4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

Amazing those are not broken. I like how the 2 larger ones are sitting up on that heater. Very good pic, probably my favorite of the new group of pics.

Mr Motts, please do come and take pictures at the old Western Pennitentury here in Pittsburgh. It is over 100 yrs old and closed recently. Who knows how long it will be there. It would be a great find for you!

It is sickening they want to build a money making place like an amusement park over the area where people suffered and died. That is like building one over top of a civil war battlefield. Absolutely no respect for the people who lived in these places.

Well, THAT was a little rude, Chipy. :(

This site is going to cost me my job......!

Yup Mr. Dobi photographed the place many times in years past, and I'm glad he captured it when he did. He is on my links page under "New England Ruins" and I've had the pleasure of shooting the "Morrison State Asylum" with him last summer.

Oops, after clicking on Institutionalized, you can choose Norwich State to view the pics. This site does not disclose locations, either.

Motts, I found a site that has 16 shots of this hospital. It has one of this stairwell with the lights intact. Click on Gallery, then Institutionalized. It is pic # 12 of 16...(They have no comments section...boring site...)
http://www.dobi.nu/photos/

Is that a night stick, or a leg to a bed.....
: o !!!!

Motts, did you notice if these had electrical cords coming out of them? The unit on the lower right has a grille on top, at the back. If they had some kind of low-wattage warmers, could they have been bird coups? Just a guess....

Yeah, I've only ever seen the grated doors in forensic mental hospitals, too.

A PIRATE DANCE, maybe???

I could see a patient sitting on the bed looking out the window, and in a breif moment watching them you would question why they're there and why you aren't.

Yeah, this room is definately bigger than my first dorm room in college...

Family crest maybe?