Tower Panorama

Motts, im speachless, thank you very much, now im dizzy.

Wowza! Great pic!

And anna, you are right! To quote a former student, "Miss Lynne, I'm frowin' myself up!"

Motts, that "glass" room to the left, is that the roof of a solarium or greenhouse? This is so wonderful.

BONER!

It's...a...boner room? What the hell is a boner room?

[heavy sigh . . . . . . . ]

I really don't know which one of you girls to smack first. :-)

That water tower *rules*.

Whereabouts is this place in relation to Boston?

I love these kinds of shots!

Geez, that darn admin....they got everything. Fireplaces, skylights, great views of birds
a-soaring!

Beautiful views from there Motts!

Lynne, you're crackin' me up again!!

Awesome!

Don't trip!!!!!

check out the bricks that look like they might fall any time...probally been like for many moons..lol...great shot .....thanks

I am sorry for this comment, but how can americans be so ignorant and destroy a beautiful place like this, with so much history, here in my country we would not dare destroy something like this, it's part of history, yours is a strange country, you want a walmart or simple apartments instead of this building, I'm so angry right now and I am not even american, but I love all of you guys who can appreciate this beautiful place.

wow it kinda of ironic how you can see that is there is bricks about ready to fall. making it look like the building has not been in use for 100's of years but it really hasnt been that long because you can still see the yellow parking lines painted in the parking lot!!

This shot is amazingly awesome. It knocks my socks off!

Breathtaking!

Your work is very beautiful. Now i must go out, explore and shoot!

Thanks for the inspiration!

did you ever go in the room with all the glass skylights?

i live like 10 miniutes from this place and this picture is the first time ive ever got a good look at it

I feel I must comment on this incredible building. I had the privledge to work for Danvers State Hospital . Just for information purposes the Kirkbride building had been vacant since the early 1970's, not 1992. Patients were transferred to another building, the Bonner Medical Building on the grounds early 1970's. So the Kirkbride has been neglected since that time.

I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE ITS KILLING ME

The Kirkbride building was in use up through 1980 anyway. It might have been shut down for good in 1982> A friend who was in the National Guard,told me that they used to use Danvers State to sight in their weapons during weekend drills at the Nike Base. The Nike site would be located just to the left side of the picture on one of the hills in the middle distance

I just Googled Danvers, and there is a book of old photographs of Danvers on e-bay selling for $1,000. A few weeks ago, there was a brick on e-bay with the highest bid at the time for $26.00 (for one brick from Danvers!) plus $19.50 for shipping.

If this incredible building had been in Europe and had been destroyed during WW II, it would have been rebuilt after the war. Most in this country have no respect for the Architecture and beauty of the past.

ya i tell ya danvers is the place to be

This shot reminds me of the roof tops of a small town in Brussels or England.

Leave it to the State of Massachusetts to allow an architectural treasure like this to be destroyed.
It amazes me how our tax money NEVER seems to go anywhere but into the pockets of special interests. If we want to preserve something so monumental, we must raise private funds!!!!! There is another state hospital in Medfield Ma. That has LOVELY grounds. Now all the buildings have been closed and all the barns and outbuildings have been torn down. I have no idea what fate awaits Medfield state, I only pray the land is NEVER develped!

dianne,

I'm from MA, so it kind of hurts when people are so willing to say it's all MA's fault for letting the place go. It happens all over the place so there's no point in placing the blame on a figurehead.

Danvers is a really unfortunate case of special interest. I hate to think about what's going to happen to it (but que sera, sera, it's already happening) and the developers that are actively involved. It sucks.

But there are cases in which the land is going to be developed for a more practical reason, say, legislators working to demolish Worcester's hospital in order to build a new one. I don't want to see WSH go, but heck, we need more hospitals desperately (for the record, some of the patients at WSH were released to some kind of halfway house in my hometown - because what we really need is sexual deviants living next to the YMCA, right?)!

I'm just wary of saying, I hope such-and-such never happens...you know?

This place is DEFINATELY spooky.. I've been one of the idiotic youth's who've gone inside.. and traveled through some of the underground tunnels.. no joke.. hehe.. and it's definately a shame that it's gonna be redeveloped actually by the company my mother works for.. avalon bay communities.. what a place this is gonna be to live in eh? hehe

Great pano! I never saw this!!! It feels like I'm in the tower right now.

The reason Danvers was lost was due to a number of reasons, high real estate values in the area, the litigious state of MA due to greedy lawyers and the fact that Danvers was an attractive nuisance for which DCAM was responsible, behind the scenes collusion between the Danvers politicians and Avalon Bay, (bribing, etc...) and the false "need" for affordable housing in Massachusetts, since it seems most of the people that move into these places aren't even from this state, so we shouldn't need it in the first place. Chapter 40B people...look it up....

"That...and the budget cuts...and POOF..."

haha

The truth hurts.

I 've been hooked on this site for days now.

I remember having a nightmare involving an abandoned Victorian House in my town, the slope of a caved in hard wood floor, an old piano and my own mild virtigo made for a spooky dreamscape. I think thats why Im so fascinated by this and other sites on this subject.

miles away in the far off distance to the right i see either 2 towers or a bridge of some sort, the ocean is only a couple miles in that dirrection

When we were on the roof at night, mainly in the tower, you could see the headlights of cars coming over the top of the hill way over on 128 in Beverly. The lights would suddenly appear very brightly then go down the hill and disappear, it was cool.
At that same spot on the highway, once you hit the apex of the hill, you could see Danvers State way off in the distance.

I worked there 45 years ago people tend to forget where the words idiot,moron, and imbacile are used .They were all there, a very ,very sad place to work. Attendants carried soap in a sock for protection. I lasted 3 day's. I couldn't handle it.

Truly incredible, such a waste of true historical beauty.

I agree with you. All the state hospitals are in sad shape and do not hold good memories. I worked at Paul A Dever in Taunton and it was in the same shape. If the state sells these properties the money should go to other state hospitals that are currently open to improve conditions. I remember all the clients sitting around in bean bags doing nothing, no staff to interact with them....all they did was clean them up and ignore them.

i love it, thx sooooo much Motts

I am at a loss for words

The building is truely a magical piece of architecture. I actually saw the building from a driving range in Middleton a few days ago and i was stunned to see the Kirkbride. Only the new condos don't look at all as fascinating as the original building. I wish that the building was kept as a national landmark or museum.

The MANY peaked roofs are amazing.