1,944 Comments for Worcester State Hospital

Do tell more PLEASE!

Word on the street is that the saving of Worcester State Hospital isnt looking as good as it was before.

They say that it would be cost prohibitive to restore the Admin building, the cost being tacked onto the cost of the new hospital. It isnt thought that we'll be able to get the money for it.

I say we, not as anyone who has anything to do with funding, but as a Worcester resident, someone who cares deeply for this hospital and its history. My mother used to work there before the fire, working with children. Alot of people's parents used to work there I guess, but there's something about the place that speaks to me, and I have been going up for looks since I was 13. You should see it at Night!

There were a few other buildings around here that are on the edge of loss.

I am hoping that it works out. I gotta go up there with my camera and collect some memories just in case tho.

Looks like somone backed a riverboat into the building.

Looks like a series of drawers, like you should be able to push the red parts back into the stone.

I don't know why but the lighting on the dials reminds me of the coin-operated robot fridge thing in that episode of Wallace and Gromit where they go to the moon.

Wow, this reminds me of when I got about ten of the biggest capacitors I could find, then wired 'em all up backwards to my power supply. I put the red wire in the black socket and the black wire in the red socket. The result was they all blew up one by one like a little machine gun! It sure scared my cat.

I could just imagine a person in this shot ... look up at us from the bench at the VERY back. Hair matted, clothes torn, sanity gone. Oh how dramatic of me.
*mental slap*

When I was a kid, my dad use to work @ the New state hospital next door, so this place is not new to me at all. In fact, the city bus from where we lived (very close by on Wigwam Hill) would pass through the property and the was never a shortage og Pheasants grazing on the property. As far as anything "spooky" that I have heard aboutt his place, my dad once told me he took a tour inside one day and they found shackles on the walls where they would chain the patients up. Cree-py!
Nice pics BTW.

jealousy and envy reign mr. lame

thats where they kept the zyklon b

=8-o

these pictures are lame. just because your a graphic designer doesnt mean your a photographer. sorry.

Steady Lynne. Slow, deep breaths... :-)

I've been inside that Building before (Recently while it's all boarded up & shit...) I've researched it a lot too...my father works near there in Worcester & my aunt was admited to the new Worster State Hospital.....an old guy who said he's worked @ worcester state since the mid-70's told me that it was originally built (as an insane asylum) in the 1860's, when they used to perform serious surgical brain alterations to try & modify behavior of people & Lock some of the really bad-bad-insane people with no hope of recovery in chains to the wall in the cement Dungeons down in the Basement of that place....

the only things that scared me in that place when I was in there was the lead paint flaking off of EVERY WALL...