1,927 Comments for Pilgrim State Hospital

Why do tattered curtains always look creepy? I guess they are a reminder of "home" amid neglect and decay.

Another cool play of light and shadow by Motts the marvelous photographer!

How far down is the drop from that catwalk?

This shot reminds me of Danvers.

I knew a woman who got sent to Pilgrim in the 1980s after a suicide attempt.
She had no money and no family to speak for her at the time, so she was just sent there, transfered in the middle of the night
She describes a feeling of stark terror on seeing this facade as the car escorting her entered the campus.
She was on one of the wards for about a month until being discharged upon case review.

It's the same old sun that warms the room today as fifty years ago!

I wonder if any of those nurses are still alive. The one standing foremost has an elderly posture, but a few of the seated ones look like they may have been rather youthful.

That's a cool shape for a tub. I'd like to have a bathtub like that, only I'd prefer porcelin!

Hydrotherapy is use of water to treat symptoms. In mental hospitals it was used to treat psychiatric symptoms.
Soaking the patient in a warm bath was thought to have calming effects. Wrapping a patient in cool, wet cloths or running cool water over pulse points (wrists and ankles) was believed to lower body temperature, calm nerves, and slow pulse rate. Things like that. These were palliative (symptom only ) treatments at best, and at worse were abused for punishment and deterrant. If you act up, you might get plunged into a tub of ice water again , and we wouldn't want that now would we?

Ironic how the building itself is dead and being "autopsied."

I'm not all too sure, they might have been unstable and ready to collapse.

Why were the stacks removed?

My mother was emitted into pilgrim state less then 20 years ago, i will never go back

PARECE LA UNA NEVERA

wat is hydotheapry

Oh yea, another great place to go.

Agreed. A number of the Pilgrim exterior shots look like fake miniatures instead of the real thing, which is even weirder.