4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

I thought rabbit or small rodent cages when i first saw them. not only do they make great pets, but are great test subjects.

i like this.

can you feel the mossy squish between your toes?

it looks cool with the green mossy stuff on the floor.

mmm salmon...tasty

my dream fireplace.

this is a gooder.

Amazing shot.
Really hits some wounds.

I was put in an asylum from the time I was eight, until two years ago when I was fourteen. These places are awful... you're treated like a problem instead of a person. I know what it's like to put under heavy sedation, to be put in straight jackets while you scream... and I know what it's like to be stared at when you hallucinate and seem to be out of pace with the world.

Glad to be out of that hell hole. Too bad the treatment didn't last.

But enough of that. As I said. Amazing shot.

I was a paitent at NSH when I was 14 years old back in 1976. Anyone who was there and remembers me please e-mail me at jmcakc42561@yahoo.com

please let me know how you got in. i go there all the time and ive gotten inside but ive never seen half of this stuff.

Motts,
When I first stumbled across your website, (a few days ago) I had mixed feelings at first as to why someone would even think of photographing such places. Now after getting this far (alphabetically) in your galleries, it has all become extremely clear. You're not a crazed lunatic, you're chasing a history that no one wants to admit to being part of.

You have brought so many of these old places back to life once again, and they should remind society of why they were built in the first place. True - there are portions of the mentally ill who can be cared for in other environments, but there are so many others who can never fit into society in any way. They are the ones who people ignored the mere existance of while institutions like this were in their prime, and years after the De-Institutionalization they are coming back to bite the government in the ass once again.

As a major in Clinical Psychology I applaud your work, but I practiced when we didn't have the technology available today. I worked as a Patient Advocate at Fairview State Hospital in Costa Mesa California, and back then it housed some of the most severely deformed people in this country. People who back then could never leave the hospital grounds, as they would have been labeled "Freaks or Monsters"

I thank you greatly for taking the legal and often life threatening risks to bring these pictures and stories to us, and just hope others appreciate them for their value as much as I do.

Just read up on the town bulletin and an investment company bought the land and is tearing it down to erect some gawdy monstrosity, 18 hole golf course, two 5 star hotels, etc. say goodbye to the beauty of norwich. I myself have been inside every building 4 times. PLanning on documenting everything and putting videos on youtube and eveything before this beautiful place. Anyone know where the morgue is? never been able to find it.

I hope they're not all supositories

nice. you can see the guy you're crapping with.

Thank God I discovered this site no more than a week after school got out for Summer. I've already spent a few really late nights checking out these awesome pics. Thanks Motts