4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

Tony,

Norwich Hospital built additional patient buildings during the 1950s and 1960s. As they built the new ones they just shut down the old ones. You ought to have a combination of new and old buildings there, just like we have where I currently work. If our place was shut down today, in 20 years if you went through you wouldn't know for sure which buildings were used when, so you would also see a jumble of different designs and materials.

they're used to hold birds/chickens...and feed them I believe..

It looks as though someone was trying to escape by prying the bars and cages of the windows.

Small Solarium eh?
Or maybe I've been spoiled with bi ones for so long..=)

Sketch, I think I have that disease...
Winter depresses me, to some extent.
I don't think I'd hospitalize myself...
well at least not for that alone
=)

Lynne-The justice bringer of mental institutions..saving reputations everywhere!

Donna,

Most of the folks who would be in an isolation room would not be "poking their fingers through the door looking for human contact and affection". To be in an isolation room means you had almost always been fairly out of control and needed to be somewhere to cool off where you couldn't hurt others. Another reason for being in an isolation room was to be in a "safe" place for someone who, in the days before antipsychotic medications, had to wrestle with their own inner demons during a frankly delusional episode. To someone in the throes of a such a psychotic episode, most other people are looked at as being dangerous or having bad intentions and these folks often don't want to be around anyone else because most, if not all, other people are seen in a very negative light.

People who were depressed or suicidal were NOT placed in these rooms.

Mini Danvers definitely.
Danvers...OH *sobs*

"The act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side." Juxtaposition

hey Java-turn your caps lock OFF...
THe marble is very beautiful, i'd love to look up close at it. In my kitchen we have it, and there fossils in the countertop, I can only imagine what y ou could find in there!

It looks like a swirl on the wall, kind of...

Juxtapositioin?? Definition please!!

It saddens me to hear another place like this will be leveled for something like an amusement park. As for Wally World (Wal Mart), I am happy to say I haven't shopped in there in over 4 years now.

Grace, mine was typoed for a long time before i caught it, so don't feel to bad.

Is the marble real?