4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

if you clean it up and get some people to move it,you could make some money of it

This building was not for the criminally insane. In the 1950's alcoholics were kept "incarcerated" there for 90 days to "dry out." I know because I visited someone in 1954 and the conditions were worse than you could imagine.

I live in Preston and have only read and heard about this place. This town is NOT handling the property correctly in my opinion. Some of the buildings, architecture and interiors should be preserved and shared for people who find photograpy and psychaitric history interesting. I am highly educated in the medical field and in psychology and am frankly, embarrassed by the handling of this property by the town selectmen. This property- I get it- is contaminated and people should not just be allowed to roam free but if they would let people in to photograph the buildings and build some press & interest around the property then maybe they could sell it. These are historic buildings and should not be torn down.

I once stayed in the town of Norwich for a while . The story goes like this. When the faculty closed the placed as many patients as the could. the rest that had NO place to go was released on to the streets with 50 bucks given to them by the hospital. Now these patients didn't even no how to brush there teeth. If u ride threw the town of Norwich u will see the homeless out there sleeping under the bridges. Pretty sad if u ask me.

The green in this hallway is oddly pretty. Love the hallway shot and those doors make it interesting. I still can't get over all that marble in the other building. Beautiful! Thanks Mr. Motts!

I love this shot, there is just so much to see. The 'stuff' everywhere is interesting. I love the light as well.

Many members of my family were employed there. The hospital in it's "hey day" had a full working farm and dairy and bakery. Extra goods were sold to the public. The grounds also included their own power plant. Why the state was close a self supporting institution is beyond comprehension.

Actually whats written on the fireplace is Qui Transtulit Sustinet, it's in Latin which means "He Who Transplanted Still Sustains" or "He Who Transplanted Continues to Sustain", Norwich is in Connecticut the reason it's on the fireplace is because it's their state motto.

Regarding things like Alzhemir's dementia...it would be awfully sad knowing that for all the care, concern and sympathy in the world, it may never reach a person.

'zacly, Lynne :)p The scariest things are what's in our own minds that we don't know about. "Tell my brain to make it all stop."

A. S.-it's the criminal forensic building. Some individuals do have a way of acting like a charging rhinoceros.

Yup, the forensic units are likely as creepy as heavy security outside or fallen-in floors!

...octagonal tiles-in TWO colors!!

just making an educated-by-Lynne-type guess here, but I imagine if someone was paranoid delusional/schizophrenic, their own minds would make them suffer far more than the rooms that barely contained it.

considering the other precautions for these rooms, the hanging light fixtures seem ...odd.