{"id":357,"date":"2008-12-26T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2008-12-26T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T15:48:01","slug":"demolition-at-taunton-state-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/demolition-at-taunton-state-hospital","title":{"rendered":"Demolition at Taunton State Hospital?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/12\/26\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Taunton Asylum\" width=\"484\" height=\"296\" \/><br \/>\nThe other day I came across this <a title=\"Budget Recommendations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/bb\/cap\/fy2009\/rec\/agy\/hhhs450ehs3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">fiscal year 2009 resource summary<\/a> for the Massachusetts Office of Health &amp; Human Services. I wanted to save the bad news for after Christmas&#8230; One of the items in their budget is &#8220;Demolition at Taunton State Hospital.&#8221; It has an allocation of 1.3 million dollars. The <a title=\"Demolition at Taunton State Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/bb\/cap\/fy2009\/rec\/proj\/hhhs450ehsehs__0033.htm\" target=\"_blank\">full description<\/a> reads, &#8220;This funds the demolition of buildings damaged by fire in 2007. The fire damaged buildings are close to or contiguous to an operating DYS facility and represent a severe safety hazard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looks like plans are being made to knock down what&#8217;s left of the <a title=\"Taunton State Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/taunton\/\">Taunton Kirkbride<\/a> soon. The eventual demolition of the Kirkbride has been pretty much a given since the fire, but I think this is the first definite sign that it&#8217;s going to happen in the not too distant future. It&#8217;ll certainly be a sad day when that building comes down. It really had a unique and understated beauty that I haven&#8217;t seen at any other Kirkbrides. I expect most people who&#8217;ve seen the building would agree. It&#8217;s also a special building to me personally because it was the first Kirkbride I ever saw the inside of.<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note, the resource summary also <a title=\"Clocktower Prservation Study\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/bb\/cap\/fy2009\/rec\/proj\/hhhs450ehsdmh04033.htm\" target=\"_blank\">allocates $140,000<\/a> to fund &#8220;a study to preserve the vacant historic Worcester State Hospital Clock Tower building.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I came across this fiscal year 2009 resource summary for the Massachusetts Office of Health &amp; Human Services. I wanted to save the bad news for after Christmas&#8230; One of the items in their budget is &#8220;Demolition at Taunton State Hospital.&#8221; It has an allocation of 1.3 million dollars. The full description [&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],"tags":[186,29],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-demolition","tag-taunton-state-hospital","tag-worcester-state-hospital"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}