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the whole time I was reading the commets and looking at the picture i couldn't get buetiyschool dropout out of my head. I like the tile on top they could be used as a design in todays stile having them all glued togetter that would be pretty. sorry just gabbering.

You know, I was just noticing that. Here we have someone who actually lived in one of these places and can give all the feedback anyone wants about what it was actually like, and you'd think everyone's computer up and broke. >:-(

It's some stupid variant on Ebonics, which is grounds for committal! Stallion, his "boyz" ,Taps and the rest of them are sentenced to live in this rotting falling down old place for eternity and exist on eating rats and ultimately each other!!!! Damn that would rule! "LOLZWTFBBQ" I'm sick of people mutilating the english language, you ass clowns!

i'm soooo happy they are up I'm beendeprived of the internet because of the phone company.dumb people pictures are awsome. love ya. Motts.

Their treatment of the complex is certainly light much, much better than the lot of far too many other asylums. Sadly, there's also been a lot of unneccesery damage due to the things they didn't bother to do. That the sandstone sections are in such fairly good condition is due mainly to the fact that sandstone - unlike the brick - doesn't allow water to seep in, freeze, and damage the masonry and interior, as well as the fact that the admin building and male wards were used for storage in the eighties. The brick wards, alas, are in a horrible state of preservation, and are quite literally falling apart on a daily basis. And a lot of this is damage that could've been averted if they had just left the heating on in the winter, or at least occasional maintenance.

Oh, and as far as I know, we're still waiting for them to actually do anything more in the way of repairs/preservation aside from the fence and, I think, doing something to stabliize the admin building (since I do remember seeing scaffolding set up on there two years ago, but nothing since).

And lastly, if I may ask, how did Kate manage to get a legal tour? I've always heard that its nigh impossible to get those arranged these days.

that has to be the greatest looking clock tower in all of Massachusetts. I'm so glad i live in Worcester!

It looks like it's bleeding, likes its still dieing. :(

nothin like poopin in public

clowns

Too bad you missed out on photographing Boston State Hospital
I think it also used to be Boston Lunatic Hospital.. My grandmother was their in the early 1960s. Then in the late 60's early 70s it was closed.. Then in the 1980's part of it was re-opened as Dorchester Mental Health Center. Also, there was Dorchester Counseling Center . On the grounds there were a Boston Pre-release. I worked for Dorchester Mental Health Center from 1982 - 1987, when all the State workers were transferred to other "mental health facilities in Boston...)

where is this place? Because a friend mentioned something like this to me that's in Limerick and i dont remember if that's it or not

I feel like I'm getting yelled at. This isn't fair. I didn't do it. Don't touch me!

An ex boyfriend of mine took a turntable from one building. Were they called record players back then?...anyways. We plugged it in and sparks flew which killed it. I guess it was the bad energy of the place- didn't want to pass it on through our ears and junk.

Lynne no one asks any questions to some one who knows. Thanks for telling them anyway. =)

Who could stand to be locked in there for thirty minutes? I sure couldn't!