Front Door

Something about the porch by the door looks "off." Like it wasn't part of the original structure. Love the roof.

Yay! New gallery time. Thanks, Peaches, for giving us a buzz.

Looks more like a painting than a real building. I can't wait to get inside...

This building is beautiful! I like the green roof over the door as compared to the red clay tiles!

An interesting mix of eclectic architectural styles.

It looks like someones old villa/compound on some carribean island somewhere.

Great description, Tony! Nice shots Mr. Motts, and look at Mother Nature doing her thing again.

That's it, Tony! I was wondering what I was thinking of...and that was it! :0)

Tony, I was thinking the same thing. Great Minds......

Same, Tony...it also reminded me of a hotel you might find in Florida or something. It's that style of roof...

Serrena, your right, the porch looks like greek revival.

I would like to thank you for these wonderful images. I am fascinated with the architecture involved with these majestic buildings. I frequnted darkpassage.com for the longest time, but due to the lack of updates, I found your site.

Keep up the good work.

I, too would like to thank you.
In these photographs, you are preserving part of history, that someday will be no-more.
Christopher in England

Very interesting structures. reminds me a little of Concrete City for some reason,
Anyway, so happy to see a new gallery!
thanks motts :)

I hate to be the moron with the stupid amateurish question but why DO (sorry about the caps but I don't have italics) all the TB hospitals have those open porches? To get the patients some fresh air without actually letting them out? I mean, I know they were all tortured within an inch of their lives. LoL

Information on the "why" for TB porches can be found at the following URL. It's not truly a clinical resource, but it will provide the answer. :-)

http://faculty.virgini...orium/pavilions.html

This place is beautiful! I feel so bad I never got to see it before it fell :-( Look at those shingles!

you guys have to check this out
http://money.cnn.com/p...rameset.exclude.html

BTW, it's related to Danvers and AvalonBay

Too funny, Nick, thanks for the link!

I'd have to agree with CNN.

I saw this site for the first time today and have looked at it for more than 7 hours. Every person that i've come in contact w/ has also been directed to this site. WOW!

I've been a big Opacity fan since last year April '05, but, have made very few posts (quiet respect). I just gobble up every photo and every gallery for hours on end!

Motts, you are absolutely wonderful, talented, and truely has what it takes to have an ever-growing fan base!

Now, this place is jumping with lively talk, so I am chiming in! *waves to everyone*

Now, for my question...I either missed Mott's notion in his description, or it was left out: <b>Does anyone know when this place was built?</b>

Thanks! *passes chocolate to all*

I don't believe he posted anything regarding the year built.

Considering it was a TB Hospital to start I would wager late 1800's to Early 1900's.

I'm sure he'll chime in with the answer once he sees this again.

By the way.. Welcome. Glad to have ya
*takes a piece of chocolate* Thanks for sharing.

I did a bit of searching, but can't find a year. The part that was the victim of arson was built in the '20s or '30s, though, from what I can find.

Welcome, by the way. Always nice to hear from a lurker now and then.

Hi, Lyric & Serrena! Thank you for the warm welcome, I really love it here!

I, too, thought it was around the late 1800s and the Turn of the Century, too, Lyric. Very interesting archetecture (sp?)!

this place is beautiful! too bad they demolished it, they could have remodeled and made it a hotel or a resort or something!

The picture is absolutely stunning! It reminds me of one of those abandoned buildings you see in Viet Nam doctumentries.

It is to bad that its just standing there dormant. I love the roofing tiles. My husband and I went by there yesterday. I wanted to go in but he was creeped out.

this place looks unreal man i need to go there before they rip it down

i am almost postive they havent torn it down yet...

This place is facinating. I love looking up info on it. i don't kow what it is.. but there's just something about it....

A buddy of mine went to the hospital a few nights ago and took pictures of the perimiter.. The pictures are unbelieveable...
The main budilding seems so peaceful, but inside there are large flashes of light in the top section. ( but, there is no electricity running to the building) - But as i looked at more of the picutes, there seemed to be a thousand eyes gleeming in one of the rooms. Also, there is large energy spots to the right of the building in one of the pictures. I don't believe it is "haunted" but i do believe it pulls enegy of some sort...

my friend and i went in there once, he always tries to get me to go back, i don't care to be arrested though. anyway, he said once when he was in there that some weird stuff happened. he felt something scratch him and it wasn't his friends. he also found some slips of old patients laying around and took them out and showed them to me. fucking weird, one this i noticed on the slips was a category called "occult blood". what the hell is that? freaky...

I had no idea that is what occult blood means (I learn something new everyday!!! ) :-)

oh i see. ok, thanks. :)

is there alot of vanduslim?

No, not much "vanduslim" -- but maybe some "Slim Fast"

Sorry.

