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	Danvers State Hospital History - Abandoned Photography : opacity.us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Danvers was a model for humane treatment at the time, with no restraint policies invoked and the hospital instituted a pathology laboratory that was held in very high regard in the medical field.
		The hospital soon filled with such varied types of patients that it soon became a problem; geriatrics, the mentally disabled, alcoholics, drug addicts, the criminally insane and all other people with varied degrees of mental illness were mixing together under one roof.
		Danvers State Hospital officially closed it's doors in the summer of 1992 in response to the many allegations of overcrowding, abuse and neglect in court.
	www.opacity.us /site22.htm (503 words)

	Danvers State Hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Danvers State Hospital (officially known as the "State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers") was built in 1878 under the supervision of prominent Boston architect Nathaniel J. Bradlee, on an isolated site in rural Massachusetts.
		While the hospital was originally established to provide residential treatment and care to the mentally ill, its functions expanded to include a training program for nurses in 1889 and a pathological research laboratory in 1895.
		The Danvers State Insane Asylum may have been the inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham Sanitarium, which in turn was the inspiration for Arkham Asylum in the Batman comic book series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danvers_State_Hospital (372 words)

	Psychiatric hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another type of psychiatric hospital is designed for long-term care, a combination hospital and prison for the "criminally insane," typically for people with a psychotic illness who have committed serious crimes.
		Many state hospitals in the United States were built in the 1850s and 1860s on the Kirkbride Plan, an architectural style meant to have curative effect.
		For this reason, state hospital patients were usually from the lower class, as the mentally ill from families with money often had enough private care to avoid being labelled a public menace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychiatric_hospital (2760 words)

	danvershistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The hospital was built to accommodate the overflow from the Boston Lunatic Hospital (later Boston State Hospital) and
		the asylum at the State Almshouse at Tewksbury.
		Danvers State Hospital is one of the few remaining hospitals in the country in the architectural design of Thomas
	www.massasylums.com /danvershistory.html (397 words)

	Antique Lumber From Danvers State Hospital
		Hospitals were moved from the cities and into rural areas where patients could enjoy the views of forests, farm fields and gardens.
		Danvers was a multi-acre, self-contained facility that ultimately was comprised of planting fields and over forty buildings including medical, office and dormitory structures as well as workshops, storage and farming buildings, chapels and cottages for staff and their families.
		Discussions began in 1981, before the hospital was even closed, between town and state officials and later among different planning committees, to investigate redevelopment opportunities for the architecturally significant and historically rich complex, which is on the National Historic Register.
	www.longleaflumber.com /Danvers_State_Hospital.cfm (762 words)

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		When state properties with cemeteries are sold or leased in the future, the bill would set aside one half of one percent of the proceeds for a trust to pay for the up keep of the graveyards.
		The group was formed three years ago to ensure the two cemeteries at Danvers State are properly restored and the 768 people buried there are recognized.
		Beverly resident Mark Giles, a former patient at Danvers State and a memorial committee member, showed slides to the State Administration committee yesterday that featured photographs of the overgrowth at many of the state properties.
	www.fredberry.com /articles/salem31301.html (679 words)

	Former Danvers hospital sale stalls - The Boston Globe
		Local preservationists and the developer wanting to buy Danvers State Hospital will meet in court Wednesday for a hearing to determine whether the sale should be delayed until a trial can rule on whether historic preservation laws have been violated.
		In its lawsuit, the Danvers Preservation Fund Inc., a nonprofit formed by local residents, argued that the town and state, particularly the Massachusetts Historical Commission, did not allow enough public input into the redevelopment plan, or consider its impact on historic preservation.
		Spokesmen for each state agency declined to comment on the lawsuit, citing a general policy of not discussing pending litigation.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/10/23/former_danvers_hospital_sale_stalls (836 words)

	Old site's face lift approaches - The Boston Globe
		Nearly two decades after state and local officials began discussing the future of the Danvers State Hospital site, a plan to redevelop a portion of the sprawling property is approaching reality.
		It was shuttered by the administration of Governor William F. Weld in 1992, as part of a policy to close and consolidate state hospitals.
		The Danvers State Memorial Committee, meanwhile, is unhappy that the development will not include a remembrance hall within one of the site's existing or planned buildings, as the group had requested.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/06/16/old_sites_face_lift_approaches (1121 words)

	RealEstateJournal \| Converting Grim Asylums Into Grand Apartments
		Danvers was the setting for the horror movie "Session 9," about a worker who goes insane while removing asbestos from the hospital.
		Danvers State -- like many state hospitals -- was founded in the 19th century on the idea that the mentally ill could be helped by moving out of cities and into more bucolic settings of farm fields and Victorian gardens.
		Of that, $4.2 million is going to pay for housing for the mentally ill elsewhere in the state and $2 million to the town of Danvers for local schools, historic preservation projects and affordable housing around town.
	www.realestatejournal.com /buysell/markettrends/20050728-corkery.html?refresh=on (1122 words)

