1,382 Comments for Dixmont State Hospital

In the middle

They are massive, these halls, you could get three or four beds alongside one another! And I'd love those floors in my house (someone 'modernised' it by removing all the Victorian boards and replacing them with chipboard... grrrrr!

Yeah this shot screams 'Byberry' to me...

I sure hope those brown stains are rust :-O

I have a warrior's heart, a poet's tongue, and an artist's eye.... all in jars on my bedside table lol!

It almost looks like a pew, but looking at the way it's bent I doubt it's wood. I'd suggest it's the innards of the radiator / heater, the cover to which lies to the right-hand side....

Thanks all. I was feeling particularly poetic the other night, happens occasionally ;-). And Neefer, do you *really* need another reason to boycott Wal-Mart?

Lynne, that's a great set of links, and an interesting insight into the downside of de-institutionalisation. Shame it was taken over by the military... I wonder if there will be anything left for urban explorers when they've finished their exercises on the campus?

For me it's the vegetation that makes the difference. Incredible how Nature takes over.

I blame One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and those pictures of abuse from Byberry and Pennhurst (1940s and 1960s respectively) which people think still goes on. Didn't Byberry have 4000 people in it at one point, and Pennhurst 2,500? Overcrowding isn't the word... but I'm sure that de-institutionalisation has massively depleted figurs like that!

Big corporations have no time for history. I've seen that time and again. All the likes of Wal-Mart want to do is concrete over the world with their corporate identity, they're not for sharing it witht he relics of the past. I hope that eventually we all order groceries on line and have them delivered, then these huge superstores and their endless parking lots will be mere dinosaur stables, for the next generation of Motts to explore...

The soap dispenser crack lives on :P! (Some people probably are really confused, right now!)

Beautiful details. Such a waste to tear it down. One more reason to boycott Walmart.

whew, thanx for the explaination Lynne, I thought I took the wrong meds again.

A dead place

My favourite of this series