Originally built in 1904, Norwich State Hospital consisted of one building, but rapidly grew to accomodate the criminally insane, tuberculosis patients, the elderly, and drug abusers. It closed in 1996 and has been abandoned since.
@JulieB My brother used to do work there, visiting patients as a caseworker. I remember him telling me that of all the psych hospitals he's been in, this was the creepiest of the buildings themselves. Even though the hospital practices were modern, there weren't any changes to the building to make it feel welcoming. Things like being able to hear someone in heels walking from all the way down a long hallway.
@edyother @JulieB it was a wild set of buildings. I wish they had saved them as they were in fact very pretty but I do truly understand just how unsettling of a place it was on many levels
"Yes, and I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. You tear your history down, man! '30 years old, let’s smash it to the floor and put a car park here!' I have seen it in stories. I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We’ve redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!” And people were going, “No, surely not, no. No one was alive then!” - Eddie Izzard (Dress to Kill)
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