	Danvers Massachusetts: Historical Sites
		Danvers Plains took advantage of important crossroads and the introduction of the railroad in the 1840s to become the prominent commercial center.
		Putnamville and Danvers Highlands were noted for their important and early shoe manufacturing industry, while farms throughout Danvers became known far and wide for the Danvers half-long carrot, and the Danvers onion, still popular today.
		The Danvers Library was the result of funds given by native son George Peabody, internationally acclaimed banker and philanthropist.
	etext.virginia.edu /salem/witchcraft/Danvers.html (2886 words)

	The lost souls of Danvers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Now, fellow survivors of the state mental hospital where some 300 patients were buried in anonymous graves are leading an effort to restore and preserve their burial sites.
		A bill authorizing the state to sell the 500-acre Danvers property passed the Legislature last year, and the committee wants to ensure the cemeteries are restored before the property is sold.
		Marie Balter, who was mistakenly diagnosed as schizophrenic as a teen-ager and spent 11 years in Danvers, said she would not be alive today if it were not for the care she received from hospital staff.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/19980602/FP_001.htm (755 words)

	Danvers State Hospital: Abandoned Hospitals For the Mentally Ill Morph Into Housing - New York Times
		Overcoming the mental hospital stigma was difficult for Linda Jones, 39, who coordinates client services for a diversity training firm and grew up not far from a mental institution, Boston State Hospital.
		Fifteen percent of the homes in the former hospital will be occupied by clients of the state's Department of Mental Health, and 15 percent will be set aside for low-income residents.
		Robert D. Coble, the mayor of Columbia, S.C., said the conversion of an abandoned 178-acre state hospital campus in the heart of the city into 1,300 housing units and 500,000 square feet of retail space is his city's most significant economic project.
	travel2.nytimes.com /2006/01/15/realestate/15nati.html?pagewanted=all (1358 words)

	Help Save Danvers State Hospital Petition
		The Kirkbride building of Danvers State Hospital is in danger of being destroyed.
		Located in Danvers, MA., the Kirkbride building was built in the 1870's and was in use until the 1980's.
		The Help Save Danvers State Hospital Petition to whom it may concern, was created by Anyone and written by Michael Carey (aaronsynn@earthlink.net).
	www.petitiononline.com /dssehl/petition.html (219 words)

	A peek at Danvers State Hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		DANVERS -- Bristling with camera equipment and shivering in the biting cold, they came for a look at a local legend, an imposing blend of brick, spire and shadow that one visitor called "a mystery on top of a mystery."
		From its founding in 1878 to its closing in 1991, the mental asylum atop Hathorne Hill has been an enigma to many North Shore residents, who saw little of what went on there when it was considered a cutting-edge treatment center, and have been barred from its grounds since it closed.
		Trespassers have been sneaking on to the site since the hospital closed, breaking into and exploring the buildings, which have been rotting from the inside for years and have been condemned as structurally unsound.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20030302/LN_010.htm (519 words)

	THE CASTLE ON THE HILL
		For at the hospital, I see the "revolving door" spin too fast; the people coming in for desperately needed help, too sick; the insurance companies' pressure to discharge, too strong; and the community supports too decimated through cutbacks to really assist those we are mandated to serve.
		At the same time a reservoir was constructed through a mutual agreement between state and town, by which the town was to furnish water and the hospital to build a reservoir, keep it in repair, and pay $1000 a year for 20 years to the town.
		The hospital history has been marked by three alarming fires, which did no personal damage; one started from the drying room of the old laundry in 1899, one originated from defective electrical wiring in one of the towers connecting two of the buildings occupied by patients, in February, 1912.
	ramseursdanversstatehosp.com /dsh5.htm (4427 words)

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		Danvers State Hospital is one of the most creepy, beautiful buildings in the world.
		Unfortunately, Danvers wasn’t exclusive to this problem, as mental hospitals all across the country had budgets and staff reduced.
		The result of course was that hospitals became overcrowded, unkempt and were for the most part shut down.
	www.mantaraypictures.com /danvers.htm (448 words)

	Epinions.com - Endgame: A Tribute To Essex Mountain Sanatorium & Danvers State Hospital
		Danvers was erected in 1872 and the almost 200 acre facility has seen thousands of patients come and go since its inception.
		Danvers has long since been revered as one of the most impressive asylums in the northeast part of the country.
		With my trip to Danvers I am hoping to capture a piece of history, to try and grasp some sliver of what life must have been like for the residents, staff and groundskeepers when the asylum was in its heyday.
	www.epinions.com /content_3564281988 (3910 words)

	Sale of State Hospitals dsmc
		It seemed only fair that after being warehoused at Danvers State for the past 125 years, ex-patients should be included in the decision as to what was going to happen to the property.
		The recommendation included all of the points that the Danvers State Memorial Committee was advocating for: 10% housing, 10% jobs, cemetery restoration and maintenance, and the use of the Chapel as a Hall of Remembrance.
		At this point the Danvers State Memorial Committee is planning a strategy to convince DCAM and the developer to meet our demands for 10% housing, 10% jobs, and preservation of Our Lady of the Hill Chapel for a Hall of Remembrance.
	dsmc.info /sale.shtml (1868 words)

