The State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers was erected, under the supervision of prominent Boston architect Nathaniel J Bradlee, in an extremely rural, out-of-the-way location.
The immediate crisis which precipitated the building of a mental hospital north of Boston was the imminence in the early 's of the closing of the facility at South Boston. In , Worcester, Taunton and Northampton and the Tewksbury Asylum for chronic patients were already housing patients in buildings designed for ; another were scattered about in various other hospitals.
It included space for patients, attendants, and administration, reflecting a centralized approach to care. A circumferential and interior road network serviced the entire complex.
The hospital opened on May 1st, and the hospitals first patients arrived on May 13th. The hospital was also featured in the video game Painkiller in and served as the setting for the book Project 17, a fictional story about a group of teenagers who break into the old hospital. The Kirkbride building was also believed to be the inspiration for the Arkham Sanitarium in H. For more information on historic state hospitals, check out this article on abandoned mental hospitals in Massachusetts. Sources: Kirkbride, Thomas Story.
Philadelphia: Printers to the Commonwealth, Anderson, Katherine and John Duffy. Danvers State Hospital. Arcadia Publishing, Hogarty, Richard A.
The Medical Register of New England. Boston: Cupples and Hurd, Essex Institute, Danvers: From to Weird U. Sterling Publishing Co, Inc, My grandmother Charlotte McIntyre worked and lived at the Colony which was one of the nursing homes that was separate. I have many pictures of her and her dorm mates. I have written a novel based around her time thete and meeting my grandfather who lived on Liberty hill.
I have many record stories from my grandfather and from her letters. I remember driving up Route 1 in the summer when I was a kid, with my dad. It looked like a building out of a horror movie.
Now I feel said for the poor patients that lived there. I remember my mom work there as registered nurse for the 2 shift staff for many years and i remember my dad had to pick her up after 11 pm, that place look sooo scary at night.
Most of all, i did like the main enter of the place, it look like a manion from a movie or something, that was the only beautiful part of it. I am looking for the full name of a Dr. Hi Ingrid, That would be Dr. Francis X. Sullivan, my grandfather. He retired to Topsfield, passed away Beautiful building.
My brother and I drove up there a few years ago — we were curious about the new apartments — the apartment building reflect the architecture but neither of us have any desire to live there. We grew up in Lynnfield, knew that it was the asylum, never put together that Hathorne State School was related to a witch trial judge.
Place was creepy even now. I remember visiting my great grandpa there. The buildings were sold on June 27, to the DSF Group who have announced the property will undergo renovations. And though the buildings are off limits, there are tours of the grounds every second and forth Tuesday of the month that run from 10am to 12pm! Be the first to add a review to the Danvers State Hospital. Problem with this listing?
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Reviewed by James Fisher. November 18, This is no longer abandoned, there is a housing development on site.
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