4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

Motts was there a padded room there?

I watched the parnormal celb project on vh1 over the weekend and the place looked trashed. I saw the staircase and it had all kinds of debre on it . Im so glad I got to see it through Motts eyes .

My father worked in the Kettle building for 15-20yrs before they closed the hospital down. This shot, as was explained to me by a co-worker, is a chick incubator. As everyone who is familiar with NSH, it is a huge campus, and was pretty much self-sustaining. Appearently they had their own dairy farm, powerhouse, laundry facilities, and also had employee efficiancy apt.'s as my dad stayed in one during my parents divorce. I can remember the huge gardens as my dad would take me to pick up his paycheck.

I'd say 1904 to the 1940's-50's. This facility had two forensic psych buildings, Salmon and AWL, located on either side of administration (kinda like a backwards Kirkbride plan). The rest of this facility was used for general psychiatric and rehab. Not every psych hospital has a criminal psych unit; in fact I believe most do not have one.

Does any one know the year of those postcards were taken? And was this facility for the criminaily insane or does every facility have a seperate wing for crimanial insane......

This is, so far the prettiest place and in good condition.

Lynne ,you have a way with words.

wheres some ghost pics

I hate to see this beauty die.
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Amazing photo...and amazing fireplace. Can't believe what good condition it is still in.

Amazing architecture in this structure...beautiful...wish modern architecture was this beautiful and well constructred.

Ah, Marty, you old softy! ;-)

P.S. Hugs to Jo, Sian, and J.R.

To the good doctor, for whatever it's worth, this rant ranks number one on my list. Love ya!

the state , goverment , human dolts are the problem not a curious person.

he , corey may be only curious why all the banter.