1,256 Comments for Foxboro State Hospital

That was me, Java. I swept the floor earlier that morning.

JohnBuff, I believe you're correct! And if I remember correctly, the thing at the Brockton fairgrounds is also a sink (with the foot pedal).

thank you

This photograph could be used in the very beginning of a horror movie which has the plot of an insane asylum gone wrong in the 1980's.
The title of the film could be "Social Skills"
and at the bottom of the movie poster it would say "Social Kills".

This morgue did get use. After all, some people were deemed unable to function in society and were basically imprisoned here for life. There's a few local plots very nearby where people were buried in numbered graves. Here's a Google map link for the location of one of them:

https://goo.gl/maps/PiTy36cZfrMRFJFd6

There's another one, but I don't know where exactly it is.

I also heard a family story about a person who died of...I think typhoid...and had to be buried within the walls because of it. It's a third-hand story for me, but this would've been fairly late in the history of the place - the 70s or even 80s, I think.

Motts, you haven't been back to "see yourself" ? You don't have to go all the way back there to see yourself....just look in a mirror. :-)
So very sorry, but I just HAD to say that!

I know this is a bit late for a response, but Colin, that's not a urinal (although I suppose some have been used as urinals) it's acutally a sink.

I know I'm posting late....still working my way through all the older galleries (I definitely spend too much time on each picture and comments!) I can't wait until I've finished the older galleries so I can start looking at the newer ones but at this rate it'll take me another year.

Love this shot, Motts. You have such an eye for setting up a photograph.

When initially looking at the comments, I had the exact same thought as Karma.
Love the comment posted by Ouroboris....laughed out loud! It's a great thing I'd just swallowed my lunch or it'd have been all over my computer screen! :-)

good

saw an autopsy before i was in grade school there. jars filled with brains, hearts and other human organs . spent too much time listening to screams of anguish and pleas for help from the poor souls trapped behind its bars. it may look better but it was hell on earth for many who were cursed to live there. the architecture is enticing but the history is hell!

Really creepy...I love it. I don't know why old abandoned asylums interests me so much. Maybe it's because I work at a psychiatric hospital. This has always fascinated me.

It's been a long, long time since I've been there, but I believe it was under the central services portion of the hospital, which was a 1930s-era structure that connected the old wards to the East with the new wards to the North - the crux of the "L" shape of the facility. Looks to still be intact these days.

What wing was the morgue in?

Amazing they just left all this good stuff there. Someone with salvage or junk rights could have a field day.

Loving this location..I agree with what Motts said earlier..it's so refeshing to see a place like this minus the stupid graffiti and vandalism!