4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

It's so sad to see what was once a beautiful instrument, and probably brought joy to many just rotting away like that. Actually, it's a shame to see the WHOLE building rotting away.

I wonder if that chair was always green.

The floor looks like crushed amythest...beautiful!

Ah the building we know to well.

Stuff always seemed to get moved around a lot at Norwich. Yeah I would imagine it was a day room and the bed was placed there after it closed.

It reminds me of that one bed at Danvers, I think someone dragged it up to the top floor of the administration building...

Correct Mike; the curtain was manufactured by H.W. Johns-Mansville Co., a major manufacturer of fireproof asbestos products. This curtain was most likely made between 1901 and 1926 judging by the company name.

I'm not sure if it would be very dangerous unless it was being cut or torn open; many asbestos products that aren't very friable wouldn't be much of a hazard if left alone.

No erica...I think you are right, it is in a different gallery...look at the trees...they look the same as the picture I saved as my desktop here at work. There was a bedside table in that shot. Residents usually didn't have rooms, they had wards, so this could have been part of a resident's ward.

love this angle

wow

Be careful around those heavy front curtains in a theatre. Back in the day some of those contained a lot of asbestos to help keep a backstage fire from sweeping through the auditorium. Not sure when that stopped in relation to the age of some of these locations, but just one more problem area to be aware of...

I guess it doesn't matter because I know this wouldn't have been a residents room.

Where did the bedside table go? Or am I thinking of a different room?

Really beautiful pic.

Heavy smoke damage?

The funny thing is for some really psychotic patients those drugs don't do shit. & ECT/EST can be really beneficial in some cases, also lobotomies are still performed in some parts of the world, I think England being one of them.. but obviously in a more humane way.