ive been told that the light color green was associated with sanitary conditions and used in bathrooms a lot in the early 1900's thats probably the reason for the tile here
teve_paradise, weird, I live in North Dartmouth MA (right next door to westport, drive down the entire stretch of route 6 in westport almost daily but have never seen or heard of a haunted house along that way. Just did some research online and all I can find is rumors like "family burial ground, civil war burial, or indian cemetary"
I love the history of the north east, I've gone walking in what I thought was the middle of nowhere and stumbled upon gravesites. Amazing how they still stand, I wish there was an easy way to find all the history of this stuff.
I visited early today (as much as I could it's fairly busy around that area now. The building does look like its still in fairly good shape, the tower doesn't appear to actually be tilting in any direction, however no matter how you look at it, it does seem like its reaching out over you.
the very front of the building (the red brick), does look a little weak, you can actually see the cracks in the photo if you no where to look. Its slowly collapsing in on itself, but still looks far more stable than some of the homes in worcester. Man I wish I knew about this place just a few years before. All this time hanging out less than a mile away with nothing to do... could have had fun.
Van GoGo (about your post from 2 years ago lol) I agree with A.Adam about it being a waste of magnificent architecture.
Worcester as a whole is one of the ugliest poorest looking places I have ever seen, with absolutely nothing worth saving. Except for this hospital and a few other church's.
To purposefully make one of the most controversial buildings in worcester, the most beautiful is a waste, considering its now a pile of rubble, hidden by several newer buildings for the past 20 years.
I do think that the "crazies" should have had a nice place, but they literally got the nicest place in this hideous city.
The stars you see all over in this place were made to resemble the old badges the officers used to wear back in the day, They wanted the prisoners to get used to seeing that shape everywhere they were throughout the prison.
well, that's what the current owner of the prison told some friends of mine on a tour they took a few months back.