505 Comments for Dever State School

They are some really beautiful pictures. It's just sad that the people who inhabited this facility were treated so inhumanely.

what an odd contraption. O.o

great shot, this could be on a cd cover or something. and i think the tagging gives the picture character.

i can't imagine being able to have any fun with that awful building staring down at me.

blood orgy.
very creepy.

i agree the outside is pretty lame, but i'm sure the inside had some gorgeous parts.

don't judge a book by its cover motts.

I don't believe lobotomies were performed in chairs. For that matter, I doubt they were performed at this facility. You never know... but my guess this was a barber chair.

Im surprised their not corroded

I bike commute through this place every day.
I have investigated many of the buildings and though about how difficult it must have been to be a patient there.
Kids have really trashed the place over the years, but it's still a unique place and a very quiet, though provoking section of my commute.

Last summer I got a treat when Hollywood moved in for a few weeks with Bruce Willis as the star. The movie is bases on the schools original use as a WWII POW camp.

Lindsey,

You're right. (the movie thing)

/ graduated from the Dever State School in 1975.
Do you have any old pictures from trhat time?

It's almost like whomever was sitting there got fed up, opened the hatch, and simply crawled in.

I actually live in the neighborhood right next to Paul Dever. Kids have been vandalizing that place for years - obvisouly, from the looks of the pictures. It's just really upsetting to me that all of those records were left out. When I was in high school a girl brought in an old patient file and was showing it all of her friends. The patient was a young girl that had ran away from the facility. She thought it was sooo funny (but not to the rest of us it isn't) Also, on a different note, a movie was just filmed there over the summer, I think it's starring Bruce Willis? But anyways....

i went to paul dever this past tuesday and had to run from the rent a cops lol we went into most of the buildings including the activity center with the bowling alley and the most interesting building was were there was a cage with a lock in the corner of a room and right on the side of it a 6 by 6 box with a door...childrens commonwealth of massachusets files saying how they were hurt and hurt eachother treated like animals locked up and tortured....random cries for help echoing through every building...on top of that it used to be a prison called miles standish where german prisoners were kept during ww2.imagine the horriblt things that have taken place in those buildings.someone should knock them down and put those souls to rest.i never believed in ghosts or anything paranormal really and still not sure if i do but i definetly believe that there is some type of evil in that place

My great cousin was sent to paul dever after his parents died.... He was fully aware of his surroundings although He was unable to walk or talk due to cerebral palsy. However he could understand anything and still does to this day. He answers you yes by blinking and answers no by moving his eyes back and fourth. luckly he was taling out of P>D. and now lives in a group home.