Danvers State Mental Hospital Now
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Danvers state mental hospital now. Danvers state hospital was one of many hospitals built in massachusetts during the industrial revolution. It fell victim to vandals and arsonists graffiti artists and scrappers. Bradlee superintendents image galleries time lines videos historic images maps floor plans patient artwork records files. Over the next 20 years the population of the hospital swelled to more than 2 000 patients despite its official capacity of 450.
Danvers state hospital also known as the danvers lunatic asylum is located in danvers massachusetts united states. The remaining and lasting impression of danvers state hospital was that it was a snake pit where the mentally ill went to languish and often die. The past of the danvers state hospital ma now converted to cozy apartments is haunting. Danvers state hospital was a psychiatric hospital built in 1874 on hathorne hill where the salem witch trials judge john hathorne once lived.
Danvers state hospital was one of the most notorious asylums during its time. 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 1870 s of the closing of the facility at south boston. Its good reputation proved to be danvers undoing. Ghost hunting at danvers state hospital.
In our first then now contributor monica noury takes us back to 1874 when the infamous danvers state hospital was built. The danvers state hospital had been a mysterious place for many years. Patients were forced to walk naked live in waste and endure terrible treatments such as shock therapy lobotomy and isolation. If you think that the hippocratic oath can stop doctors at mental hospitals from committing outrageous acts think twice.
By 1900 danvers state hospital employed 125 people and had treated more than 9 500 patients since opening. The psychiatric hospital hospital was built in 1874 and opened its doors in 1878 it was build on many acres designed to be self sustained and isolated from the rest of the state. Soon after its closure danvers state hospital would become the haunted house on the hill where kids dared one another to sneak in. Things changed in the 1920s and that horrible period formed the ghosts we know today.