Heavenly Geometry

Beautiful Motts!

WOOHOO!!!! A new gallery!! Thak you, Motts!!! It would be something if you could get get pics of all the buildings, but if this place is as big as you say, you'd need a few servers!!!

Thank you!! I will keep my comments to a minimum. But everything I say is a lie. Beautiful shot!

And I have to tell you, Motts, that I love that you posted articles about the buildings and their possible future.

I loved the introduction story, just as good as any adventure book.

Oooh nice shot!

And yay! New gallery! *does Snoopy dances*

New Pics!!!, Thanks Mr. Motts, I don't know what will be better, The new gallery, or the Story of how you got the new Gallery!!!!! ;-) Ed from Oregon

oh thank you thank you thank you here we go again. give us halls and stairways and stuff. omg i need some nibbling stuff. =)))

Jebus, Motts, I take a day off for major crises at work and you sneak a new gallery in on me. I am shamed on you! >:-(

But I am going to forgive you and go look at these right now. :-)

Yippy ! new pics,
I swear, one day I'll be the first to post!!

Great work Motts.
The first thing I think of when I see the picture is the grand stair case of the Titanic.
Beautiful shot.

Oh goodie!! Thanks Motts, I'm SO looking forward to checking these out!

Lynne darling I hope everything's okay??

Comes and goes - ya just go with the flow. :-)

XXXOOO

I am sooo happy to find this website! Excellent photography not to mention very entertaining to read comments while admiring. I am ecstatic to find other people that like this kind of stuff too!

Isn't it the best, Staycee?

Wow, my hat of to you Mr. Motts. Norwich state is no joke. big time high tech ninja in the house!

Fantastic perspective and lighting.

MR. MOTTS? DID YOU HAPPEN TO NOTICE ANY PATIENT INFO IN ADMINISTRATION? MY AUNT WAS A LONG TIME PATIENT AT NSH. AND IS MENTALLY RETARDED AND CAN NOT TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT HER STAY THERE. I WAS JUST WONDERING WHAT TYPES OF MEDS THEY USED BACK THEN AND HOW THEY TREATED DIFFERENT THINGS. I FIGURED ANYTHING LEFT BEHIND SUCH AS PATIENT RECORDS WOULD GIVE ME MY ANSWER. BEAUTIFUL GALLERY! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

Ronnie, do you need to "scream" in caps? I think your point will get across just as well in regular type. Just a thought...

Hats and derbies off to you Motts!! another excellent gallery. In response to the above comment, no hard feelings, but alot of people like to type in caps, not to get the point across, but because it looks neater to some. :-)

Hey Motts,

Have you ever been caught?

I absolutely love this site, awesome pics Motts!

O and Hi to everybody here! I love reading all your comments, this site keeps me entertained for hours.

Great shot! Gives you a good idea of the grandeur of this hospital. There is a beautiful large bronze plaque on the floor right to the left just out of view in this shot commemorating the opening of the hospital.

Great photos. And hey, does anyone know any good "ghost stories" about Norwich? Just curious.

Thanks, Devon.

Talking about caps...soon I may have to use caps if I am to keep typing, because having to use my sight to listen puts strain on my eyes and using caps sometimes relieves the strain, so far, I can get by with regular caps. However, a friend of mine is got bad eyesight and loves sites like this, only the one time she commented to a topic, someone, like above, lashed out at her for using caps. Sad to say, she never goes in these sites or comments no more for fear of making someone feel ill at ease for her caps. I think caps are a pretty type though and easier to read!

And I would love for her to come into this site, however, she will not comment. She would love Motts photos, that is for sure!

Motts, you named that pix right...it seems as if those stairs would take one right into heaven's realm! Good work!

Deafangel, In reading more I see that you are deaf. Motts has a very good suggestion in increasing your font size. One of the reasons people get upset at those using all caps is that it is perceived as shouting. My best friend is blind. Her reading software reads all caps as shouting and literally shouts the text at her. Increasing the font size may help you greatly. And take good care of your eyes. They are so very important to you. Come on over to the forum and talk. You will like it over there.

Thanks Motts for suggestion. I appreciate that much. if anyone like email me, my ID is deafangel4706@aol.com

awesome pic!

I worked here for a mechanical contractor in the
early 80's.They would release people from here
without them having anywhere to go.They would
walk to the city of Norwich,and the people in Norwich would be VERY unhappy.I think that had a major bearing on the place closing.I lived in the CITY of Norwich from 1962 to 2001.

