3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

As you look at the picture of the building. On the left side of the shot. The top floor. A patient (before I started working there) a patient jumped from the 6th floor solarium window , and hit the ground beside the building. About a 75 foot drop at least. I know this, because I was related to two of the employees on duty, and involved with the situation.

I came across this site at work a couple weeks ago and wanted to get involved, but I was blocked.. Mr Motts, you are one of the most talented artists I have ever seen, and would not only buy a book of your work, I would go out and promote it. Beautiful work. Thank you.

yes that piece of debri does look like an old mans face. how strange!

aye. it does look like a little girl standing there holding a railing?

the shadows on the roof top are really cool. very nice picture

This shot looks as if a storm is just about to roll in. like an october afternoon.

Wow. this is one of my favorite pictures. i keep coming back to this one. i just found this site. very nice. and yes i notice the jelly bean man under the stairs.

I just got done watching Session 9. Wow what a building! its sad they are tearing it all down. What a pretty place.

Well she could have more than $700,000 if my other aunts left her their small fortunes. As I said above she could have over a million.
We haven't spent any of her money but the New England family has. I don't think they are spending too much--I think they have spent it all and now have no futher use for the old woman.

She has 700,000. Hope your family isn't spending too much, if it's Massachusetts the state is going to want a hefty part of her assets to fund her care. Any way your GA has the right to get a second opinion about her mental staus evaluation. Contact the AG by all means. Or find a lawyer that specializes in Elder Affairs practice and cosult with them.

thanks Lynne,
We are going up to visit her soon. Do you think that if we call ahead of time the AG will be able to help?

Call the attorney general's office in the area and ask for some assistance.

Thanks Big Ed,
Yes, they do have Power of Attorney but they certainly DO NOT have her best interests at hand. All that we have been able to find out is that they won't let her have a phone in her room because every chance she gets she talks about what is being done to her. Very few people have spoken to her within the last six months but those who have said that she has sounded totally sane and desperate to "Escape from this hellhole." Her words Lynne please don't get mad I'm just quoting. :-)

What a mess right? All I know is that her money is disappearing because all "the kids" (aka nieces and nephews and their spouses) are spending her money like it was growing from a tree.

They have my Great Aunt listed as demented so even if she rages on about being treated poorly the family just puts it down as the ramblings of an elderly lunatic. We have tried to call her niece a few times but she hangs up the phone on us. Now she won't even answer it because they know we are trying to help my Great Aunt.

When I say "us" I mean NY family versus New England family by the way.

Okay now here is the really screwed up thing--I told you this was a small town right? Well, the doctor who diagnosed my Aunt as being senile (my Great Aunt's nieces husband) is one of the towns rich boys.

"Family doctor" as I will call him here is the son of a powerful town politician who opened the nursing home my Great Aunt is now imprisoned in back in the 1980s. He's dead now so "family doctor" runs the place and rules with an iron fist. That is why they moved her into that nursing home, so family can keep an eye on her. Also that is why I think no nurses or anyone will speak up for her--they are afraid of angering the boss. Did I mention that the other doctors in the nursing home are "family doctor's" brothers, cousins or VERY close friends from childhood?

Basically my Great Aunt has enough money for everyone involved to be feeding off of. We know that she had about $700,000 in her bank account alone. What's more, her three older sisters (all dead now) also never married, had no children and were very wealthy so when they died they left her all their money. My Great Aunt could have well over a million for all we know and everyone involved with putting her away have got a share of it from the sound of it. Again, she's my Great Aunt--it's my Mom who's really close to her because Great Aunt was good to Mom when she was a kid and would go for visits.

I know we aren't supposed to have conversations on these threads but I hope this is left up. If this is what is happening at a nursing home can you imagine some of the things that went on in these asylums bak in the day?

Again I'm not trying to argue about staff or anything with Lynne I just think my Aunt's case is that one in a million example of what can go wrong with living systems. The fact that this is a small town situation doesn't make this any better.

It's just sickening that this could actually happen! And to such a sweet woman too!

Such a beautiful building. Sorry that is it gone..

After all these years to have the calendar still on the wall! That is something else.