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I love those doors and the unblocked transoms. This hallway appears to not have been renovated since the original construction. The doors seem too widely spaced to be single patient rooms. Were they dorms?

It's a shame that we live in a throw away society today. People don't care or under stand what these old buildings mean. What we and all people can learn from them. It's a shame we keep throwing our history and past away. At this rate we wont have a past to look back on. Today we build it, use it, let it sit empty for a while, tear it down. Rebuild with a building that will only last a 1/4 of what they tour down. Today's builders are just that builders, back in the day of this place, Danvers, and Dixmont those people were craftsman. They put there heart and soul in to there work and you can see it. Today just slap it together as fast as ya can and move on. It really is sad, and makes me sad and my heart ache.

Anna, that band is a chair rail, it is supposed to prevent the tops of chairs from damaging the wall, i have noticed these ( or their shadows ) in several other photos in this gallery.

Sorry, bud. Looks like I could do with a browse through it myself. I'll check on Amazon...

The shelf would make a great shot by it's self.
Great shot.

What a beautiful arch, and room to go with it. I can only imagine how beautiful it was back in the day.
I look at this picture and get a free feeling, it's kinda calming.

It is almost as if the chair is melting....

But it's hard to tell.

I think I suffer from PMS.
(Possibly Missing Seasons).

It snowed today, incidentally. Might be Winter...

Thank you for that info, Mari.
It is always great to hear from someone who has first hand knowledge on these places

THis is also the bomb shelter - it was painted white to ensure all the light in case of a nuclear war..The tracks are just that. You have to r ealize that this was a self contained community..these tunnels lead to the canning factory. laundry building. slaughter houses, fruit ochards etc.In winter all the food was stored in under gound root cellars. all canned goods were kept here. all food traveled from the tunnels to the hospital in winter - no one had to walk the snowy roads.Patients went to work in the cow barns, pig bans, chciken houses and all this was done through the use of the miles of tunnels that tranverse the hill

- DHS was an amazing place in the early 30-40's.
THose that coud, would work the farm, those that couldn't were locked in those little rooms. In those days when a child of 12 was not behaving normally they just dropped them off at the front and left. I had three patients that had been there since the age of 12 and there were many more on the other units.. They were still admitting in young teens in the 80's but this was stopped when the 6th floor tuned into DYS (Dept of Youth Services. (I worked in the Bonner Building)

YO Matt!
How do you know all this? It is Fantastic that you could fill in so much unknown!!! Thanks.

do be careful at old military sites, uxos are continuously being found. live rounds have been found that go all the way back to the civil war, wwI & II uxos aren't uncommon at all.
btw, really love the site.

I like it when you rhyme...

I think this is my favorite shot from this gallery. So many impressions can be taken from this shot. It's "message" is very ambiguous, but it's definitely a shot that says something about the artist and about the building.