Interesting perspective...a ray of hope, in the middle of the darkness.

This looks like it's on the backward, as indicated by the small, rectangular windows. I wish I could have helped the most chronic patients with music and art. God Bless them all!

Where were we all in June, 1979?

This light is so scary!

Such sadness...I wish I could have helped them all!

If only those walls could talk...what would they say?

Interesting roof line-it's a shame that no one has bought the place to rehab it into a new amusement park. Rocky Point has that vintage charm just like another old place called "Whalom Park-for a Whale of a Time!" Whalom Park was located in Lunenburg, MA. My mom used to take me there all the time during the summer. It was a great old park. Unfortunately, it closed, auctioned off everything, and was slated for condos. : (

This seems like a very sad place...I hope that all the people that were there are OK now, I pray for them. Were there any Art or Music Therapists employed there at the time? I know there was a Music Therapist at Met State-that seems like a very sad place too. I worked diagonally across the street at The Fernald State School as a Music Therapist. I worked with the non-ambulatory and non-verbal profound mentally retared clients. Even though they could not speak, they could still vocalize to the music and work on a variety of fine motor grasps and gross motor movements by manipulating muscial instruments. Music is a universal language, and they responded well to this medium. I love working with this population of clients.

Behemoth indeed! The scale of this monsterous piece of iron is truly amazing! For some reason, I also find these types of industrial decay fascinating. I wonder how much "torque" that thing had!

I've always been fascinated with the Bonner Building. It's a shame that this too was demolished. When it was a fully operational hospital, it served many patients. It was still relatively new-what a waste of resources! Another fairly newer hopital, St. Vincents in Worcester, was also closed. It was only about 50 years old. I can't stand waste. If you were born in the Depression, there was NO waste. My dad said there used to be an old saying back then, "Use it up, wear it out, make it due, do without." Nothing went to waste.

What's cool about DSH, is that not only does it look like a castle, but also has the architecturial elements of a large church. It's a real shame that they closed Our Lady of the Hill Chapel on the property so soon. The patients could have used some spiritual support. Also, keeping it opened could have brought on blessings to keep the whole campus opened and perserved. Prayer IS powerful-and so is the Blessed Mother and Jesus. They tried to close our church, St. Joseph's in Worcester, but with alot of prayers and rosaries, we got the church back again!

Wow! I always wondered what happened to that park! I used to go there as a kid, and I remember when they were going to close it. But I never dreamed that they would just leave it there to decay. So sad. Too bad the horses are gone-I love horses! : )

I've nick-named this building, "The Silo." It sort of looks like an oversized silo on a farm, especially when viewed from a distance! : ) The view must be very impressive while looking up from the bottom-great shots!

Thank you for showing the inside of the rotonda building-the day room. I've seen those round structures growing up, and I always wondered what they were for. The other black and white pictures of patient life is very interesting as well. Thanks.

Interesting piano! I wonder if there was ever a Music Therapist employed there in its heyday. My parents went on a tour there once, before they fully closed the building. They said that one room was painted all black! How morbid! I wonder what it was used for-insolation room, perhaps? How sad! It's nice when the walls are painted in more plesant colors, such as cheerful pastels. One time a patient escaped and landed at our house. (We lived down the street from WSH) She looked disoriented and her clothes looked dated, like that from the 50's-60's. The make-up on her face was extreme. My dad drove her back to the hospital. As a child, I was both shocked and saddened. On a more upbeat note, the Clock Tower looks beautiful when the sun is setting. I'm glad it was a fixture, sitting on that hill, for most of my life.

By the way, the "CMT" stands for "Certified Music Therapist". I was blessed that my college had a Music Therapy program. I went into it during my sophomore year. Previously, I was a Bio-pre-med major, but it really wasn't my bag. My interest was more in the Arts, so that I was able to combine my love for music and to help people at the same time.

If only those walls could talk...

Such an extremely tall, and majestic building! I love the shot of this building when it appears to stand alone, in a field, in the middle of nowhere...it looks so lonely and abandoned.

Such a sad and lonely picture...it relates the somber tone of this campus.

Such a "hauntingly" beautiful building, yet such a sad history...let's pray for all those former patients and all the mentally ill today in the world. They need our prayers. Let's also pray for the repose of the souls who died...may they rest in peace in the arns of God.

Great photo! Art Therapy is very helpful, along with Music Therapy. I am Music Therapist, and have worked with psychiatric, geratric, and mentally retarded clients. I found that the Creative Arts Therapies helped with client expression, when mere words could not. I really miss DSH-it was the most beautiful piece of asylum architecture that I have ever seen. DSH has a "haunting" atmostphere that speaks of both beauty and sadness. It is a shame that they did not rehab the entire campus, and create a therapeutic environment for clients.