Danvers State Mental Hospital Today
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.
Danvers state mental hospital today. Bradlee superintendents image galleries time lines videos historic images maps floor plans patient artwork records files. The hill is a 257 feet high glacial drumlin located in danvers which was originally known as salem village until its official name change in 1752. It fell victim to vandals and arsonists graffiti artists and scrappers. 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.
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. Construction on danvers state hospital started in 1874 and the first. 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. The main building remains looking the same as it did back in the day like the addams.
Danvers state hospital also known as the danvers lunatic asylum is located in danvers massachusetts united states. Soon after its closure danvers state hospital would become the haunted house on the hill where kids dared one another to sneak in. The complete history and architecture of the danvers state hospital danvers state insane asylum the state lunatic hospital at danvers danvers insane hospital including nathaniel j. 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.
Just a quick video of me walking around the condo complex that used to be danvers state mental hospital. Sunset over the abandoned danvers state hospital. It was part of the countrywide concept at least in the late 1800s that people with psychological problems needed to be cured inside specially made facilities. Danvers state hospital was one of many hospitals built in massachusetts during the industrial revolution.
Danvers state hospital was one of the most notorious asylums during its time. Things changed in the 1920s and that horrible period formed the ghosts we know today. Danvers state hospital was a psychiatric hospital built in 1874 on hathorne hill where the salem witch trials judge john hathorne once lived.