3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

omg ive been watching websites about this place for 4 years and never seen one pic inside. ive always been iwanting to know what inside since so many websites show only the outside.thanks

I have visited danvers several times and have a picture of myself in the chair, out of the ten asylums I have visited I find danvers to be the most fascinating .The architecture is incredible and most of all in the photos I have taken I have orbs with faces, the theater is where I feel the presense of others.and to Michele 08-30-05, shame on you for your negative comment this place holds much history and souls of people that may have been forgotten to some ,and to demolish this place would be to demolish there exsistance.

There's even a mention of Danvers in my history book - in the section detailing the Salem Witch trials, it says something about Salem now being Danvers, or something of the like. I was reading and I was all excited at the little mention! *blush*

I signed an online pitition about 2 years ago to save Danvers, Also there's alot of Danvers History discussed in the "Session 9" movie comentery by the Director and one of the co-stars

You know, if I was with several other people who I knew wouldn't chicken out on me and run away, I would definitely spend the night there, no problem. *drags out sleeping bag* Let's get this party started!!!

Me too! Girls' Night Out, ladies? ;-)

i gotta give u props. thes are the craziest pics ive seen.i bean in there but not that deep . like i said i gotta give u props

Since the news will be gone in a while on my front page - You can make a tax deductible donation to the Danvers Preservation Fund, Inc., P.O. Box 2088, Danvers, MA 01923 to help save the Kirkbride building. Any questions regarding the preservation effort can be directed to Wayne Eisenhauer, Clerk (DanversPresFund@aol.com).

About what is real in Session 9; the morgue is a set, the plastic suits in the steam tunnel were placed there, and I think some of the "art therapy" on the walls was put there (although there are other patient rooms with actual pictures pasted on the walls). Other than that, I think everything else is pretty much there.

been there. seen it done in other "hospitals".

if you only worked in a place like this you could only imagine the hell these people went through,

this is great. why would they tear this down? i would love to spend one night in this place before it goes.

this is fantastic. i would stay there in a heartbeat,

...here's the committees' site http://dsmc.info

This is the month that Avalon will do its "trick." Iv'e been looking at some sites-the Danvers Preservation Fund for one.... because all this Danvers activity is in the works, I'm not finding alot of up to date info.--as in to the hour! Is it' too late :( I see Avalon has millions of dollars and the DPF has, well pretty much nothing to work with. There is a site and group dedicated to preserving cemetaries located on hospital premises...the Danvers before and after pics of these overgrown areas ( the pics are from years ago), and the post weeding , mowing and pruning pics of the the Danvers cemetaries (there are two apparently) is quite impressive. The local paper for Danvers had pics of past patients groupng tearfully with these dedicated people to try to save the grounds. There is alot of information out there mostly sad -- it's very overwhelming. And now, considering the present catastrophe in the south. A simple solution to many questions pertaining to saving these buildings would be: Preserve what is historic or unique or beautiful. What will and can never be reproduced again....
By the way, I recommend the movie "Session 9", in DVD format - -not for it's fictional story, but for all the footage of the Danvers grounds and buildings (though some scenes were staged, it's the real building I believe--Mr Motts would have an idea : )) The special feature info is interesting.

Nighty night!