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i think this is so sad, it just made me say "awww". it's just amazing that everyone of these picture tell a story...

Just a thing... if the place is from 1915, couldn't be neoclassical. Iron+glass... it will be art decó, or something like this, I think. Just this ^^

why does it look like wheel tracks going up and down the hallway on the floor? Or is just me?

Motts... what was this thing used for?

PS. I live in Italy, and near my house there's a giant Military Hospital built by Maria Teresa of Austria and closed between the two world wars, I think... You'd like it so, so much!

Thanks! The sounds of dripping water usually echo throughout the place. It's always very quiet unless it's a windy day; then you hear the wind howling through the structure, panes of glass rattling in their frames, and doors slamming shut and creaking open.

Some of the more unpleasant noises I've heard quite a few times: the crunch of tires on gravel from a cruiser patrolling outside, the thumping and screaming hiss of steam through semi-active tunnels, the noises of construction workers and hospital staff working just outside, and the heavy boots crunching along the paint covered floor as you're hiding out from the officer looking for you!

Yup, I've seen many bowling alleys! Pools are much less common (and much more dangerous), but some psych hospitals have a recreation building with one (KPPC, Riverside).

The developer has agreed to "save" the center core of the Kirkbride building. The entire complex is designated historical, but the engineers deemed it all unsafe. But, to show good faith Avalon Bay will restore the Kirkbride building, so they say. I will make a prediction. Once they get into the supposed restoration they will bitch and moan about how it's rotten and falling apart and will cost more than 4 times what they projected to restore.
Then I predict the wrecking ball will finish it off. When my son went in there he said the floors were all caved in from the third floor all the way to the basement. It was just a shell hanging on by a thread. Basically the place is waiting to fall into itself.
If the wrecking ball doesn't do the job, it just may implode into itself from heavy equipment moving around it, and that's that. But, if the developer does it right and shores up the building from the inside before removing the wings directly to each side, it should not cave in.
Time will tell lets see what happens.
To answer your other question, yes the whole hill is haunted. People were buried all the time in unmarked graves, and the graves that are marked are by a small block of granite with a number on it. Those markers are all overgrown. I hear the list of deceased owners of the numbers is lost long ago.
The hill was self-sufficient with a working farm and dairy. And you figure the first 50 years the hospital existed there was no electricity; they hat it rough. The souls of adults and children who worked and died on the farm still persist to occupy their territory.
Not to mention all the mental illness' living hell pre-medication, that the patients suffered since 1860's. In that newspaper article the developer said people will be pleased with what they see. He said it will be so much different for townspeople to look up and not see the castle, but instead cookie-cutter condo's and apartments. And the lives of all lost during the construction back when horses and cars lugged the Danversport clay brick up that hill and masons layed one brick at a time. I shutter to say how haunted it is up there.
Let's hope the spirits are not angry or those new condo owners and apartment renters will never have a good night's sleep ! Bob
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They still use many of the old buildings on campus. Could be rented out or state agencies.

Had a good encounter here with the paranormal. Beautiful building but after about an hour, and several encounters I knew it was time to go.

Being in there gave me the chance to really see what these people went through. No question that something of the paranormal lurked the halls.

Great place... Its a shame they would ruin something so eery and beautiful.

Yeah, totally Session 9!

it's a sledge hammer

I recall when I worked at Worcester State Hospital back in 1953.I wasn't ther e to,log but the few memories I have are sill prominent in my mind. One was taking the the clients to supper . We had to gather all of them and closley watch them as we marched down a long hall way or to the main kitchen in the basement of the administrtion Bldg.
To my first encounter with this routine I was amazed how a few of the cilents would deficate in the tunnels ,on the way to dinner or supper. Then after we got through eating we marched them back to their wards , A janitor would hose down all that was left behind into serwer like basins in the tunnel.
It was horrifying to me bu tI accepted it aa part of life that went on in there.
I also recall giving the females baths .These poor creatures need ed help in the showers So we would put bathing suits on to help them clean up. It was a hard time for adjustments in the State system then.
There is more to say but now I am retired from the Commonwealth of Mass
after retiring from Westboro State Hospital from 1983 and this year our of Lord 2006,............Beatrice Vincequere

I can see the dog and I can also imagine at least three faces. One woman in half profile just to the left of the dog, one face in full profile on the right near the black dot and one face near the lower window on the left. I'm not one of those "I see dead people"... but the longer I look at this picture the more faces I can imagine in the rotting paintwork.