4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

The illusion of authority...I have been wondering how overwhelming this must have seemed to someone coming here for the first time to be committed; especially those who were functional and capable. How frightening!

Awww...no food? What shall I do? I like food lots... :'0(

There's a lot of mesh at the place I work - in the old sections. I am going to try to blackmail Motts to come down and take some pix of my place at some point and you'll be able to see this stuff everywhere in the old sections (not in the buildings where folks currently live). However, the building I work in still has mesh like this across the windows on the upper floors. I was in working with the Chief of Nursing last night and as I looked out the window I realized that the windows of her office, which was formerly a solarium, all have mesh like this across them. We are just so used to them we forget they are there. The truth is, mesh like this is much prettier than bars and it is S-O-L-I-D, I can assure you. You couldn't ram anything through those babies.

I have to run to an appointment, but tonight I'll post a link to some historical pix of this place - old postcards and some old pix I picked up somewhere another along the way.

I need that fireplace.

I really do.

I'll guess it at about twenty years old. Fisher-Price is now a division of Mattel (the Barbie people)

Looks like a mausoleum, but I mean that as a compliment.

It's been a crisis here too, everyone has questions for you! Hope everything is ok at work.

Lovely - looks like a church.

PB Shasta, you and I know know what a REAL Fisher-Price toy looks like. This is one of them there new-fangled ones. :-)

Jebus, Motts, I take a day off for major crises at work and you sneak a new gallery in on me. I am shamed on you! >:-(

But I am going to forgive you and go look at these right now. :-)

I actually found WSP by accident as I got lost on the way to Dixmont, it looks incredible. It looked like a skeleton crew was kept on site, sounds like something that would require permission...

Clean, crisp shot of those windows. The marble is lovely. Hard to believe it has been closed for 10 years!

That woodwork and fireplace will be saved before the demolition begins, I hope. The green almost looks like jade. Gorgeous.

Made me take a second look.