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Danvers State Hospital (Images of America)

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Perched high at the top of Hathorne Hill in what was once once the village of Salem, Danvers State Insane Asylum was once, for more than a century, a monument to brand new psychiatry and the myriad advances in mental health remedy. From the time it opened its doors in 1878 until they were shuttered for good in 1992, the asylum represented decades of reform, the physical embodiment of the heroic visions of Dorothea Dix and Thomas Story Kirkbride. It will stand abandoned until 2005, when demolition started. Together with a dedicated group of private citizens, the Danvers Historical Society fought to preserve the Kirkbride structure, an effort that would result within the reuse of the administration building and two additional wings. Danvers has earned a unique place in history; the shell of the unique Kirkbride building still stands overlooking the town. Regardless that it has been changed drastically, the asylum’s story continues as do efforts to memorialize it.

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