I love this photo!
great work.... =)
LOve iT!!

Well done pic. One can picture the newly weds decending the grand staircase.

some new articles on the hospitals progess:

http://peakoil.blogspo...imate-impact-on.html

http://www.boston.com/...ia_studios_proposal/

If anyone goes near the hospital now a days, there are three to four little white security cars hiding in the tall grass around the main building. and the moment they see any movement towards the hospitals, it's like messing with a bees nest... they are all over you.

Tons of articles on the Norwich Hospital and Utopia in the news today in CT.

http://www.norwichbull...EWS01/604200339/1002

http://www.norwichbull...NEWS01/60420006/1002

the residents of Preston are going to vote on it in may

More so than all the others,this place really looks like a prison from all angles,don't you agree?

Hi, I grew up in Norwich State Hospital. No, I was not a patient, but my father was a Doctor there in the early 80's. We lived in a house on the hospital property, right next to a building called the Bryan Building, which had been abandoned even back then. I have some GREAT memories growing up there, please post more pictures if you can. Thank You for preserving this through your pictures!

This is the old administration building . All the records when they closed the place were shredded Ronnie . Depends where your aunt was etc .

nice pic. i took pics of the outside.
i still think the place is haunted.

Amazing shot. I was just there this weekend and it's amazing what a freaking wreck the place is now. This shot isn't even possible there is so much stuff in the way now...

i remember the first time i walked in that room

just stay away.....its not for you

awesome, real nice dude

mint

VH1 went in and trashed this building. they threw all their trash and all the old desks down the stairs on the left. I was PISSED!

i would love to go in there im so interrested with ghost, i would really like to see for my self if it's really haunted!!!! and i have to admit when i saw the show on vh1 it gave me goose bumps and i didn't like the fact that the messed up the place.

there really is a heaven; or at least a way to get there. very good pic

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest just started on television.

Thank you - I will now shut mine off.

I wouldn't want to go there cause it housed mentaly insane paicents and places like that, that are haunted are the worse to go to cause the ghosts there are still violent so theres a chance that anyone that goes there will be hurt or worse and thats a chance I don't want to take.

=8-o

Well, I've seen ghosts before and so far I've had all pleasant expriences but I do have to agree with Gloeon though. Since many of the patients were criminally insane it wouldn't be
a good idea to go looking for ghosts.

but, Motts I love this site and your photos Rock!! I find myself drown in and mesmerized.
I hope your able to get more awesome pictures. I would love to Mass Mental in boston.
My sister had a temp job there when she was in college and said that
she would be typing when all the sudden she would hear screams or pounds noises on the walls. Freaked her out!!

Erm...when was the last time either of you were attacked by a ghost?

Please, do tell. I am most intrigued....

It's to bad this place is covered with desks, chairs and other large items. It's nice to see what it used to look like.

I loved to look at the floor - it's marble and real beautiful design- there was glass everwhere the last time but unbelievable- the pic is beautiful- the criminal insane bldg next to it is really unsafe- please if you visit bring a friend and be careful the ceiling in the middle and stairs are falling- remember back then they used "real' materials...

I was recently in there. It's so sad how everything is vandalized.

This place seems pretty sweet, now heres the thing I wanna know how to get in. If any of you could do me the favor of emailing me to enter this place, i would like to know how. Im doing a research paper, and me and my friend would be most willing to get in there. Email me @ staindwithhate32@yahoo.com

Thats hilarious, cuz when i visited this place i roamed a TON of buildings, inside and out... and i did meet security, and they were like "you drove ALL the way from NY for this place????" I said yeah, and they said "okay well just dont go in any of the buildings, they might be dangerous" and that was all... oh man, i saw so much that day... way worth driving 4 hrs for.

Imagine how beautiful this place must have been in 1904.

I live 5 minutes from the hospital and in all my life I have never seen somthing more beautiful in my whole entire 14 years of my life. I mean I've seen it from the outside, and my dad and i have drove throught it, but i have never seen the inside this is awesome

there have to be at least 40 buildings... the place is rediculous!

Up the stairs we go! Into the light that is full of promise! Don't rage against the dying of the light, rage if it isn't there.

I live in preston and I am totally against the whole utopia thing. The state hospital IS creepy- i dreive by it all the time and i get kinda freaked!

Hi, if you wouldn't mind, I'd really like if you could give me some information about the hospital, especially the older buildings and the security situation. I plan to take pictures there and experience the place, but I'm scared to death of being charged with criminal trespassing if I get caught. It sounds like you got out in the nick of time anyway. My email is ryan5red@aol.com. I hope to hear from you.

