3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

I want to point out that its the creepiest and weirdest style of lighting they could possibly put into a hospital for people who need help.....

When I was a kid, we learned the Danvers State Hospital theme song - not sure who taught it to us. It went like this:

We live on a hill, we live on a hill
And every night, and every night
We come out, we come out
To count the cars, to count the cars.
Yaaaay Danvers!

This is obviously the height of insensitivity and political incorrectness, but decades ago, people didn't think twice about it, especially kids - who don't know any better

Imagine if this place had not been allowed to rot, what a tragic waste. Actually it seems a fitting metaphor for this fucking greed~addled USA.

Was David Caruso's signature there??

Beautiful!

Quoth the raven, "Nevermore"_E.A. Poe

The Angles are a nice touch to the pictures. Like most people that lived in this hospital saw this place like hell. So thinks as the pople living here are the angles and the devil are the docors.... i think

Do you know what our "tobacco" was when I was in my local inpatient mental health unit? A flimsy nicotine patch that did nothing to help the cravings.

Very interesting!

jjj,
they are now appartments... so I can say very hard to get in.

Ann is happy in a new better place than here

They used different colors so people would not go insane with white walls. You would feel things closing in on you and eventully end up insane....although some were, others were not

you know people were put in these hospitals for no exact reason. God Bless the souls who were

I'll take some tobacco, some soap, a misc -- make that two miscs, and whatever those last two are.

Looks like the fastening ropes have naturally broken from dry-rot, but the canvass is still intact. I thought that the ropes were not intentionally broken because the canvass is in the place it would be if it just fell from the frame.