Medical Building

holy shit awsome pic

fuck this is awsome

Wow, I really want to go there now.

I remember as a child sitting on thease steps. I would wait for my mother as she worked in the offices there. Memories that haunt me still. The things I have seen in that place, Things I didn't think about until I have seen this site.

This makes me want to go there and take some photos. Wow!

that was my favorite building but too bad its been demolished (2-16-06)

Yup, she's gone :(

I worked in that building, I can't believe it is gone.

Session 9

Yes, I believe this is where they walked into building and near where their cars were parked. Alot of shots from this area in the movie.

This looks somewhat like Byberry... (well, from when I used to walk passed it, it looked like this to me)

i recently saw the movie, i was so fascinated by this building. It is a shame that so much history was destroyed.

I was there, i live about 10 min from this area. Why do they have destroy such works of art like danvers state. Its a shame

Hi Jason,I hate to see a beautiful building demolished too.The memories of Danvers State Hospital will last forever.

dolts in the public sector is the only reason i can think of of why polititions would turn their backs on people in need . as well as letting these buildings fall in disrepair. if it afected their precious lives you can bet they would do something .

i dont know much about the spirit world , but this place has a aura about it , alot of the other places do as well, but there is just something about this place.

of course it would many people died there

Lobotomies R Us

I hate the red in the windows

do yall think that the inmates could of faked sick to go to the medical building. So they didn't have to stay in the Mental hospital

Patients are to hospitals what inmates are to prisons. Get it?

yha but when I lived in Tennessee they called them inmates and that was the proper way to say it. Plus they call them in my text book at Governor Dummer

i soo need to go there

One thing that's very important to remember is that not everything we read is true. Even things in textbooks.

"Inmate" is a very old, archaic term for people being treated in a mental hospital. In the decades since it faded from common usage in that sense, its meaning has narrowed to refer specifically to a person confined in a jail or prison due to either being charged with a crime or having been convicted of a crime.

Personally, I find it offensive to even refer to persons with mental illness as "they" and "them." Terminology like that reinforces the idea that people with these types of problems are somehow "Other" and that "we" who are not so affected (at least not at the present time) are different from "them" and we can therefore not be concerned about patient rights/treatment/housing. As long as "they" live somewhere away from us.

ohhalyssa, you can LIVE there if you have the money. It's condominiums and apartments now. :(

dme, thank you for all your comments. I love to read the true stories in the comment section, but the ijits who disrespect are always a pain. You and Lynne and some informed others are always a refreshing presence to balance the... ahem, pardon my pun... insanity.

Love your work, as always, Motts. And I was thinking... it must have taken a LOT of work to brick up all those windows, including all the ones in the Kirk, just to have it all torn down.

I used to live in this building after I moved out of gaebler. It was called centerpoint

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.

still think of this place all the time, when i read the local paper there is always stupid things happening on kirk bride drive , car breaks, assaults, funny thing is it pobably gives the local police more grief now than when it was abandoned.

WELL IST DEMOLISHED CUZ THERS PROB T.B IN THER

*snickers* bonner *cracks up*

when i was hired at the detox at the bottom of the hill, i had to get a tb x-ray there, it was required before working.

does anyone remember going to the green barrel on our lunch break from danvers state hosp ? I do.

my mother and father worked there for years, i remember hearing about the ward j2 alot.

don't you think they could have made a real nice hosp there, say like a mass general, plenty of parking, life flight landing, easy to get to, its on the major highway, boston is so confusing for some people like me. oh well, its done.

Why is it, danvers state didn't look scary when my folks worked there and I was there alot as a kid? now when I see pictures on line I get a eerie feeling.

Both my mom and dad worked here, my dad longer then my mom. He worked there something like 30 years before he retired and then we had moved to Northern Maine. When I was a teen I remember my dad taking me back down to Mass and we would always stop at Danvers State and dad would catch up with a few of the guys he worked with, that were still there.