Yes, there is alot of vandilism. From this picture you cannot tell, but there is ALOT. People have no respect for this place, and alot of stuff from the outside has been thrown out the top story windows, which are all broken.

A beautiful building.... and sadly, if you haven't heard....

http://cbs4boston.com/...story_150214837.html

... this fire didn't look too bad....

There was yet another fire in the building last night. Its not burnt to the ground but its probably not safe to go in. I tryed going last night but the cops were waiting and wouldn't let us in. There have been 4 fires in 20 months from kids partying so if anyone wants to go now is the time.

This is a terrible update. What sickos get their jollies from setting fires?

i live within 5 minutes of this remarkable building, when i was younger we went there quite often, but now its getting harder and harder to visit due to police patrolling the area, definately an awesome building, i remeber when i was a little kid we heard explosions, well we called the police and they told us they had found chemicals, or a biohazard type of waste or some sort, and they had dug a hole and were blowing it up. sort of cool,

The main building still stands. If a good use isn't found for it soon it will fall to the big ball.

I've been in that building before. Its wicked pretty but some screwed up stuff happend it there, it was nuts.
As much as the building puts me and awe and freaks me out at the same time, Im mad that someone tried to burn it down

this place is friggen amazing,

i went there and fell in love =)

check out teaguefirephoto.com to see the pictures of the fires.

I'm a student filmmaker currently doing a documentary of PCH... such an amazing place that needs to be captured on camera before its gone for good....

www.redroofdocumentary.blogspot.com

ITS NOT GONE I WENT TO IT LAST NITE!!!!!!!!!!

Im in the process of getting the permit , to investagate the area at the hospital , i work for the MASCC Northeast Paranormal Soc , if you know of any or would like info on the investagation please e-mail me at donmac82@yahoo.com

my son and 4 friends went there saturday night. he took my brand new dig camera. they saw some lights on in there also. then they noticed a mattress blocking a window and got spooked. when they turned around in that little circle driveway, the window at the place was now wide open and the mattress was turned at an angle in what they said was mid air. they took pics driving away. when they got home we noticed all the pics had a ton of huge and small orbs everywhere. 2 of the windows in the pics had images of a woman with a v-neck shirt on with her hands and face pressed up against the window (which i agree) and in the 3rd window they seem to believe the image is a man in a wheelchair. I can't 100% verify the images but i know a slew of ORBS when i see them and this place is loaded with them.

it's prety creepy in there at night sinse u cant see anything the back is crowded with beds and wheel chairs so go in from the side and also there is allways a cop car out front so find a path on the side woods and there is plenty of them

i was here last night. messed up. had to leave

Looks like something out of the movie Papillon or another penal colony.

i was there 2 night and i saw something i've never seen in my life. me and my 2 friends were walking around it and something threw something at us twice from a window and when we went to walk back around we saw a 6 foot tall white see through thing walking towards us from like 50 ft away and im not lying, my heart is still going crazy now from what i saw about an hour ago.

its the scariest place i've ever been. if you go don't talk to the ghost walking the dog...

first off...this place IS NOT haunted in any way,shape or form that i saw.

me and the leader of my team walked through a few nights ago and it was creepy as HELL but no ghosts,orbs,appirations,spirits,demons or even racoons accosted us or where seen.

7-24-07 Everything is still there but the back of the building is burned down. I went at nite and it was scary as hell. Only me & 1 other kid went in but we took off after 10 min due to cops coming. Didnt see any ghosts but felt creepy

i drove down the driveway last night at about quarter to eleven and it was so scary i had to leave. just after i pulled out i saw a cop car pull in. (perfect timing, huh?) i went back today with two friends to attempt to get inside, just to look, not to do any vandalism or disturb any part of the building in any way, but it was completely boarded up. i want to get inside so badly, just so i can see for myself the true beauty of this magestic building. anyone know a guaranteed way to get in?

This place is awesome...ive been in it 3 times. the front/main part of the building seems to be the most interesting. Its not haunted just creepy. The lights ppl are seeing in windows are actualy reflections from the near by street light....we thought we saw lights in windows..but quickly realized it just just light reflecting. We heard rumors of both a morgue and large auditorium with a stage...we didnt find either...alot of doors where locked and we didnt have a crowbar with us....so im sure there are parts we did not see. we also walked around lost in there for 2 hours(all 4 of us where very drunk) Once you find your way in(we found a broken out window behind some overgrown bushes. The back part i went in appeared to be like living quarters of some kind...had lots of posters on the walls about pregnancy..this was all about 6 years ago and everything had been gone through and there was lots of vanalisim. Lots of cops patroling so you might want to steak it out/make a point of entry and come back the next night.

I've been around this place before. When I was there, I was just around the outside, and a cop drove in. There's some kind of active office nearby, and I think they call the authorities, or something.

