505 Comments for Dever State School

I haven't been quite the same. So sure the story of my life would never change...

So have I found your secret weak spot?

And yet again, ~Me has managed to turn my happy childhood memories into something altogether different...

~Me: I once knew a guy who had lost movement from the neck down. He had a good sense of humor about it, but there were a few things he really missed being able to do... It didn't help that he had pretty hot nurses too!

Please don't use your imaginantion with ~Me.
no better yet DO! in the mind it is oh so much better, believe ~Me!

Ok, use your imagination for a minute with me. Pretend that instead of grass, it was sand or loose gravel. Add in the playground equipment that was moved to other schools when this one closed: swings, monkey bars, whatever else. Imagine the building didn't look like it had been abandoned for so long. It's not quite as depressing when you see it as it probably was, not like it is now. It actually looks a lot like my grade school did when I was a kid, and I have nothing but happy memories of that. Then again, at night I didn't live there like these kids did...

I gotta say, the windows are opaque, and only are show the top half. I would imagine that someone would be monitoring their shadows/silhouettes to make sure they are showering & not beating each other... ok, bad choice of words, but you know...

We've even got "artistic" kids like that out here now!

this place is depressing just looking at it
it makes you wonder what went on thair.
What did go on thair?

This school is like a prison

Tanya...overhead lights broken out (?)

These may have served as laundry-tubs too.

similar to colorado st gos[oya; some wings.

I love this site. I came here for the north hampton mental asylum seeing that i live near there. But i LOVE this site. It is good for a person like me that likes to look at old stuff. O and great shot by the way.

I actually worked here for 8 years before going to a community residence. When I first started in 1978 there were 1200 people living here. But my memories go much further then that since my mother was an RN here I basically grew up here. I spent weekends staying with a friend's family in one of the many doctor's homes.