It really is quite sad that this building may soon be gone. Actually it is beyond sad, it is staggering. I have been going to see it almost at every opprotunity since I was 12 years old, thats 15 years now. The idea that someone in the State Gov can't find a way to save it, its sheer lazyness and is in my eyes unforgivable.

The new hospital is going up fast and looks like it will be truly splendid - by modern standards - but the Clock Tower is a work of art, something you simply do not see anymore.

Motts I have to hand it to you, and I have to thank you. You have collected the largest collection of pictures of Worcester State Hospital I have ever seen, and it, it really means something to me to know that I can come here and look - and remember what it is, and what it was, a standing tribute to one of the most beautiful structures I have ever known - that soon might be a pile. Heartbreaking, it really is.

having moved to Phoenix I find that my random visits to WSH are one of the things I miss the most.

Heading up for one of my last looks pretty soon. I'm sad that we are loosing more of Worcester History, but I have to say that I am pleased that we are getting a new hospital in it's place.

ps: when I say outpatient I mean UMASS MED, not Worcester State Hospital. Nothing against the mentally ill, I just happen to not be one of them. hahahahaha, documented anyways.

I've been trying to dig through my old photo albums, they didnt put that fence up around the front steps until I was in high school.

And of course while a front porch is just a front porch, that is one of the coolest front porches I have ever been on.

As to the fellow above, Jan, I'm not going to argue with you flat out, because this is the web, you're probably not going to see this, and you are not all together wrong.... but then again...

I go to the Blvd Diner probably 3 nights a week on average, in the wee small hours, and every time I go down I do a drive by of the Hospital, because frankly, I LOVE the place at night. There is no place like it in the city.

They do not drive by every 10 minutes, its quite a large campus and they mostly patrol down around the ER and such... I've never seen more than one Statey there. The "new" hospital as you put it might be next door, but I wouldnt say Right next door. Not next door in the way a city person would think, yes you can see the new hospital while standing in front of the old one, but its not RIGHT there.

Yes, UMASS is across the street... but not the street in front of it. No no no, down that hill, is a hotel. If you were parked in front of the porch looking down at the city in front of WSH, you'd have to turn left, drive for a bit, then take a right, drive down a descent road, then take a left, drive down even farther, then you'd hit the main street (want me to name it?) then cross THAT street, and you get onto the campus campus, now drive down a ways, past 2 lots on the right and then you reach the new parking garage and THAT by the way is home base for the Campus cops....

*sigh* I hope I dont get banned for this, I didnt mention anything too specific... just it gets to me, people who list off all these unrelated facts, half of which have no substance to them.

I have been visiting this place regularly for about 9 years to just go see it. I have friends who work at UMASS, I am an outpatient at UMASS.... I KNOW the place cold. Most of my friends know the place cold. I am so excited to see it get so much attention on here, and that you took such quality pictures.

Bah, they hit a nerve, I should get some sleep. Wahoo.

Word on the street is that the saving of Worcester State Hospital isnt looking as good as it was before.

They say that it would be cost prohibitive to restore the Admin building, the cost being tacked onto the cost of the new hospital. It isnt thought that we'll be able to get the money for it.

I say we, not as anyone who has anything to do with funding, but as a Worcester resident, someone who cares deeply for this hospital and its history. My mother used to work there before the fire, working with children. Alot of people's parents used to work there I guess, but there's something about the place that speaks to me, and I have been going up for looks since I was 13. You should see it at Night!

There were a few other buildings around here that are on the edge of loss.

I am hoping that it works out. I gotta go up there with my camera and collect some memories just in case tho.

I know that this is really pretty late in the game. But the other building in the back that you speak of, was a children's ward.

Thats the building my mother was working in back in the 80's when my family had just moved to Worcester.

She was given a tour before the fire wiped out so much. I regret her memory doesnt work the same way as mine.

She does however remember that there were still chains like you'd expect for animals down in the tunnels that linked the buildings.

My father who was also given a tour, spent his time in the Air Force running a psych ward, and was also offered a job at WSH when they moved up here.

From the people who worked there, the round buildings had held cages suspended from the ceilings in the beginning of the hospital's life.

Anyways, late in the game, but still, I do love this site, especially for a better look inside our hospital. I've only been in the outer most buildings.

Thanks again,
Wizid

Hey, thanks, I live in Worcester and have visited WSH often - my mother worked with children there when I was much younger - before it got burned. I have been looking for pics of the inside for ages, you just made my night.