Anyway, get a load of the building materials. No wonder people think it's haunted; it's all concrete! And as we all now, concrete and cement are notorious for rendering notable electromagnetic fields. These play around with electronic devices and people's brains, as well, giving them that well-known feeling of "being watched". Nice building anyway. Excellent photo.

uhm yeah i went there with 4 other friends & 3 of us got arrested. it sucked but the hospital was sooo worth it.

The hospital building is not haunted. But it is very very dangerous. Stay out. The Police will arrest you.

I went there over the summer with three friends. creepy as hell. I swear we heard a hospital cart going down the hallway, but there was no one else there besides us.

DROVE TO THE FRONT OF THIS BUILDING.AND SOMEONE WAS IN THE WINDOW.NOT SURE WHAT IT WAS...

IS THERE GRAVES IN THE BACK OF THIS HOSPITAL????

In 1999 I led a group of people into this place before all of the fires and vandalism, and before much of the dissaray you might see today. For a week straight we went inside everynight and went further in everytime always keeping track of where we had been, as not to get lost. It was a dangerous place to be in and of course scary as hell. Many different unexplainable things happened one night a friend had glass fall on him and cut his face open from the ceiling where no evidence of glass had been, we had to rush him to the er. Another night two girls in our group dissapeared from the main body and 5 minutes later we found them in a patient room one on the floor clinching her knees crying and the other standing in a corner perfectly still and quiet, in the room was a box of interview tapes from psychiatric patients mostly from the 70's and early 80;s. In the main basement off in a corner we found a hole dug through the foundation in it was a tunnel that led into the earth for some meters until it opened into a cavern with many old broken apart cots and linenes, and old food cans from the middle of the 20th century.. I recall an underground passageway beneath the rear building that had an old wooden stairwell that must have gone down two stories to an old open, dank brick basement. We also found the creamatory (complete with ashes preists sash and bible circa 1920's....also we located the auditorium and lab storage areas complete with glass jars of many sorts of pickled organs. It was a great time to be there before much of the place had been ransacked and rumaged through. On the 7th night a bunch of kids were acting up in the front driveway and when the cos came to investigate we were caught coming out of the building...4 of us were among the first to ever get arrested for breaking and entering, and the state tried throwing felonies at me and another guy who were 18 at the time. But I must say to see the things I saw then in that building it was worth the extensive exploration, as now its a shell of what it used to be.

OMG I just found you and I wasn't even looking. What a blessing!

i went there erlier today and it looks different plus the kitchen area is partially demolished and we couldnt get in

cnt wait to go

Hey motts. Me and a friend went hear a few weeks ago, just taking pitchures of the outside. After reviewing them i noticed we caught what looks to be a ghost standing in a window looking straight down at us!! U can see everything waste up on the thing!!. Sooo creepy.. i just noticed it ten minits ago and my arms are still shaking!

Will someone go here with me? I have a fascination with stuff like this but all my friends are afraid of cops (or ghosts). I need some friends who aren't bitches.

The Room that your in in this pic is now completely destroyed. The 2nd floor caved into the 1st floor, and there is no roof. I have vids, as well as a pic of a ghost staring at me through a window if anyone wonts to see it. Motts?

It's funny... This place is right by my aunt's house, which i just got back from. and i saw this place... We didn't see this front entrace cause we went in another entrace, near the Nurse's dorms. Actually, the Nurse's dorms have been turn into a bee school, were we went to help our cousin extract honey. We saw the back of the building, where the fire had been. At the time we didn't know much about the place, but it was creepy, and the air, including the Nurse quarters, reeked of death, or more of decay and some diesise(srry 4 spellling). maybe that was just my fear... anyways me nd my sissy poked around the nurse's quarters. lots of rooms with desks, and an old, creepy bathroom. The second floor was an old police headquarters, and we found some old reports ( <:O!), but then it was all the bee school. The basement smelled of death, but there were old county fair signs. Just a creepy place to be, wish we could've gone in the actual building!

does anyone know what the security is like here?
my friend really wants me to go with them because i go to Paul Dever all the time but every places security is different...

I hear ever since the kids stopped coming, so did the police. But I could be wrong about the authorities. I want or might go there today just to take a peek. Not to vandilize, not to commit any felony. Thats not why I want to go. I wouldnt do anything of the sort to begin with. Im attracted to abandoned buildings, they interest me to an extent. Kind of like how it interested you Motts. I want to go inside, but there is risk of asbestos exposer. So me and my two friends will stay on the grounds and maybe take a few snap shots. Before they finally decide to demolish it. The building is still up, they have not demolished it. And it is very creepy, the vibe of that building gets to me. It is gorgious though. Absolutely beautiful. But the vandalism is such a disappointment, I read about the fires yesterday and all I could do was shake my head in disappointment. I hope to capture perfect angles of this building. You did a very wonderful job with these images Motts. I adore them, and you were very lucky to go inside.