1,256 Comments for Foxboro State Hospital

Tiles. Big bathtub! Curtains.
Would not mind this at all! It´s a fine bathroom.
This look BETTER than my basement bathroom right now! (House built 1935)
Good photo, well done!

Thank you so much for the link to Chestnut Green.
Now every time come back to Foxboro State Hospital ,am so relieved that it is saved and people are living there happily. It was doable !!!
This is a good picture; those four windows are lovely, and the fern is charming.

Ahhh hahaha hat-box lamps!
The light form the double windows at the end of this corridor is so friendly and hopeful, after the dim hallway -
and i swear i see a green plant over there.
Or my eyes playing tricks on me?
Very nice this is! May you always be well.

Those lamps - they look like old-school hat-boxes sitting up there.
Don´t think they are pretty; but wonder, and will never know, if the light they spread was nice.
They are everywhere, of course, and that is good. Consequent, they were, hahaha. :)

This looks like something that would be "outside", like a store-front.

Lamp! And a nice one. Otherwise all the rest of them are the same everywhere, and not pretty !

Thank you for this wonderful gallery, and for the link, too.
It feels so good to know that this place has been taken care of so well as Chestnut Green. Lucky strike!
It looks so good, and must be a lovely place to live.
Even saw a renovated fireplace! It can be done, this proves!

Thanks Janice. It seems pretty tough to track down family member history from the DMH (department of mental health). You can try contacting them, but I found this reply posted online, which doesn't sound too optimistic:

http://archiver.rootsw...s/2012-10/1351111134

For a deceased client or patient, DMH may only release records pursuant to a valid Court Order or upon written authorization from the client's Executor or Administrator of the client's estate. This is true even for very old records. Also, even if there was a Court Order or Probate Court authorization available, it is possible that any records from 1991 and prior (if they even existed in the first place) may have been lawfully destroyed. State regulations permit the destruction of impatient records older than twenty (20) years old.

My maternal grandmother spent 30+ years of her life there - she died there in 1958, and I heard from relatives that she had shock therapy there - ugh. She is supposedly buried in the State Cemetery on Cross Street, but I have not been able to locate her grave because there are no names on them - only numbers : ( Great photos though - I am really enjoying them.

I couldn't have gone past that door without blocking it with something.

You do perspective shots SO dang well!

Would not go here at night.

The saturday night dances were fun, especially the night I escaped!

working at one of these hospitals, you will never worry about weight gain.

Ferns and moss and a shrub, or a small birch? - Nature overcomes all! It is green and grows. Lushly. Amazing. You are a very brave man, Mr. Motts! Be well and stay in ...................

NICE! The light at the end, too.