1,944 Comments for Worcester State Hospital

It's too bad most of WSH is gone. At least I had the opportunity to view it for most of my life.

Great detail! This was indeed a beautiful structure!

Thank you for showing the inside of the rotonda building-the day room. I've seen those round structures growing up, and I always wondered what they were for. The other black and white pictures of patient life is very interesting as well. Thanks.

Interesting piano! I wonder if there was ever a Music Therapist employed there in its heyday. My parents went on a tour there once, before they fully closed the building. They said that one room was painted all black! How morbid! I wonder what it was used for-insolation room, perhaps? How sad! It's nice when the walls are painted in more plesant colors, such as cheerful pastels. One time a patient escaped and landed at our house. (We lived down the street from WSH) She looked disoriented and her clothes looked dated, like that from the 50's-60's. The make-up on her face was extreme. My dad drove her back to the hospital. As a child, I was both shocked and saddened. On a more upbeat note, the Clock Tower looks beautiful when the sun is setting. I'm glad it was a fixture, sitting on that hill, for most of my life.

Absolute horror. Purification by flames is maybe why there was a fire. I thought it strange that the sink next to the Barber's Chair looked new and nice and clean and everything else looked old, very eeerie. Is this not almost the same treatment of the victims of the Holocaust and Concentration camps? Science sometimes has it's fine lines on what we humans deem proper or in the name of the human conditon.

i wonder where that leads to

This one gave me chills. Something about it....

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Is the place haunted?

I don't get it!

In the greek myth it was actually a pithos, a greek jar that had a wide mouth and was used to store liquids, such as wine, or for holding food, such as grain, or for the burial of the dead. I wonder who started calling it a box. but 'pandora's box' sounds a lot better than 'pandora's pithos'.

i saw those walls before like forty years ago when my mother was there.

wow looks scary

idk but somewhere in the photo near the grate thing on the right there seems to be sumthing tht looks like boots and legs HOLY SHIT