3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

JM,

That reminds me of a saying I heard in a Franklin Day Planner seminar several years back: "That's either the light at the end of the tunnel or a very large train coming right at us."

Lynne, your grasp of history of the system just contstantly amazes me. I observed the photo and said to myself, self, what a great tub. It has nice tile on one side, It's deep, no price was spared to buy this tub, but what does it end up to be for most of readers, a source of torture and abuse. We damned lucky that we have you for straight on reality. The kids need a constant reality check, times have become so grotesque that it has been blurred and our kids have missed it.

When I was a teenager in the 60's we used to drive up to the hospital at night with our friends in the car...I would stall the car out and pretend to not be able to start it back up...It was very creepy with the headlights off and the moonlight shining over the face of the building...The grounds were taken care of and you could drive by the Bonner building and circle back in front of the main building...or drive on the road out back...The bars on the window and the gothic spires were beautiful and scary at the same time..What I didn't know at the time was that my own mother was sent there a few years later and I had to go visit her at the Bonner building...So I have fun and sad memories of the place...I am so happy you took the time to document this place and I found it online...Thank you

Good pic. Perhaps the ward highway to hell.

Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling, so personal. Dude, didja steal me smokes?

Great photo. Hopefully the light at the end of the tunnel.

Just by being sneaky... ;-)

Freaky and beautiful.. it makes me feel nervous..like someone/thing is going to grab me or jump out at me...

Just wondering how you didn't get busted while you were in there..or when you came out..

..It makes me sick that they're tearing the place down.. it should be preserved.. it's a beaitful place and historical place and it's being torn down by morons for some condos?! build the damn condos somewhere else!!! there's no need to ruin this place...people who do things like this make me sick..

Wow...just...wow...This picture... is amazing!.. it seems so familiar to me for some reason.. like I've seen it before somewhere, very strange.. very beautiful..

No, they were not animals. But you must remember, they WERE mentally ill, and in many cases they were a danger not only to others, but to themselves as well.

yeeps...this place is so creepy im half expecting that thing to start overflowing with blood...
These are some nice pictures. You have an amazing eye for photography, as well as nerves of steel. You couldnt pay me to go in there alone!

these are some amazing pictures. the whole building has such a feeling of gothicism. its a shame they'll be tearing most of it down soon....

I worked that floor for a few years, is how. It's been torn down now. Exists no longer. I recognized the set up of the ward. The wards on the 2nd and 3rd floor are identical in set up. The windows at the end of the hallway told me iit was J building, were it A building the set up would mirror imaged