I'm not convinced this place has been abandoned for 32 years, anyway, I too must comment on the ducts. I first thought they were ornamental architecture!

Mona Lisa,
If this place is in New England, you chances of "stepping on a snake" in the brush are practically nil, and your chances of stepping on either one of the two species of native venomous snakes are even closer to nil than that!

"Come out, come out, where ever you are...Thehehehee.."

"Okay.. No more miss nice angel.."

I see girls!
Long hair, short skirts!

As Motts points out, the hospital is near a river. Boy, does that moisture take its toll. The place looks like it has been abandoned for twice as long as it has!

They look most like some kind of kitchen equipment, but I'm sure they're not bread baking ovens. SHEESH! It would be tremendously time consuming for the hospital to bake its own bread. Much cheaper and easier to contract with an institutional food service company.

The mesh of the bed frames first struck me as barbed wire. I got freaked out like I was looking at something from a nazi camp. Then I pulled focus and realized what they were. Phew!

You said it, Lynne! I've never been "hospitalized," but I have been treated within the public mental health system for major depression/anxiety disorders, and I have known many others who have been hospitalized and/or treated on an outpatient basis. Mind you, if you've got the bucks for private care, you can pay for coddling. Us poor folks get pushed about and treated like we're "less than." It is a challenge to maintain your dignity at times!

Did you mean "fifth" or "filth"? I could drink a fifth and pass out in the filth!

Java, I wouldn't have noticed the tiles for the moss! I think I'm gonna call a landscaper to do a peet moss job on my bathroom so I can feel like I'm taking a leak in the woods!

I love that motts, Moss. Uh, moss, Motts! Nice carpeting!

Oh, man, does this one ever gimme the creeps! That door has a menacing presence all of its own!

"How do you like your steak, patient 3701?"

"Through the door!"

Well, Psych, this area has probably been stripped down from the way it was set up when the hospital was operating. Who knows? Looks pretty grim now, that's fer sher!

It may be high quality material, but I think the trees and the seal in the center are REALLY tacky!

Is it safe?

That time gone past when we as a nation used to invest in solid, beautiful buildings, even ones to house the mentally ill...American was really pumping strong back then!

I love the grim gray lighting...so stark but so beautiful!

Cheery toys in abandoned mental hospitals create such perverse juxtaposition!

Yes, I too noticed the beautiful lattice work on those windows. Nice to see they're still intact.

Take care scraping. Probably lead-based paint!

I have been looking for news on the Byberry campus. Anyone heard?

I'm from the area. My sister and brother-in-law just moved into a house right down the road from the Noho hospital site. I've never been in there, but I know people who have. The outer facades are sad and creepy enough for me!
It'll all be razed quite soon. The property values in Northampton are waaaay too high at this point.
I'm surprised Danvers is still standing. Property values out there are even higher. But...it takes time to raze these kinds of buildings nowadays. You know, Asbestos, environmental regs, and whatnot.

Hearing voices, eh, Mr. Motts? Back in the day, for that they didn't let you leave there, you had to STAY! Muahahaha!

Another great gallery, Motts!