4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

Is not that 'observation window' a bit high? You would have to be very tall to be able to access it.

(steps up on soapbox)
Why do we tear these places down and corral the lambs out onto the streets? Is it so that they will be consumed by the wolves? Out of sight, out of mind? It seems to me that they are tearing these buildings down in an effort to say "Inhumane treatment of humans? Where? You cant prove it!"
Do they not realize that if the cover the mistakes of the past, that we are bound and destined only to *shudders* relive them?

It still lends to the fact of a confined patient. The room is so small, that if you place equipment in here, the staff would not be able to get around with a loose patient. There appears to be a door in the wall at the head of the bed. To keep medical supplies? or a Closet for the patient's belongings? hmmmm.....

That large contraption seen above the light, is that a heating duct of some sort?

The hanging lamp gives me the idea of maybe these rooms for the ones that had to be heavily medicated and maybe secured to the iron railings of the beds. That would explain the fact that there isn't a safe way to feed these patients if they were strapped down, in strait jackets maybe and on I.V.'s

If these rooms were to store the 'patients' that were extremely violent, why is there not a slot to slide food into? How did they feed them? If opening the doors subjected the Staff to injury. Unless these were a kind of Solitary Confinement?

After the cool 'institutionalized' (pardon the unmeant pun) of the Administration Bldg, this one looks like it was thrown together in a hurry!

Motts,
It looks alot like those turn-of-the-century fireplaces that wanted to give the appearance of a woodburning fireplace yet had gas offices for those plastic log things. (sorry about the run-on sentence) Did you happen to see any Gas attachments? Also in the upper right hand corner of the wall, the circle caught my attention. Maybe one of those rounded pictures of the founder hung there? Or the current Governor's Picture in a rounded frame?

The marble staircase reminds me of alot of old Theatres around the Milwaukee area. Unfortunately they have torn down most of them.
*Why do men progress only at the cost of history?*

David... is that where the term 'SafeSex' came from? :-)~

Maybe a 'waiting area' as the visitors came to see patients? Just a thought....

Could that possibly be a water spot high on the wall? Maybe the roof leaks? It would be a shame to see this place razed. The beautiful entrance, windows and marblework, would make a better Hotel. That way it could be put to a happier use.. since we can already guess the sadness these walls have witnessed!

Salmonella,
Maybe for the children that came to see their parents?

Chicks were used for testing varius drugs antibiotics etc...sure look like they would be used for something of that nature...the very kind of metal..that galvanized and regular steel look more agricultural. Stainless steal would have been used at the very least a porcelin coated steal for anything that was to be steralized. An HVAC application seems unlikely because of the structures size any filtration units would be much larger

well if you think that in the last century women who got pregnant were considered insane and put into these places and they were also breaking the law anyone could have been in one of these caged rooms!!

i have been locked in a similar room before... its not any fun, lynn is right, when you're in there, you dont want any company, your troubles and issues are enough to crowd the room... :(