Drug Room

please tell me you checked behind that door......

Again a super gallery, Motts you did it again. Was that whole wing painted pepto pink? Thank You for the pics of Dixmont, and the opportunity to view another great Kirkbride before it is demolished.

It's sad were not going to see it again.

A great set. Thank you very much for sharing...

yes thanks, orange and pink, some color combo, but it beats institutional green : )))))

Thanks, Motts! Great set o'pics! (That is a fairly uuuugly color combo......)

Another excellent gallerie of pictures. This place wasn't really trashed or grafittized. It just fell apart from years of neglect.

It's unfortunate that I won't beable to visit this place, as it will have been demolished before my next trip back to Pittsburgh. Looked to be in great condition.

This makes me hate Wal-Mart even more.

I SPIT ON WAL-MART. OH BY THE WAY MOTTS YOU CERTAINLY DID DO THE PLACE JUSTICE. FAB!

Wal Mart is taking over the world. That's scarier than Dixmont ever was. Thank-you, Motts. You have such a wonderful, giving nature.

Thanks once again Motts.......& with you guys. on the Wall Mart issue.....

Damn it, this can't be the end! Thanks Mr. Motts for including us in your vacation!!! ;-)

Stunning and thought provoking. Thanks for making a virtual record of 'soon to be gone' history. Kudos.

Thank you again Motts for sharing another grand old beauty with us before it's forever gone. Great work!

Thanks for displaying Dixmont before its demolition, Motts. I hope it was well worth the LONG drive for you to see this ancient Kirkbride in her last days of existence. When I'd read that article on it being turned into a Wal-Mart Supercenter, it made me ill. One might think that the saveable parts of the building would be useable and they could have enough acreage there left over for Wal-Mart, too.

Big corporations have no time for history. I've seen that time and again. All the likes of Wal-Mart want to do is concrete over the world with their corporate identity, they're not for sharing it witht he relics of the past. I hope that eventually we all order groceries on line and have them delivered, then these huge superstores and their endless parking lots will be mere dinosaur stables, for the next generation of Motts to explore...

Hats off to you Motts. Congratts on another superb job in the galleries

again you are to be congratulated on your excellent photos

Stupid Wal-Mart! First Teoutihuacán ruined, now this... I hope their money is cursed!

Fanástic gallery, Mr. Motts!

Motts...you are a blessing to the Preservation world in a weird round-a-bout way...but the documentation you have made of these places are amazing along with being artistic....That's 2.

i actually got to walk around the place. it was awesome. I feel like one of the lucky ones. I could almost picture Jack Nicholson there.

Gee, Zach, my bad! I didn't read ahead, and I apologize for repeating exactly what you have already said. Someone please edit my last two really dorky stupid statements!

WTH.... Wal-mart is evil and corrupt and I hope they get Pinhead and Co. walking in on their grand opening.

Yay the drug room. FAREWELL Dixmont State Hospital!

Enjoyed the gallery of Dixmont! Fare thee well, soon I'll be on my way...

Dixmont is a scary place right now but they r fixing it 2 a brand new place!!!

Hmm...brittykitty..um...Dixmont has been torn down. It is gone. It IS NOT being fixed up. They are currently building a new Wal-Mart there. I think you are mixed up, hun. :)

Yo puddleboy, have you ever been here?

hmm...if I had to venture a guess, I'd say this is the door of the drug room...

Im glad that you came to dixmont. Ive been very interested in it for a long while now and never brave enough to go in for myself. These are the best pictures ive seen of Dixmont. Too bad they tore it down. I know that ill never shop at walmart for a long long time. (Fun fact: Dixmont was named after Dorthea Dix.)

