605 Comments for Marlboro State Hospital

This looks like it could be a wallpaper....hmm..

"Not enough money" is a lousy excuse. It would have taken 10 minutes with a hammer and chisel to add the patient's last (or first) name. Then at least they wouldn't have been buried under a numbered grave like a common criminal that the state is ashamed of and wishes to anonymize.

Seriously, I can't comprehend the tiny-minded Puritan moral sickness and shame that would cause an institution of doctors to toss another a long-suffering patient's body in a hole with just a number like a euthanized dog.

Hydrotherapy was supposed to serve as an adjunct to the sedatives and tranquilizers that existed in the pre-Thorazine age. The most common form was prolonged baths, in which they basically strapped down agitated patients in warm water for hours a day in the hope that it would calm them down. Catatonic patients got ice baths or ice wraps for the opposite reason. Neither one worked very well, but that's why you see so many hydrotherapy tubs in turn of the century era psychiatric institution.

More than likely it was just a bunch of idiotic kids goofing around.

Weeds-nom nom nom nom!

Zombies.... I would watch out motts. You never know..

come on haters, self expression is good and so are individual opinions. Ever hear the expression "live and let live" Not just a James bond movie or a Paul Mc Carntney and wings song.

So sad to think of all the humanity lost and forgotten/ashamed of when the had no control over it and were ostracized. Weeping for the lost souls :(

Only they had longer #'s

Reminds me of Potters Island. NY

Oh and PS condensation on the unit + age = peeling lead based paint.

Def- Hvac Old enough to remember and current enough to see tell tale sign of oldness! HEHE

wow Motts, amazing like usual. what i would do to know the real locations and take pictures and experience them myself tho, damn

sevensevenseven is my name- seven come, and seven go, and seven still remain.

i can't imagine being burried with a number instead of a name.....