3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

Very well said Nicki and Navi
I was thinking the same thing as well
My Dad used to go there all the time with my uncle ( he had a job as a cook) and were buddies with the security and were able to get into the hospital and the tunnles in stuff. I just talked with my dad the other day and told him how the buildings are gone, and whats gonna go in its place and his words were " There is no way in hell I would want to live up there"
Its just really outa controll how the towns like Danvers and Middelton, where i live, are with new homes and condos now....its just sad....all these million doller homes...The towns just changed so much

Danvers while a beauty in many respects, could be a grim looking place. Imposing, glowering, and unforgiving.

Danvers in the evening, or morning fog, has got to be amongst the spookiest visions you'll ever see.

Yes it was the room lobotomies were performed in. It was a small building off the female wing of the building. There was a small passage way from the ward to the building.

i totally lied - it was danversfanatic who posted the link. sorry.

just back on-topic, i found this pic from a link on the forum - grim angel i think put it up) of the salvage company taking this light down..seems it was the lobotomy room after all...

http://www.noreast1.co...versinstitution.html

It saddens me to know, that such a beautiful and mesmerizing piece of history is gone now... why don't people see the true value of such things... filled with so many memories... dreams... stories... some sad... and some hopeful thinking... a true tragedy...

I highly doubt the people who can *afford* to live in those condos would give a damn about what the place used to be or the history there. Just how much they can brag about their spacious bathrooms and tennis courts.

And quite frankly, I'd consider it a mark of pride to be arrested for something like that.

I drove by it yesterday. It's gone......just one big empty construction site. You can't even park your car at the bottom of the hill without security shooing you away. God forbid you show up anywhere near the grounds after dark - you will be automatically arrested. Before you would drive down RT 95 and see the building looming up on the horizon. Now all you see is the empty space and metal fence. Last I heard they are building condos on the grounds. I know some people will try and buy them thinking it will be really cool to live where the DSH used to stand, but if you grew up around here you know that the land and whatever happened in that building should not be taken lightly. It should be respected and revered.

well, i have a digi camera, and i was having issues with motion blurr, but you said you use a tripod, lol, that pretty much answered my question. But my digi camera has different lighting effects-or settings on it, and i was just curious if yours is similar and what you do

This looks somewhat like Byberry... (well, from when I used to walk passed it, it looked like this to me)

Thank you for the pics fantastic pics of Danvers State Hospital......I still live here in the danvers area and I use to live down the street from Danvers State. I have always been facinated by its history and I still am. Looking at these pics help to imagine what it was like....I hate to see them tear it down. Unfortunate as it is....it is historic.

k9mind, I am not quite sure what you are referring to. I don't use any effects on my digital camera... this shot was lit by a flashlight with the camera on a tripod, if that is what you are asking?

Lynne, two words:


You rock!

=)

The soap dispensers (that cracks me up) look sort of like monitors hanging in some sinister control room or security center.