Danvers State Hospital

Danvers State Hospital, also known as the Danvers Lunatic Asylum, and the Danvers State Insane Asylum, was a psychiatric hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts, open from 1878 until 1992. It is mentioned in H. P. Lovecraft's stories "Pickman's Model" and The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
The hospital complex was mostly demolished in 2006 to make way for a housing development. The derelict hospital was used as the set of the 2001 horror film Session 9.
==In Lovecraft's Works==
In "Pickman's Model", written in 1926, the character Richard Upton Pickman is said to have espoused "art theories and philosophic speculations wild enough to qualify him for the Danvers asylum".
In 1931's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a Newburyport station agent remarks:
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