I knew a couple of patients who were 'freed' from this facility when the doors were thrown open. They became confused, despondent, and homeless. The closing of such places was a grave injustice to many of those who needed & depended upon them. I believe the mental institution will have to be re-invented.

Though I agree with you 167% Eileen. Before the mental health system could be re-invented as you put it... the citizens will have to be willing to pay more taxes.

It's truly a shame that the same people who complain about paying taxes will be the first to dial 9-1-1 and complain about homeless people talking to themselves or causing a disturbance or killing a loved one when problem could have been prevented in the first place.

These "freed" patients are suffering more now than those who were "prisoners" in the mental health systems darkest days.

I love this pic. Its too bad that I went there after it had been further vandalized, by friends of friends who do that stuff :(. The hospital has an interesting past, that I know, but I've failed to find any online references that go beyond statistics and opinions. Time is running short for me (deadlines and such), but if people have info... let me know.

(Also, what happened with the guys who was arrested for trying to start a fire there? and what of the "copper mining"... as it was referred to by some of my friends... the stealing of the copper piping in the tunnels for sale? any word on who was doing that? I've been so sheltered lately and haven't heard anything)

i've been to this place 3 times-from ri.all during the nite. the 1st time me n my partner got caught by a very quiet, white security suv. he jus let us go. but dont sleep because they have beefed up their security. bigtime.thanks to idiots n matches. state police roam the campus. there is foot patrol. and even some half assed boobytraps. i spotted all this thanks to the cover of nite n my nifty night vision goggle. this place is huge! no joke. and at nite it seems to tower over u. i do warn...it's haunted. believe what u want but i KNO. or atleast the small auditorium is.thats where i had the experiences. many. it was a bit overwhelming. by the way...great shot. it brings me bak to the 1st time i saw that room.

Hey Motts,
Durring your stay did it feal very haunted anywhere in there? also did you ever hear about Pearl And Nell Marley? they were said to be the worst ever recorded that pearl was a demented spirit that would torture nell and they did a weird ice pick thing on Nell. did you ever see her padded cell or any padded cells? and is it worth while going there for a tour

Tara,

Motts says "I do not believe in ghosts."

http://www.opacity.us/contact.htm

So I'm thinking not...

so beautiful...

It's so beautyful, but i got ruined because some people decided to throw furniture around >:(

I lived in Ledyard growing up and remember driving past this many times. I still live in the general area. The Utopia deal fell through about a year ago. It turns out that Utopia is into some shady dealings and they missed some finacial deadlines. So Preston told them that the deal was off. I still love to drive past these building and I wish that I could just walk the grounds to get a better look at them. I hope you have the chance to visit again and take more pictures.

This is coming from someone that used to be a guard at the old abandoned property. You did an awsome job with the photos and capturing the essence of the place.

reminds me of the titanic

Well I would like to start off that user CCL08 is definitly a pig. With that said Motts love the photos I have about 600+ photos from my own visits to different hospitals. This one in particular is security tight. They wouldn't even let me take photos of the outside. Good thing the casino is near by as a drove far to get in.

The majority of this property has been sold to the town of Preston for $1.00. A developer has said its perfect for a suburban development. Keep up on the local on-line newspapers, theday.com and norwichbulletin.com for articles on what is happening with this site. Needs a lot of environmental cleanup, so it will probably be there for a while, but it looks like it is being targeted for demolition/development.

love the picture its like you really are there

What a terrible terrible waste! When will those in charge in this country wake up and realize what we are losing. Beauty matters! Beauty makes one feel at ease! The cookie cutter architecture practiced in the country now is depressing to say the least! Thanks again Motts! You have given most of us a chance to see the inside of buildings we could never have seen, nor even known existed.

Well I am so far the last to comment on this. It is impressive. Reminds me of photos of our old state Hospital (Woodmere that burned in the early 1940's in Evansville, Indiana.) Our state hospital rotundra.

This looks like the stairs in the show ER

''this hospital is hunnted''

i wish i could see this place in person. it looks awesome. only problem is i was born a natural witch so it could be bad

Wow. Look at that beautiful staircase. From what I've been reading, this space is either trashed beyond belief or gone altogether. Thank goodness Motts has preserved it through photography.

SUPER

I sure wish I could investigate this place! Would take days to cover the whole place (like security would allow that, lol). I can dream anyway. All hospitals are haunted, not just this one.