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Its probably gone by now... this is one of the buildings I believe is gonna get renevated.. prbly taken out when they did the asbestos removal...

Is this in Massachusetts? What city?

Looks so sppoky up on the hill when you drive by it on 95... the water tower and the coupelas...

..and the crane : (

If you look at the building just above the right side of the 'V', you can see a small area of pavement- that is and old gated off acess route in the back. If you ever want to see Met State legally, then just drive down Emeline St and go all the way down and around.. you will be looking inbetween the male and female employees housing staright at the spot where Motts is taking the picture....

The CTG is directly to the right of him on the hill...

Actually, I dont think that MetState is going down the same exact path as Danvers and others... I hear that the golf course is only supposed to be a smaller one to the front (9 holes). But, thats even if it gets built. I have the luck to live within 5 minutes of the place, so I hear whats happening and not happening there. They have been saying for years now that thats whats gonna happen, but I think that idea was scraped. Currently, it seems as though the main road leading from Trapleo Raod in Waltham all the way to the other road in Belmont is turned into a parkway, which will soon be open to the public. Hiking trails and bike paths are also being put in in the woods between there and Gabler Childrens Hospital (another abandoned hospital that I live within 5 mins of :) ). Then, from what I hear, the Medical and CTG will be renovated into housing or buisnesses. No word on the other buildings yet... and DEFINATELY NO WAL*MART! And, sice we are on the topic, there is a 3rd abandoned hospital :) the oppostie way of gabler on Trapelo Road called Olympus Specalty (Middlesex County Sanitarium in its earlier years) that closed down around 1999. Unfortunately, Pulte Homes bought that and has all ready leveled the place and opened condos on it. The only untouched hospital of the three is Gabler Childrens... which is owned by the city and sits on new conservetion land called 'Mackarel Hill'...

(my fingers hurt)

u never know the person riding the bike may have got a sudden dose of the TOMMY TITS and had to abandon the lovely bike before it went all over it!

ONE HAS TO make light of a TERRIBLY SAD but poignant picture.

joe, I would imagine they had abandoned hope long before they got here. They were, after all, suffering from a largely incurable illness.

it reminds me of the barn at an old tb Hospital where I once worked in Maryland (now a gleaming life care center). The lovely victorian barn that had once housed the hospital's cattle and pigs burned rather spectacularly back in the eighties. Combing through the wreckage a few days later, I found 1 1/2 inch iron rods that had tied the frame together. The fire had been so hot that the rods became molten and as they fell, they assumed the shape of whatever timbers they had hit on the way down.

duno how many alarms, but it was large and the building was collapsing

Anyone got an update on which buildings are standing? It mite be easy to 'legally' view MetState from this new parkway they are hopefully gonna be opening... dunno what the means for the future of the buildings though...

How big was it? How many alarms?

the asylum cought on fire today

God, I just learned about Danvers Insane Asylum, and they've already torn it down. Its a shame too, because I live in Massachusetts. Great pictures though, I wish they never tore it down so I could tour it.

here,let me first put my sunglasses on before looking at the photo--------it's *&@#$% blinding me!!!

Look guys I can see nurse Ratchet!