So what has earned Danvers State such distinctions? Actually, when the hospital was constructed in 1887, it was designed (by Nathaniel J Bradlee) according to the theories of mental health ...

Even the ominous Danvers State Hospital, once described as “the scariest ... the Massachusetts chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, said he was glad to see Danvers go.

A haunted history, Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts was built ... understanding of mental illnesses was not nearly as advanced as it is today. Reports say that those with intellectual ...

It’s the former Danvers State Hospital, the setting of a 2001 horror movie and a painful reminder of the brutalities of institutionalized mental-health care. Now, Danvers State is shedding its past.

A mental asylum in the US has a dark and worrying history. At Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts, patients were recorded as suffering overcrowding and rumours that some corpses were left to ...