1,256 Comments for Foxboro State Hospital

This looks very modern. I wonder if they left those walsthere when they renovated the place

Thats really cool and creepy at the same time. Those are scary looking sinks

motts' wet footprints make the photo even more creepy. or were they...?

Shawn, what would you expect being inside of a pipe?

Artificial Sunbathing!

I can't see anything that reminds me to torture here - I'd rather think I would enjoy a steam bath like this nowadays when I go to a modern spa, because I hate the steam getting into my eyes and make my head feel about to explode like in a regular steam bath... very convinient, this vintage stuff!

@Cataclysmic Star:
As single sinks, they are pretty common in Italy still today, especially in restaurants.

Thanks for the historical information Bryan!

actually one comment here hit the nail on the head, the facility was closed as a psychiatric hospital in the mid 70's (my grandmother actually worked there as a nurse until they closed) , at that point in the mid 70's the grounds were partially renovated by the DMH, and it was converted into a facility to house the mentally retarded, my mother worked there until it was closed in the early 90s (due to severe DMH cutbacks), she used to always bring me to work, so some of my earliest memories are in the facility, in the early 90s when the facility was closed, most of the mentally retarded occupants were either A) moved to housing, atleast the ones that could handle it, or B) transferred to the wrentham developmental center, in Wrentham, MA... my mother was actually transferred to Wrentham with a few other lucky employees that were transferred over with the clients at closing... so it makes sense that a book on mental retardation from the 80s would be found in the hospital, as that was the decade it was primarily operating as a DMH facility for the retarded. The facility was used for an annual haunted house, one of the best i've ever been to, until it was determined unsafe due to asbestos and deteriation... the state sold the property a few years back in an open auction. It was purchased by the Lorusso corp. and developed into a retail/residential location.. i'm actually typing this from my home across the street.. oh and the morgue was one of the staples of the original psych facility, located in a room off one of the tunnels that adorned the entire facility.. it was used until about 1970 when they finally began to use an off facility morgue service for the last 6 years of psych operation...

I live in this exact room now.

there is nothing sinister about this particular treatment.... as opposed to many of the others that have been suggested in this thread! they have redone the whole place and its all up for rent - partly rented out already!

clearly, its so that the person can breath when their body and that entire room is filled with steam....

I would sleep there for a million bucks

He's going the distance...Sorry I couldn't help myself. Nice shot.
{FallTwin}

I'm not sure I would have the guts to walk down that hallway. Not without a powerful flashlight, a pistol, and a whole bunch of other people that is. Fantastic shot but it is creepy.