Abandoned Danvers State Mental Hospital
This coffee table style book illustrates the entire life of danvers from historical imagery of the late 1800s pictures from within danvers in 1974 just before the centralized model of mental health care was abandoned and finally images of the relic that dominated hawthorne hill for years.
Abandoned danvers state mental hospital. Ghosts of danvers state hospital insane asylum said to be the inspiration for h p. Danvers state hospital history. In 1873 the need for another psychiatric hospital to serve the boston population had risen once again. See more ideas about danvers hospital abandoned asylums.
The laundry is a large utilitarian one story brick building. Aug 23 2018 explore michidermot s board danvers state hospital followed by 555 people on pinterest. Danvers had previously been called salem village and was the site of the famous salem witch trials of 1690 the name having been changed to distance itself. It was built under the watchful eye of the remarkable boston architect nathaniel jeremiah bradlee.
The scenic vistas fresh air and acres of farm land. Danvers state hospital an abandoned psychiatric hospital danvers state hospital was a psychiatric hospital in danvers massachusetts usa and opened in 1878 at a cost of 1 5 million. 1984 national register of historic places nomination form. The danvers state hospital also known as the state lunatic hospital at danvers the danvers lunatic asylum and the danvers state insane asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in danvers massachusetts it was built in 1874 and opened in 1878 under the supervision of prominent boston architect nathaniel jeremiah bradlee on an isolated site in rural massachusetts.
Known under several different names such as state lunatic hospital at danvers the danvers state insane asylum or the danvers lunatic asylum and built almost at the end of the 19 th century in 1874 the danvers state hospital served the town of danvers for over one hundred years. The hospital opened on may 1st 1878 and dr. A site called hawthorne hill also known as hathorne hill in danvers was chosen for the new hospital. May was appointed superintendent through 1880 images abandoned since 1992 and demolished in 2006 the danvers state hospital once occupied a site of over 500 acres.
Walter jackson freeman ii an american physician conducted numerous lobotomy procedures in the hospital. The asylums constructed in tewskbury worcester taunton and northampton were already quite overcrowded. Sunset over the abandoned danvers state hospital.