3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

this pic is so cool it makes me want to go on a road trip if u know what i mean

i think that is awesome

that is so creepy

im likeing the windows hahaha lol

thats really homey fealing

imagin something just running across the long black hallways to hell

omg that creeps me out thinking about session 9 and stuff

i would take the chair for a souvenier it woodnt be to comfy wen u think of all the patients in it tho

farewell the H, I, and J wards are downa along w/ medical bldg chapel(s) laundry ect for more demolition info and pics got o danversstateia.com

good night and good luck

Damn, the tore down almost all of it except for the G Ward. I wish i could have gone inside. This is the ebst website to see what it looked like. Great photographs.

In response to some of the comments and questions , I can tell you that the records did not contain that much detailed information about the patients. Back in the old days written records did not require much detail. Records would contain brief notes about daily living. Medication wasn't even used back then to treat mental illness the way it is today. I know this because I helped with the archiving of many of the old records.

Thanks Bander, I was wondering when the Kirk was closed, I only knew the date of the entire facility's closure.

I feel I must comment on this incredible building. I had the privledge to work for Danvers State Hospital . Just for information purposes the Kirkbride building had been vacant since the early 1970's, not 1992. Patients were transferred to another building, the Bonner Medical Building on the grounds early 1970's. So the Kirkbride has been neglected since that time.

I have just recently been doing research on these places,what great pictures you have taken,I live near Pittsburgh where there was also a place called Dixmont,the owner has also sold out to corporate America and the place will be replaced with a Super Wal-Mart,as if we don't have enough already,what about all of the history,of these places,I think it is truly sad,these places need to be saved and made into museums.Or at least the gorunds preserved.Lookig forward to you next update.