3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

Amen DK!!!

Terra, I'm with you. I have always known about Danvers, but hadn't realized till I found this site late last night that it had been bought and ruined. I was up till 4am looking at these pictures and feeling like someone had kicked me in the stomach. How incredibly sad that they are gone.

If anyone is still on here, can you tell me the state of affairs as of Sept 2006? Has anyone got any pictures of what they left? I get the feeling it isn't much, just a shell of the main building, someone said.

It makes me sick...this was acres and acres of untouched history - medical and cultural and architectural. "Avalon Bay" (what a pretentious name) should be ashamed. I hope the condos are haunted as hell!!

i have to say that i live two towns north of danvers and when i was dating my husband who lived a town south from danvers i always had to drive by the danvers state mental institution even though i would see it from a distance..it looked so beautiful but always gave me this weird feeling everytime i drove by it....i know my husband and a few of his friends back in the day try to get up there to look around but he had no luck with the security...as much as i think they could have done a much better job with the movie session 9...it still scared the hell out of me especially with growing up so close by it and always seeing the institution but after seeing these pictures, it really makes me just want to leave everything that people have said they have experienced there to my imagatination...i have no desire to go up there and check it out because i know i would be freaking out...i do have to give people props though for going up there and checking out the place and the pictures that you guys have done came out amazing and seems like it really captures how rundown the place is now after all these years of being inhabitable...it is just plain spooky to me

this is a really cool photo.
i wish we had cool places like this near where i live! northern virginia doesn't scream "cool haunted places" to me either.

Yea Ryan I didnt see the movie until after I saw the gallery. The middle fingered glove was in the movie as well.

what an amazing photo

They do seem very angelic, and very sad, but have you noticed that their wings arn't angel wings, but 'demon' or 'bat' wings.
Have another tomorrow seems right

its prison!

BEAUTIFUL...... yet creepy

i dont know you n i just found your page doing research on something else but i love all the pics angles colors shadows but i hope and pray u were at these places with more than yourself !!!!

Seeing these pictures really make me want to get out and explore. Though I dont know why I'd wish anyone ill who would move into apartments that are built where this place now is, thats just silly.

dianne,

I'm from MA, so it kind of hurts when people are so willing to say it's all MA's fault for letting the place go. It happens all over the place so there's no point in placing the blame on a figurehead.

Danvers is a really unfortunate case of special interest. I hate to think about what's going to happen to it (but que sera, sera, it's already happening) and the developers that are actively involved. It sucks.

But there are cases in which the land is going to be developed for a more practical reason, say, legislators working to demolish Worcester's hospital in order to build a new one. I don't want to see WSH go, but heck, we need more hospitals desperately (for the record, some of the patients at WSH were released to some kind of halfway house in my hometown - because what we really need is sexual deviants living next to the YMCA, right?)!

I'm just wary of saying, I hope such-and-such never happens...you know?

If you watch the scene in the movie where they show the suits from this angle you can actually see the middle finger showing. So it must have been done by someone in the movie crew as a joke.

This shot reminds me of the roof tops of a small town in Brussels or England.

Leave it to the State of Massachusetts to allow an architectural treasure like this to be destroyed.
It amazes me how our tax money NEVER seems to go anywhere but into the pockets of special interests. If we want to preserve something so monumental, we must raise private funds!!!!! There is another state hospital in Medfield Ma. That has LOVELY grounds. Now all the buildings have been closed and all the barns and outbuildings have been torn down. I have no idea what fate awaits Medfield state, I only pray the land is NEVER develped!

As long as your not mildewed and peeling, your doing good!