Kirkbride Buildings - Historic Insane Asylum Architecture

Source: Google Maps

Above is Google’s Street View of Worcester State Hospital. Click on the image and drag your mouse around to explore it. You can see the Clocktower and other remaining pieces of the Kirkbride, as well as the rest of the hospital campus. (more…)

There’s a location in Second Life modeled after Danvers State Hospital. It’s called Ryder Asylum. If you’re a Second Life user, you can teleport there from this page. You can also rent rooms in the Kirkbride. (more…)

At least once a month I browse through my site statistics’ list of web pages linking to KirkbrideBuildings.com. Besides links from the usual asylum and urban exploration sites, KB.com gets a good number of referrals from the not-so-well-traveled corners of the web. Sometimes I find interesting bits of information and personal anecdotes by visiting these pages, most of time I don’t though, and occasionally I see things that I wish I could forget. Anyway, filtered out for your safety and convenience, here are a handful of referring pages from over the years that you may find worth looking at: (more…)

In case you didn’t notice, I added a little random selection of photos from my Kirkbride set on Flickr. It’s toward the bottom of the sidebar to the right of the main content. Scroll down a little and you’ll see it. Click on one of the thumbnails to view a photo full-size. You can also click on the “My Kirkbride Set” link to view the set’s home page. (more…)