photographs onto my Facebook page. Is this possible?

I can imagine an old Grandfather clock on that second landing, quietly ticking away the hours. . .

You can tell the quality and expense that went in to building this mansion. Look at the ceiling and the lathing and how close it is. I remember my mothers house had plaster and lath walls and the lath was farther apart than this.

Jack, I agree with you 100%. I refuse to purchase new furniture for just that reason. Six months later, it falls apart. When I had to buy office furniture for my job, the desks were pretty expensive and when they came in a box I found out it was just particle board. After a few months of use, two out of the three desks had fallen apart. I was taught how to reupholster furniture when I was in my 20s and I would rather hunt the junk shops for certain styles of a chair and then redo it. Guaranteed it will last. I did one back in 1982 or 83 and it's still holding up pretty well.

Where did all the horses go???

It doesn't get any creepier than that!

Are those blue doors morgue doors? They're a color of blue I've seen in appliances!

Jan Pinkowitz, no apologies necessary. I just can't believe that we as kids had to endure such horrible treatment. I don't know how the Dept of Mental Health sleeps at night, I am sure if this was one of their kids, they would never have put them there, it was jail with physical, verbal,mental & sometimes sexual abuse. Not to mention the drugging that us kids got. They drugged us to keep us calm, I was so scared there, all I did was be calm and shut my mouth and do what I was told cause they for sure instilled the fear in me. My staff members on Ward D were, Jack,he was such an Ahole,Melody with the hook hand,she was so mean to all of us, she would swing her arm/hand hook at us like to scare us and verbally abuse us, Harvey, who just loved to egg us kids on to be secluded, thrown to the floor and then thrown in the seclusion room,he almost kid my boyfriend there,he beat him so badly that Willy the staff member who was actually nice to us kids called his parents and told them what happened and said come get him, so they came and got him, had to go to court and Harvey got into trouble,I am not sure what kind of trouble,but,he made it out that the kid he beat was being out of control, my boyfriend was sleeping at the time, he woke him up out of a sleep for the fun of it. Suzanne was the other staff member who was really nice,her and Willy were a couple, we called Willy Pickle,they truly cared about us kids. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of great memories there, I met the bestfriends in the world,and I still talk to a handful of them, and I see a couple of them. I am glad that closed that place down in 1992,but,not happy that they tore the building down, Boiler and I went in there together a few times before it was taken apart and torn down, my husband and I went in there all the time since I live in Waltham, it was just so nice that I could come and go as I pleased and didn't get locked in the building,a bedroom, the shower room or the Ward. It was freedom, and I was just so happy to say FU I made it out of here and you didn't break me. I wish the City of Waltham would have done something good out of that building for troubled kids, like a day center place and have children that were actually there be staff members, cause I honestly believe that us children can really only understand what a troubled child goes through, no drugs, no locked doors, just a center to help kids and make them see and understand that they are not bad. But, the building was just incased in so much Asbestos that they felt it was cheaper to tear it down, now there is nothing there but, the water tower, it looks strange. I often walk through the woods, go to Rock Meadow where the swing set still is and swing on the swings with my youngest daughter and husband,it's just so surreal...Thank you for saying you hope things improve for me, sadly,I have to say they won't, but, I am not dwelling on it, I just thank god for everyday they let my daughter's wake up and let me share another day with them and let me husband wake up so he can aggravate me another day lol he is the best, and I am very fortunate to have him all these years. Thank you for your prayers, I can never have enough of them.....xxxxxx.....

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If you see this I'm very interested in having a genuine conversation with you. I do urbex and seen your name in every place ive been to.

Wished I could have found this! Thanks for the gallery. Wonderful shots. Lots of memories.

Beg to differ with you Bill Many. These are actually 1, 3 and 5 dorms and the view is from the general pop side 2, 4 and 6. The bldg behind 5 dorm is on the Hill. Also this is not the yard but the area that kept gen pop from the pc dorms. The yard was in front of 2 dorm and behind 6 dorm with rec areas between 2 & 4 and 4 & 6.

These gates were added when the blocks were changed to lockdown blocks. When they were open population the space between the cell front and the wall were not enclosed.