	The Parent Station :: View topic - Haunting of the Week... Danvers State Hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Today, Levasseur works as an assistant to the chief nurse executive at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, a career she said was inspired by her father's teachings about the importance of caring for the mentally ill and sick, as well as to the experiences she had growing up at the mental hospital.
		Murch is of the opinion that the hospital is haunted, if not in the traditional sense, then by the negative energies given off by thousands of mentally ill who suffered there.
		Murch's understanding of the haunting of Danvers State is shared to a degree by practicing Salem witches Sean Poirier and Christian Day, co-hosts of the Festival of the Dead.
	www.theparentstation.com /Forum/viewtopic.php?t=35139 (2073 words)

	Kirkbride Plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The establishment of state mental hospitals in the U.S. is partly due to reformer Dorothea Dix, who vividly testified to the New Jersey legislature in 1844, describing the state's treatment of people with mental illness: they were being housed in county jails, private homes and the basements of public buildings.
		Dix's effort led to the construction of the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, the first asylum built on the Kirkbride Plan.
		Many Kirkbride Plan asylums still stand, abandoned, neglected, and vandalized, though several are still in use or have been renovated for re-use.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kirkbride_Plan (381 words)

	Haunted Salem - The lore, and lure, of Danvers State Hospital
		Levasseur grew on the grounds of Danvers State Hospital, in a house lent to her father, hospital administrator Gerald Richards.
		Today, Levasseur works as an assistant to the chief nurse executive at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, a career she said was inspired by her father's teachings about the importance of caring for the mentally ill and sick, as well as to the experiences she had growing up at the mental hospital.
		In the way the state guards it against intruders, the publicity it has achieved and the native draw of the architecture, Danvers State and the Kirkbride have moved beyond the realm of a haunted place and become local legend, Poirier said.
	www.hauntedsalem.com /news/oct03-dh-danversstate.html (2109 words)

	home dsmc
		At state hospitals all across Massachusetts there is a terrible sight: row upon row of small concrete markers with only a number.
		The photographs on the left show you a numbered grave marker from a state hospital and, next to it, a pet cemetery.
		Today ex-patients from state institutions in Massachusetts and our allies are leading the struggle to have cemeteries at state institutions restored and properly memorialized.
	dsmc.info (487 words)

	CHAPTER 180 OF THE ACTS OF 1997
		The developer shall consider the report of the Danvers State Hospital reuse task force, which is on file with the divisions, in the formulation of the master plan.
		Upon completion of the master plan, the developer shall submit a copy of said master plan to the joint committee on state administration, the joint committee on housing and urban development, the house and senate committees on ways and means and the inspector general.
		To meet the expenditures necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, the state treasurer shall, upon request of the governor, issue and sell bonds of the commonwealth in amounts specified by the governor from time to time not exceeding, in the aggregate, the sum of $5,000,000.
	www.mass.gov /legis/laws/seslaw97/sl970180.htm (2022 words)

	Danvers State Insane Asylum
		Kirkbride C Ward is demolished.The water tower remains standing and will remain on the highlands until the new cellular tower is built off site to replace it.
		In 1878 the State Lunatic Hospital in Danvers was erected, under the supervision of prominent Boston architect Nathaniel J, Bradlee, in an extremely remote location.
		Preston a former DSH employee for 24 years tells his story for the first time.
	www.danvers-state-ia.com /home.html (106 words)

	Danvers State Hospital: Abandoned Hospitals For the Mentally Ill Morph Into Housing - New York Times
		Overcoming the mental hospital stigma was difficult for Linda Jones, 39, who coordinates client services for a diversity training firm and grew up not far from a mental institution, Boston State Hospital.
		Rebecca Macauley, a medical secretary who spent about five years as a patient living at Northampton State Hospital during the 1980's and later worked as a security guard there, is glad to see the property developed.
		Fifteen percent of the homes in the former hospital will be occupied by clients of the state's Department of Mental Health, and 15 percent will be set aside for low-income residents.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/01/15/realestate/15nati.html?ex=1294981200&en=2cdc9bb717029de3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (904 words)

	Ghosts - Supernatural Message Boards > Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, MA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Yes, Danvers and those places like it are awesome places just to be near and for most the Tuesday afternoon walking tours is enough to sense what waits on the other side of the brick walls.
		During our investigation at Danvers, it was not the often frightening paranormal phenomena going all around us...the cries, voices, door slams, banging on empty "cell" doors (most of the cell doors had been long since removed), footsteps, running, pushing and pinching...that got to us and finally forced us out.
		OK back to Danvers State, I still love the place even though I find myself feeling so overwhelmed at times, would still love to see the insides, LEAGALLY of course, and hold out a great hope that they will not distroy the place and find something to do with it that will leave it intact.
	www.ghostvillage.com /ghostcommunity/lofiversion/index.php?t743.html (3436 words)

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