Salmon Building

Ohhhhh a mini Danvers : )

That was my first thought, too...minus the cuppolas....nice building, cool pic, too.

I have to run to an appointment, but tonight I'll post a link to some historical pix of this place - old postcards and some old pix I picked up somewhere another along the way.

How do you say "really cool salmon building" in Latin?

Well...cool wouldn't be in the Latin language...and salmon didn't translate well...so, how about "beautifully colored building?

That'd be:

"pulchre infucatus aedificium edificium"

Mini Danvers definitely.
Danvers...OH *sobs*

OK, a day late, 12 dollars short. Here are some old postcards and pix of Norwich State Hospital, formerly officially called the "lunatic hospital" or the "lunatic asylum" as you can see in the postcard titles. I thieved the second set of pix from somewhere - can't remember where or when. :-( If I thieved them and it's a problem, someone lemme know and I'll take them down:

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Wow, great find with those pictures! At first when I saw all the links I thought V-idiot Poker might have struck again lol! But then I noticed they weren't in that dumb coding format, and that the links were actually usefull! LOL

LoL! That's what I thought at first too, Barbara! And those were GREAT finds...or...umm...thieven things...LoL! :0)

Lynne!! wow, great old photos. Thanks for sharing.

Bri, thanks :-) for the translation .

Thanks for the posting these pictures lynne, i have been hoping someone would find some evenually. the first couple show how this building has lost some of it's details over the years, things we probably would never have known were there.

No prob, silkster! :0)

Is it just my eyes playing tricks on me or are all the walls in the photo at different angles?

Addicted: Yes now that you mention it, the walls DO look wonky!

Lynne honey thank you once again for some terrific links! I particularly love the second last one.....I want to live in that big old "house" with the turrets. And make sure that lovely big ol' fireplace is in there too. :-)

Thanks, Lynne, for the postcards.
I can see it now:
"Having a great time, wish you were here"

Right, I think I'll do my sightseeing elsewhere.

Thanks, Lynne. I will check them out when I get home tonight. I can't open them here at work... Too bad we have "websense" here......yuk...
: ` (

That's the prettiest Insane Hospital I have ever seen. How does one treat a hospital, I wonder.

With "Hall-dol" and "Thora-screen," of course.

Thanks Lynne, haven't been on the tube much, miss this stuff .........more cool stuff to check out, Can always deptnd on Motts and Lynne .....

Lynne, Thanks for sharing. That is your site? What have you done to Motts?! Made him a homemaker?! LOL LOL Mottsie soda...yum!

Great photos. Gave me a hardy laugh!!

BTW...Danvers was the first thought in my mind also. :-/

I lubs ya lots, Lynne!!!

Nice links Lynne, thank you!

I wrote a song 'Waiting", last year, dedicated to wrongly imprisoned 'patients' but mainly about the 7 yo boy who spent life in Danvers... for pulling a fire alarm twice. This spooky setting may inspire another!

After the cool 'institutionalized' (pardon the unmeant pun) of the Administration Bldg, this one looks like it was thrown together in a hurry!

This is a beautiful hospital! Is it made on the order of a Kirkbride or is it a genuine Kirk? It is awesome nonetheless.

Whenever I'm heading to Mohegan (right across the river) you can really see how huge the place is. I'm suprised that they built it so close to the water incase someone got loose.

The Salmon building use to be maximuim security until 1972 at Norwich Hospital . They closed that and moved the dangerous clients to Middletown Whiting Forensic .

my favorite one of all

I worked in Salmon Bldg in the late 1960's and at the Hospital until it closed. The tunnels under this bldg. are haunted by some of the states most violent ghosts of former patients. Here we had murderers, rapists,child molesters and arsonists. Alot of them were chained in the tunnels, thats right, I said chained. burned with cigarettes and beat up by us the aides. They were expeimented on by doctors and alot of them died in failed experiments. Their ghosts have wandered the tunnels for years. What they want is...revenge. Just a warning to any of you that think its cool to go down there after dark. No one will hear you scream. Do you think that everyone that has ever gone down there has left? Think again. I worked there 30 years and I would never go in the tunnels under Salmon. Their waiting, time doesn't matter to them. All that matters is to make the living suffer. They will do to you what was done to them in life. So Beware down in those tunnels, because, I promise, you are not alone!

Oh Mr. "Fist," you big goose! You've just gone and scared us all to pieces with that story - I swear, we are shivering in our boots from fright! We certainly WON'T go down into those tunnels now that you have told us that darned scary story, will we, gang?

I am so beside myself with fear that I'm having trouble typing this comment.

Lynne, You talk real big now. Go down in the tunnels under Salmon after dark, if you have the balls. Go alone though. On the way you'll wonder if what I say is true and that little bit of doubt, will be enough to scare you. I bet you don't go!

I find it even more upsetting to find out that Lynne may have balls!
Is there a support group for this kind of condition? Can chemo cure this???
; )

If I am thusly equipped it's going to come as a huge shock to my husband. =8-o

Sorry, I currently work in an institution with many buildings that have been shut down because the place is so old (our centennial is coming here in a few years), and it doesn't bother me a bit to be there at any hour. Old buildings, new buildings, 3:00 a.m. or noon - a building is just a building. The building I currently have an office in has the morgue in the basement and a number of individuals have died on the building over the years. However, several times a month I work late and there is no one else on the building. I haven't done anything to cause anyone who is dead (or living) to target me in the afterlife or in the here and now.

