List of defunct Massachusetts State Mental Facilities

This is a list of defunct state mental hospitals and schools in Massachusetts:

State hospitals
  • Boston State Hospital - demolished; now mixed-use
  • Danvers State Hospital - demolished due to recurring unexplainable fires in the west wing; its original staging has been repurposed into the building Avalon Bay at Danvers; admittance is no longer allowed; property is owned by Avalon Condominium Company
  • Foxborough State Hospital - half demolished; condominiums
  • Gaebler Children's Center - demolished; land labeled as a park
  • Gardner State Hospital - buildings converted into prison
  • Grafton State Hospital - admittance not permitted; owned by the state; MPs patrol frequently; one must work at Job Corps in order to gain admittance
  • Medfield State Hospital - standing, allowed to walk grounds from dawn till dusk, no admittance in buildings
  • Metropolitan State Hospital - mostly demolished for condominiums; one building remains abandoned on the property and one was rehabilitated into condominiums
  • Northampton State Hospital - demolished; empty field
  • Pondville State Hospital - partly demolished; part converted into Caritas Southwood Community Hospital, also defunct
  • Rutland Heights State Hospital - demolished; land unused; future unknown
  • Taunton State Hospital - hospital demolished; other buildings active; future unknown
    • Lovering Colony - demolished; land unused
    • Simeon E. Borden (Raynham Farm) Colony - demolished; land in use by the town of Raynham
  • Westborough State Hospital - currently being demolished for condominiums
  • Worcester State Hospital - 95% demolished; Hooper Turret and Woodward Building (end of left wing) remain as of October 2014. The clock tower was demolished in 2012, to make way for a parking lot. A replica of the clocktower was later rebuilt (in the same spot) as a tribute to the old Worcester State Hospital. The new clock tower is visible from Route 9 West in downtown Shrewsbury, MA near the Shrewsbury/Worcester town line or from Clocktower Drive in Worcester MA.

State schools

Sanitariums

Reform schools

Private institutions
  • Massachusetts State Hospitals, hdl:2452/625416 – via State Library of Massachusetts electronic repository. (Various documents).
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