765 Comments for Taunton State Hospital

Great brickwork even extends up to create the gable. Very nice diving platform there also.

Looks like tidy zombies in that wing are keeping it swept up nicely.

Unruly patients were stuffed down that hole and into the bowels of hell, never to be seen again.

Any indoor plumbing and electricity features added later were slapped in wherever they could be. Solid masonry walls.

Zombie square dances too. Bench, awesome 4x6 pane French door, windows sashes, light fixture. I'd like to think the stuff was salvaged and lives on somewhere.

I worked a TSH for a few years, definitely creepy at night lol. But I knew a woman who worked there for 40 years. She has stories that would make your head spin. Mental health while imperfect, has made leaps and bounds since its infancy. There are tubs in the basement level that were filled w ice and water to "calm" patients down. These were used especially on the weekends due to there bring NO doctors from friday night until monday am! Also, those tunnels were used to transfer patient from building to building during inclement weather. My friend (female) used to walk alone w 40-50 patients in those tunnels.... she told me when I asked her how scary that was. "Hey, we had 2 staff members per ward, its what we did" Nope, I can't even imagine!

These photos were taken in the oldest part of the hospital, a neo-classical building constructed in the mid-1800s. It was behind a very tall black fence on the north side of the campus. Not sure when you were last there, but the building was mostly torn down in 2009; there's just a grassy field back there now.

I would love to know where in the world you shot these pics I was a patient in Tauton state hospital a few years ago with free range of the grounds at the end and never saw anything like this

This is where all the ghosts party @ night LOL
What a waste of such a cute piano and bench, though...

Oh thats the movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane. With Betty Davis and Joan Crawford.

Chair makes me think of Movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane. Thanks Mott for the gallery.

Concur with Freespirt76. Well not about the broken record part.

MMM like nitrous.

With eldo and Iceburg on the chair.

Wallpaper Please!