1,944 Comments for Worcester State Hospital

I used to work at WSH. The Clock Tower is one of my favorite places. I love the Gothic beauty of it all. This was a working hospital, they had animals and farmland. Many babies were born at WSH and some were institutionalized from birth. I am hoping that they are able to build a new hospital using some of the old. It's a wonderfully historic place, not creepy at all! Lots of stories to tell with this one!!!

omggg!! this is incredible

holy shit!

this is sick. i want to get inside real bad and take pictures for photography. these are amazing

I've lived in Worcester my entire life and I had never been up to the old asylum until yesterday. I had heard stories abut it all through school and had never been to see. Now that I am a photography student, I have started a project attempting to record the few remaining landmarks that haven't changed in my hometown during my lifetime (as I remember them, anyway). I am so insanely curious about the insides of this amazing piece of eerie history. Just walking around the grounds with my 35mm in the warm (for March!) evening got me all excited thinking about the potential shots in the abandoned darkness....I'm also curious how you had managed to get into the place, since the building is condemned. I know it's breaking a few rules and certainly isn't safe, but that's what art pretty much is.

*sigh*

wish I could explore.

It is so sad to see the pictures of the run down
condition of the place where I spent my youth.
My father was the chief supervisor of the male
side of the hospital. I lived in the house at 269
belmont st it was called prospect cottage
from 1922 to 1940 I knew every inch of the
place I was one of the alter boys for sunday
mass, attended the movies on monday
nights ,roamed the acres of land witnessed
the good that was accomplished there at the
time. ( very,very,sad)........M Scannell

This Building need to be fixed the right

ps: when I say outpatient I mean UMASS MED, not Worcester State Hospital. Nothing against the mentally ill, I just happen to not be one of them. hahahahaha, documented anyways.

I've been trying to dig through my old photo albums, they didnt put that fence up around the front steps until I was in high school.

And of course while a front porch is just a front porch, that is one of the coolest front porches I have ever been on.

As to the fellow above, Jan, I'm not going to argue with you flat out, because this is the web, you're probably not going to see this, and you are not all together wrong.... but then again...

I go to the Blvd Diner probably 3 nights a week on average, in the wee small hours, and every time I go down I do a drive by of the Hospital, because frankly, I LOVE the place at night. There is no place like it in the city.

They do not drive by every 10 minutes, its quite a large campus and they mostly patrol down around the ER and such... I've never seen more than one Statey there. The "new" hospital as you put it might be next door, but I wouldnt say Right next door. Not next door in the way a city person would think, yes you can see the new hospital while standing in front of the old one, but its not RIGHT there.

Yes, UMASS is across the street... but not the street in front of it. No no no, down that hill, is a hotel. If you were parked in front of the porch looking down at the city in front of WSH, you'd have to turn left, drive for a bit, then take a right, drive down a descent road, then take a left, drive down even farther, then you'd hit the main street (want me to name it?) then cross THAT street, and you get onto the campus campus, now drive down a ways, past 2 lots on the right and then you reach the new parking garage and THAT by the way is home base for the Campus cops....

*sigh* I hope I dont get banned for this, I didnt mention anything too specific... just it gets to me, people who list off all these unrelated facts, half of which have no substance to them.

I have been visiting this place regularly for about 9 years to just go see it. I have friends who work at UMASS, I am an outpatient at UMASS.... I KNOW the place cold. Most of my friends know the place cold. I am so excited to see it get so much attention on here, and that you took such quality pictures.

Bah, they hit a nerve, I should get some sleep. Wahoo.

To whom it may concern: There is NO way to get into this building. First it is unsafe. The floors are crumbling, I wouldnt want to fall in there and die. Second the U-Mass campus police drive through about every 10 minutes along with the Mass State Police it is a Mass property building after all.
The "new" hospital is right next door it is a big boxy ugly hospital. U-Mass medical is across the street. Westboro State is still in operation.

The way these people are treated is so evident of the bathrooms.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

There is no way that I would take a shower in that freak of a room !!!

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

This a CREEPY photograph of the building !!!

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

This clock tower looks like it will sink into the building itself.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

How did you get in there? I went and everything was boarded up.