I grew up in Emsworth. The entrance to Dixmont had to large pillars inside the gate was a white house on the right where Dr Camarata and his family lived. I played with the younger daughter Susan many times. The buildings at that time were beautiful and the place was always busy. The patients worked on the grounds you would see the trucks with men in the back standing with garden tools. They had guards that would watch the patients work so they wouldnt escape this was in the 1950's

The foundation for the new Wal Mart in Dixmont has fallen 3 times. You'd think that would say something to the company...

they should have never messed with that place. i was up there so many times and everytime i left i felt like somthing came with me. i hated that they tor it down to put up a walmart. i just hope now for the sake of things that all this has not been for nothing. was only caught one time out of 85 visits illegally.

one of the neatest places to go was on top of the morgue building. it was like the penthouse but filled with a bunch of old machinery. Great view of the ohio.

thankyou for putting these pictures on the net. i hope that the wal-mart people get the shit scared out of them every now and then by the sprits that are there. then maybe some people will learn to leave these beautifull buildings alone so that future people can see history.

I hate the thought of a big corp.takeing the place of history butt.. yes I said it , tis done we cant change it, Walmart will bring in job opportunites for the community. NO I dont work at walmart, "Dont hate the player hate the game".

I wouldn't work at Wal-Mart if you...well, if you paid me. They can't even handle treating their employees like actual human beings most of the time...those are jobs the community doesn't need.

Just a polite question, no bias, but how many of the people screaming "Walmart is a hellhole" have ever worked there, or haven't been advised by their union that it's a hellhole, or a friend of a friend's younger brother's ex-roommate's cousin worked there?
just out of curiosity..
No, I don't work there, nor do I know anyone who does, but every time I go to my local Wally World, the workers seem pretty okay with their situation..

It appears from my research that my great-great-grandmother was a patient at this hospital. I really appreciate being able to learn a little more about it. Thanks for the website. She is found on a 1870 census record in this hospital. If you had not placed the pictures and info here, I would have never known what it looked like or a little more about it.

that pretty much says it all.

I want to put that sign over my door ;)

Thank you so much for preserving this history with photos. I will try to tell all I can about your awesome tribute.

Withdrawal is a symptom of having too much blood in the drugstream.

ok, where did you get this photo of the door to my bedroom in my senior year of college?
...boo! --bad! --corny, if accurate enough!
yeah ur right im sorry

Motts when did you leave Dixmont and go to Britney's house :) jk love you Britney

....Wow....

Sounds like my room on a Saturday night! lol
...was that too subtle?

Thanks for sharing the photos. I was up there a few years ago, a couple of times. Your pictures brought back such great memories for me. Thank you.

please tell me u went in there????

Any left?

I had a friend who was committed to dixmont back in 1966. she was only there for a short time. i really dont remember the building that much, but it really had to live up to the specs. this site is great, cause i really love the history of an old building.

I still cannot believe what Wal-mart did. I am NEVER shopping there again.

very nice set of picures, i have always been interested in the history of places like this..i look at all these shots and think, "damn what if walls could talk?" and "what have these walls seen in there lifetime..."

Ah, the labels were simple for all to understand, now everything has some complicated name, so that we need a dictionary for interpretation......lol

You know, Motts, I know this is an old gallary,.. but I was SO extremely interested into this hospital/ruins phase.. my grandma worked at the psych hospital in utica, ny.. the old main one that i ventured into so many times.. i remember hanging out and going on outtings with her patients.. shes no longer alive and a lot of her old residents/patients arent either.. now IM a nurse, and I've been ill enough to require psychiatric hospitalization .. and I've worked with some of HER old patients.. and It's just so numbing and eye opening to think I was so 100% skewed in my beliefs one way and now I totally think so much in the other direction and part of it was spawned by your photographs.
I think you're cool enough to understand what I mean but it's really surprising what most of your viewers have to say!! God damn. P.S. I push every single drugs ever listed on this site plus some. It isn't barbaric or inhuman... you try getting attacked by someone psychotic or mentally imbalanced. better to give an IM injection than to have the potential well being of staff and other residents at risk.

The fact they build a freaking Wal Mart over this ticks me off. Its not like theres a shortage of wal marts, jeez people.

I have also given most of the psych meds mentioned in the discussions about psych care. The medications protect the patient from hurting themselves or others. I have injected Haldol through a pair of jeans and into a thigh on a violent ER patient being restrained by multiple ER.EMS, and security staff. The only way to protect everyone concerned. I think of it as better living through chemistry.