{"id":259,"date":"2008-10-28T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2008-10-27T18:25:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T22:25:52","slug":"google-maps-tears-down-dsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/google-maps-tears-down-dsh","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Tears Down DSH!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"484\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=danvers,+ma&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=48.77566,74.794922&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=42.581131,-70.974169&amp;s=AARTsJpzWa-Eo7FYX2Sqq4YtAg-Oob-C6w&amp;ll=42.581368,-70.974104&amp;spn=0.00474,0.010386&amp;z=16&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/>Of course they didn&#8217;t really tear it down, but Google Maps did replace the old aerial photograph of Danvers State Hospital (which included the full Kirkbride in all its glory) with a more recent photo showing a half built Avalon Danvers. It was always something of a comfort that even though Danvers was gone, Google Maps still had an image of the untouched Kirkbride up. Now they&#8217;ve updated and the illusion is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;bird&#8217;s eye view&#8221; of the former DSH campus still <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.live.com\/default.aspx?v=2&#038;FORM=LMLTCP&#038;cp=r2x88h92jxyp&#038;style=b&#038;lvl=1&#038;tilt=-90&#038;dir=0&#038;alt=-1000&#038;scene=2368337&#038;phx=0&#038;phy=0&#038;phscl=1&#038;where1=danvers%2C%20ma&#038;encType=1\">shows the full Kirkbride<\/a>. But you&#8217;d better see it while you can. I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t be around for too much longer either. There&#8217;ll always be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicaerials.com\/?poi=2525\" target=\"_blank\">Historic Aerials<\/a> of course, but somehow it&#8217;s not the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course they didn&#8217;t really tear it down, but Google Maps did replace the old aerial photograph of Danvers State Hospital (which included the full Kirkbride in all its glory) with a more recent photo showing a half built Avalon Danvers. It was always something of a comfort that even though Danvers was gone, Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,28,13,32],"tags":[59,229],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-demolition","category-pictures","category-web-sites","tag-danvers-state-hospital","tag-google-maps"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}