1,256 Comments for Foxboro State Hospital

I asked my stepmom about this picture because she's worked at a few institutes and her mother did as well and she says it looks like it could've just been a wash room. Not for people but for clothing/bedding and other things. The hole could've been where they slid everything in for someone to sort through and wash.

She could be wrong though but it's just a guess. She said it's hard to depict without actually being there and knowing further details so we may never know the answer to this.

What else was in that little room with bigger part of the marble table? Might it have been some kind of storage closet and the cut out was for passing towels to pacients?

Another tub with a possible light...maybe an overflow drain? Looks almost like a grill in the shadows...

Is that a LIGHT fixture on the other end of the tub, towards the window??? Not the kind of shock therapy they'd expect, if the seal went.....(I know it can''t be a soap dispenser...sorry HAD to interject THAT...)

it might have been for the dentist.

Beautiful!

I'm pretty sure they weren't doing surgery in the washroom.

This is an operating room. You laid down with your head on the other side of the wall, so you couldn't ~see~ what they were doing to you.

It looks more like someone used it as a toilet.

It looks like the fire got a little 'out of hand' and charred the mantle above the fireplace.

Do you remember grandma's lye soap? Good for everything in the home, and the secret was in the scrubbing. it wasn't suds, it wouldn't foam!!

It also ruined the sides of the bathtub.

thank gorsh for inocence.

Washer-room makes sense. ;-)

To me, they look like the drains of an overflow system. You know, like the one on the front of most modern bathtubs. I don't see any holes in them that would indicate jets, but those little drain thingees have the holes on the undersides. Maybe?

I want to walk down that hallway and see that green grassy room

So freaking beautiful, ive been going through your gallerys and im so amazed, your really talented Motts.