1,382 Comments for Dixmont State Hospital

hey do u think even though the building is being torn down that the spirtis will stop haunting the building. Their grave is being destroyed basically. Most likely the wal mart will not have any buisness. It will be haunted and the spirits will have pay back

so u know when it will be all gone... i was planning on doing my senior project there.

BustedTrespasser - the safe is located in the basement, underneath administration. I believe it was towards the very front.

He put the "Usual" into "The Usual Suspects."
Discuss.

PS I love the film, apart from Pete Postlethwaite's Indian accent... if that's what it is.

BustedTrespasser
Sorry to hear about your friends mom.Just wanted you to know i was not irritated talking to you,just cautious.Glad you guys didn't get in any trouble.

my link is on the main page of this site but it is still undergoing construcktion sorry should be up soon after xmas!!!

BustedTrespasser No problem. Apology accepted. I was looking at something on the 2nd floor at the window when you saw me.
The superintendent of the job was there due to the fact that someone earlier in the day stole a dump truck and wrecked it pretty good, and let it roll down a hill and in to a building and fall half way through it. They did something like $20, 000 damage to it.
I know there was a few other workers on the move there that day working up on the hill behind the dining hall. I think what happened was the superintendent saw someone and he told the cops to start to question people because of what had happened.
I have no problem with people exploring buildings as long as there not causing damage to them, or the site that they are on. That is what gets everyone in trouble and the cops involved.
B T the last part of you comment about the messing around with the equipment could not be any truer.
I haul and operate a verity of different equipment for different companies and they all due different thing with there equipment at the end of the day. Some just shut them off and some due a little more creative things with them. I don't want to say because I don't want to give anybody any ideas.
The bottom line is don't mess with the equipment, don't destroy the site or the buildings. If you do get stopped corporate with the people who stopped you. There just doing there job, and if you want to go back make sure you then get permission the whom ever is in charge.

It was on this site that you saw the chair that you wanted. I should have gotten it for you!

I think that's a great idea. I do wish the developers would open these places up for some public bidding on any "junk" that's left before they tear the buildings down. I would give my eye teeth for an old chair that I saw, I think it was on this same site.

I mentioned elsewhere that I currently work at an older institution (1911 was the grand opening) and I am working with a group to set up a museum, etc., for our 100-year history celebration. We are looking all over grounds (350 acres) for anything we can salvage for the museum; unfortunately, unlike many of these other sites, the folks where I work have public auctions every year or two and they sell off all the unneeded furniture and equipment as it ages. Brings in a few bucks and gets all the "junk" out of the way. Problem is, what is "junk" today is "retro" in 30 years and "antique" in 75 years. :-(

I thank you very much on behalf of her friends and family. I am informed that her condition has not changed much since she was taken to the hospital, but I know that stroke recovery can be a very long process. She's a very strong willed person, so I'm hoping that she will regain at least somewhat of a normal life.

I should add that my friend used Google Earth to explore the Dixmont site from satellite photography and she said it was pretty cool to see everything up there from that view.

No offense taken, Raymond. It's easy to over-generalize just about anything.

Anyone happen to know if there are any resources on the web that have a site map of the whole Dixmont complex? I think it would be really cool to see a visual representation of all the things that this facility was composed of. I know most info is focused on the Kirkbride, but the site was 407 acres in total and Reed Hall comprised only a fraction of one acre. There is so much to this site. There are also a lot of things that were part of the Dixmont complex that are on land that was not sold to WalMart and will still probably be there for quite some time even after the WalMart is built. It would be nice to know where some of this stuff is.

There should also be more on the cemetery. I've seen websites where people have been asking questions about it because they have loved ones buried there and they are concerned what will happen to the graves. I know the 1 acre cemetery still belongs to the State and won't be harmed by the construction, but these people have the right to more information about their relatives that are buried there.

I thank you for bothering to look it up. I've lived in the Pittsburgh area all my life and never heard of the official story on the spelling.

Can we start a "save the safe" campaign? This thing should be kept in a local museum or something. With all the new local history centers opening up mostly commemorating the steel mills, I think that one of the local museums could easily put together a very interesting permanent display dedicated to Dixmont. It was a place that was a national (and possibly international) pioneer in mental health treatment that revolutionized that medical discipline. I found a few websites with burial records for the Dixmont cemetery and there are people from several European countries buried there. This place had to be well known internationally in its' day and should be remembered as more than just the old crumbling building that used to be there before WalMart was built.

Yes I did, thank you. I was watching the videos they posted there and checking out some of the pic galleries. I really wish I had the chance to explore more of the property. This place really had to be something when it was in operable condition.

The Dixmont end times is nearing...