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What a stunning building
Canada
Thu 06-19-2008
I agree. I love the cut stone buildings
DaveWilly
Thu 06-19-2008
By "save the clocktower" do you mean the building with the tower, or just the tower itself? Awesome building by the way, and amazing pictures!
Jason
Thu 06-19-2008
What a waste that this had to be destroyed. Newer construction just doesn't have the character these old ones do. Love the terraced balconies.
lexusdreams
Fri 06-20-2008
The building with the tower.
Motts
Fri 06-20-2008
so sad...
Stacy
Fri 06-20-2008
It looks so Beautiful.!!!!!!!!!!
Deb
Sat 06-21-2008
what a nice, simple composition on a beautiful sunny day
KBWS
Fri 07-11-2008
My husband and I took a ride by here yesterday, there's not much left now of the old section, and what's there now won't be there much longer. :-(
Van Gogo
Sun 07-20-2008
oh look at those little balistrades ! they're gone
guitorman
Fri 08-29-2008
Make appartments out of these buildings. I don't know where it is located but it shouldnt be possible to demolish such nice and old buildings!
Ingmar (Holland)
Mon 09-15-2008
i was there last night and that shit was scary man
bird
Sun 12-07-2008
hay motts was it hard getting in the building!
haunted89
Fri 04-23-2010
It really is quite sad that this building may soon be gone. Actually it is beyond sad, it is staggering. I have been going to see it almost at every opprotunity since I was 12 years old, thats 15 years now. The idea that someone in the State Gov can't find a way to save it, its sheer lazyness and is in my eyes unforgivable.

The new hospital is going up fast and looks like it will be truly splendid - by modern standards - but the Clock Tower is a work of art, something you simply do not see anymore.

Motts I have to hand it to you, and I have to thank you. You have collected the largest collection of pictures of Worcester State Hospital I have ever seen, and it, it really means something to me to know that I can come here and look - and remember what it is, and what it was, a standing tribute to one of the most beautiful structures I have ever known - that soon might be a pile. Heartbreaking, it really is.
Wizid
Fri 04-08-2011
Thanks; it is a baffling decision to tear down the clock tower. This structure and even the old wing that were standing were in decent shape - seemed like prime candidates for preservation to me.

When they hauled away the fire damaged parts of the Kirkbride building in the 1990s, the gaping holes that led to the other parts of the building were carefully paved with original stone, and it all looked pretty damn good. I mean it didn't look like the typical "abandoned eyesore" that most people despise. I really thought these remnants would be around for a long time... I guess that stone work was all for naught.
Motts
Fri 04-08-2011
My family is from Mass, My grand father died in a TB hospital, a step grand father died in a scitso (sp) hospital, I cant find either, my family says Worcester mass, or Rutland mass.
Laura
Wed 07-13-2011

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