1,382 Comments for Dixmont State Hospital

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Some of the stairwells can and seem to be very creepy. There are some I will not use. In this building.
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Yeah, I've only seen a few, here's one http://www.opacity.us/image1989.htm.
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i live not to far from dixmont and it is sad to see the demo. crew there, everyday as i go to work i drive by on route 65 and wander what it would be like now if someone had bought it and restored it for patients again.
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Interesting...
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Hey, an arm or a finger or two would be an interesting find too... ;)
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I don't think i've seen a set of morgue freezers with a manufacturer name or logo on the front. Motts, have you? Just a weird observation of mine. Not that there would be a need to display a logo, I find the absence unusual nonetheless.
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Wow, some parts of Dixmont are pristine, and some parts like this one are so decayed, quite the contrast.
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Puzzled by the hinges on both sides. How could it be opened?
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Guys, im seeing zig-zags on the floor
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in the time that dixmont was operating it was common practice to put patients in seclusion room for a short time for the protection of themselves and others when they were having a episode of violence you must understand that in those days the medication they used had adversed effects and would in some cases make the behavior worse before it was better also those rooms were used for watching patients that were possibly going to comit sucide
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Ron, you think of the most off-the-wall stuff. You fit right in around here.
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Wowza! I just found some stories on Muscatatuck - it closed after I left, so I never saw these:

http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15817
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15942
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15837
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15832
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15845
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15818
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15886
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http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15929
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15943
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Motts, was that a dumbwaiter or display case carved into the wall?
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a Cumezekyama wrapped in pretty asbestos paper..
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Most large scale residential mental health facilities of the last 50 to 100 years were actually built with government funds.