3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

It's...a...boner room? What the hell is a boner room?

Awwww, gee thanks, Lynne! : )

Looks like those glass cube blocks, but it's probably just a window with a lot of smaller panes.

Or walking out into mid air...

Oh child, we'd rush down and pick you up, give you a tetanus shot, and get you to an asbestos clinic if that happened. :-)

They really don't make 'em like they used to. Such a shame that this will soon be lost forever.

One day we'll wake up and realise that our architectural history consists of corrugated tin supermarkets and flat-pack housing, because anything of any value has long since been ton down.

BONER!

Thank-you. *head bowed reverently* Again, I feel small. This gallery was intense.

Motts, does anyone know what purpose the basement served. I mean, was it a storage area, or what?

Just in mine. :-)

That's okay rich, I look at photos like this and I lose all sense of reason, and get overwrought, so I usually can't type either.

If I thought they would let me look through the buildings and pick up some stuff for our museum (or any museum), I'd be up there in a heartbeat!

However, I am such an old-fashioned type that I would need not only permission but written, signed, sealed, and legally affadavited permission. ;-)

MOTTS, YOU went through "the doors". Yikes.

Bill, that is what I always think about when I see these magnificant older buildings. This would be a bitch by today's standards, but without all that fancy-schmancy power equipment . . . =8-o

The peeling paint, the abject sameness. It's so eery, and sad. They must have been so horribly bored here.