I am, however, afraid of townspeople. They are weird as hell. All you people who don't work in institutional facilities are weird to me. I have a lot more fear of "normal" people than I do of anyone I have ever worked with in all these years, even the most violent folks. With clients I at least know what I'm getting into. With all the townies, they can go ballistic and you never have a clue. Lots more crime on the streets than where I work, that's for sure. Doesn't take much in the way of guts to work where I do. What takes guts is working on the streets.

I prefer the tag 'hillbilly' to 'townspeople', thank you.

But doesn't "hillbilly" refer only to men? Or could you be a "hillwilhelmina"?

Hmm, I'd always just used the word generically... but you know, I'm liking "hillwilhelmina"

You know, thinking about this, I might struggle to say that five times fast.

How about Hillbilly and Hillbillie?

You sure the ghosts just aren't people in glowing masks?

Sorry folks, I've been in many places where there are supposed to be tortured spirits, whether infants, children, ordinary schmucks or solders. Only thing I heard was wind, creaking timbers, furry animals or even machinery (in active buildings). But I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's ghostly bodies haunting the dark corners of the room.

I'm going out as a 'townspeople' for halloween this year!

Holy Sweet Mother of Potatoes - you'll be the scariest one there! =8-o

What is really disturbing is the comment made by Sam "fists". Are you saying that you partook in the abuse of these patients? Does anyone else want to investigate the truth or falsities of this statement? This has come to the attention of another web site altogether (your comment) because of the attention NSH is getting with Ghost Hunters and the reality show, Celebrity Paranormal Project. Apparently they wanted to or filmed in this location.

Is that Sam for real? I read on the guestbook someone wrote they worked there also and if you go in the tunnels you will never be seen again.

I want to know if any other areas of the hospital are haunted and whether anyone has been in Kettle or Lab buildings lately and how would they be accessed. How do you access the tunnels underneath Salmon building? Anyone have any pics of the boat docks and what were they used for? I assume transport of oil for the power plant. If so e-mail me smilingcorey@yahoo.com

I would also like to know the truth what was done to patients at the hospital. I heard there is a doctor coming forward doing a public access TV show on the history of the hospital. It wouldnt surprise me if the doctors abused the patients because that was commonplace at that time.

Excuse me double posting, but as I was saying. I was watching Celebrity Paranormal Project, and they called it Warson Asylum. They had a nurse talking about the incidents, and this, and that. I honestly think that if it were that known for it's torture, and cruelty. Well, I don't think it would have taken this long for someone to speak up, none the less over a computer, and without a way of leaving a real name. The pictures are beautiful, and I imagine plenty of suffering to the patients happened, but it's happened more so in houses, bedrooms, and down the street.

Does any one know the year of those postcards were taken? And was this facility for the criminaily insane or does every facility have a seperate wing for crimanial insane......

i was just in the kettle building of the hospital last night. i fell through a hole in the floor and hurt my legg really bad.

looks very creepy from the out side but a wonderful picture

nightmares and dreemscapes , works for me .

Anyone know info about the Employee Clubhouse building and what it was actually used for and what years?

who actually has been into the hospital? anyone planning any future trips...im up for it! seriously.

i know I have said it before like a old maid- but be careful- the salmon bldg is in bad shape- if you look on the side you will see the brick is collapsed- please take a friend- and truely I would be more afraid of getting lost in the tunnels not of the boogies_ i do have to admit the kettle bldg gives me the creeps

there is a research bldg-
but for torture I know many nurses and docs- that now work in other facilities and the only thing they will tell you that the patients seemed even then to have a lot of room to move- and if you lived in Norwich and road the city bus , you will remember a lot of them ( one in mind) that just use to ride the bus all day after they "escaped" that was why norwich city and that area was fun when I was young- the intresting people you meet!!!!!

oh I am sorry- great job motts how did you get the pic that way

lynne, unbelievable stuff - it is just beautiful

My father used to work at norwich and salmon was the maximum security building... but i think the lab would have to be the coolest...also galup or eagle i cant remember has bowling alleys

scratch eagle lol i ment earle

Does any one know what certain buildings were used for and who occupied them? What building are the caged doors in? Where's the auditorium and bowling alley? I have so many questions

Gee, at the beginning when I was looking at the post card images that Lynne had linked for us to see, I thought hmmm...with the right restoration the place would possibly make nice housing. But since Sam the fist left such a grewling tale, that doesn't seem to be such a good idea after all.

The property really is as beautiful as a lot of people think. However, many of the buildings are extremely unsafe. [Information edited out per site policy - Admin.]

Kayla,
I've been told that the Salmon bldg was for the criminally insane, the Stribling bldg was used to house TB patients who were also mentally ill. I've been told that in the Lippitt Bldg is where they used to perform then "state of the art" medical procedures, such as the labodomy .

I have an ancestor who was a resident at the hospital, when we tried to find the records of why he was there we were informed they were destroyed many years ago. I have always wanted to explore the buildings.

If anyone REALLY wants to know what the hospital was like please see my documentary "Brewster's Neck: Memories of Norwich State Hospital". It is 57 minutes long and is not for sale, but is available in every public library in Southeast CT. Any questions, feel free to e-mail me at brewstersneck@aol.com.

Just read up on the town bulletin and an investment company bought the land and is tearing it down to erect some gawdy monstrosity, 18 hole golf course, two 5 star hotels, etc. say goodbye to the beauty of norwich. I myself have been inside every building 4 times. PLanning on documenting everything and putting videos on youtube and eveything before this beautiful place. Anyone know where the morgue is? never been able to find it.

mmm salmon...tasty

it is so amazin g to look at the ouside as well as the interior