4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

some dementia patients have very lucid moments; my dad suffered from dementia. It was such a joy to see his old self and utterly devastating when he relapsed. IT IS HELL!

theres a keyroom in one of the tunnels huundres of thousands of thems

Great photos. And hey, does anyone know any good "ghost stories" about Norwich? Just curious.

Thanks, Devon.

This room looks so amazing.

great walls :o)

haha had one of those when i was younger

Motts, thank you so much for sharing these pictures of this beautiful place. My husband & I drove by it a few months ago and only recently found out that it was Norwich S.H. I have to agree with "Deranged" that it is a shame to allow these beautiful places to fall into disrepair. It's a pity a developer doesn't turn places like this into apartments or condos such as they are doing to our old mills in R.I. Thank you again so much.

Yeah that room was interesting... too bad all the keys to Salmon are gone.

I'm assuming those bottles were awaiting being filled and given to the patients in the out-patient program that was once run by the hospital. But then again, what the hell do I know. I do know that there is a room there with thousands of keys and a key-cutter where they used to cut their own keys for all the doors in the hospital.

Here is an interesting bit of info about NSH...Connecticut's most recently executed inmate, Michael Ross, who was a rapist and serial killer, back when he was at large, snatched one of his victims, a local girl nearby and took her onto the hospital grounds, in the woods behind the baseball diamond and raped and killed her and left her body there. Creepy...

hey i is me agian ok i really do and they are making it an amusment park but not yet there are reallly not shure my twon has to vote on it and then it may go through but the town needs the monney for skools and other crap so well i would hate to see it go and what some people wrote about some of it well first the need to see if for them self and i see ifever day and i am now in 9th grade it closed when i was in kindergaredn and i can reamber going there and singing to the people there it was creppy and i have 2 of the chiars that were ones in the hospital and i have a desk to i have it in my room ok well it really pisses me off when ppl try to hurt what history leaves behind i have been looking at pictures for the last 4 or 5 years of this place and there are some pretty nice pictures MOTTS is there a way you can emial me at Nikkict13@yahoo.com thanks

Great shot! Gives you a good idea of the grandeur of this hospital. There is a beautiful large bronze plaque on the floor right to the left just out of view in this shot commemorating the opening of the hospital.

I know whats going on I love 5 minutes away from the site of this place i really dont want it to go i think it should be a musem

Thanks, Kate!

i am doing my family tree and have found out this week my great grandfather died in whittingham mental hospital in jan 1929, i am quite upset by it because i cannot find out where he is buried at the moment as he lived in fleetwood and his family still lived there at the time of his death, my mum knew nothing about this and i am not sure my grandma did as she died when she was only 25 herself in 1943, i cannot rest until i know where he is buried as it is very upsetting as to how he went to whittingham, if he is buried there i am lead to believe the graves are all in bits, i would love to visit his grave wherever he is sometime and maybe go take look at the hospital too,anyone with any info i would love to hear from them, great site and ive read the comments too,
take care