1,944 Comments for Worcester State Hospital

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I live in the Worcester area and have driven up to look at this. It is as menacing as it looks on film. At night it is eerie, you can almost feel the horror of what happened behind those walls.
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you ever been to ALCATRAZ motts?
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this was entrance to ward SALISBURY ! 1st locked ward. 2 right (not visable ) was entrance to rotundra ( 1st floor.
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i worked every ward in the mail service (buildings 2 right of cloch tower ) was in charge of bath house (basement ) 4 two months. observed actual labotomy preformed. e-mail ww1acepilot@yahoo.com
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I am working there during the demo process and it's kind of creepy but exiting at the same time. hay how you doing richie v.
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You do absolutely beautiful work, BUT it drives me nuts that your verticals are almost always keystoned. I think the images would have more power and be less distracting if you paid better attention to framing things squarely.. just a suggestion to make good work even more significant.
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you are awfully brave!
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it creeps me out to think of nurses hauling mental patients into this room to hose them down...probably about once a week.
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you can tell by the windows and everything that the room has been untouched for years, but the green curtains give it a creepy "just abandoned" look
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there was one purpose and one purpose only for showers like this- to shower people. Old school places like this were always very understaffed and people with mental illness or physical or mental disabilities were treated as objects rather than people they do not use communal showers like these in institutions here anymore ( aus) and thankfully they don't hang people with challenging behaviours in gunney sacks on the walls either- we've come a long way baby!
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It's Wall-E! (Go see the movie it's great.)
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I would run screaming like a little girl.
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AWESOME! How did you get the sky to look so...spooky?? Very Halloween-y.
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This shot really is the cream in this (fabulous) batch -- it's just a pity that the frame decoration around it detracts/distracts from the actual image
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My husband and I took a ride by here yesterday, there's not much left now of the old section, and what's there now won't be there much longer. :-(