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actually looks like a cool house to live in

Yeh. Would live in that house any day..
How come its abandoned?

Residences like this were probably built by the state as housing for administrators, doctors, etc. and were perhaps leased. When the state closed the facility the residences were left empty.

amazing, how many homeless would give a leg to live there now.

I would love to live in such a beautiful structure. I mean these places were built to house the sick, and a lot of times, let's face it, they became homes for everyone.
In Danvers they used to allow poor people to live there for 1 month, free room and board. I assume that happened at many hospitals.
These places were amazing, and it's a shame to see them falling apart.
I would LOVE to buy one of these hospitals and renovate them.
But it's costs so much, you'd need to get them right when they closed. I hope someday to buy a small hospital that closed in Haverhill not too long ago, and shouldn't cost too much. I'm sure the other hospital on the ground will close soon enough, it's already old, and has a reputation for malpractice.
The building isn't nearly as beautiful as this one, and it's in a residential area, but I would love to take it over and renovate it.
Same thing with the mill buildings in the cities around me.
Currently my father and I buy run-down houses, restore them, and sell them again, and it's always fantastic to see them renovated, and to go through the layers of paint and wall paper, to see what's been there, and to imagine what when on.
I can just imagine what it would be like to renovate a hospital...

l0l funny you say about homeless wanting to live there l0l...theres actually a place right by the pilgrim state/ mansions/ houses lol right on crooked hill rd...

The buildings looks like they were built by the same buiders that built Mitchel Field Military Base. Which also looks like it is going to die soon.

awesome structures that should be preserved, so much history too behind them.

That was a beautiful house but a little bit scary to live in, I lived in it until 1983, when my mom retired as a psychiatrist from Pilgrim. People should realize it borders probably the worst drug and crime areas of Brentwood. It did have some nice moldings & a crazy basement that supposedly had tunnels that led to the patients wards...like I said it was a bit scary & lonely growing up there as a little girl.

It's almost a shame these houses are abandoned. They have a certain beauty to them. Though I myself know I couldn't live in a house that once belonged to doctors and their families who were treating the mentally ill. My imagination would make me crazy.

I actually live in Brentwood and if you go by where the new plaza is,there they are just standing cold and subdued in time right next to a lively plaza.

It is saddening and every time my family drives in back of the city bank park around past the soccer/flag football fields,we past by it.And every time we pass by i swear i feel like time is going so slow and chills go up my spine.

The sad thing is my grandmother(who is not dead at all,thank god) used to work there,i asked her about it and she said just one sentence "it was frightening,and that practically summed up what the patients felt and what PSH was.yet i'm pretty astonished that right next to pilgrim state, lies another hospital for the crazed,which i believe is pretty much a recreation of PSH.


This such a pretty building though every time i walk by it,i feel how some many patients felt...depressed and subdued