{"id":76,"date":"2008-05-28T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-09-26T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T19:12:08","slug":"worcester-state-hospital-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/worcester-state-hospital-update","title":{"rendered":"Worcester State Hospital Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Worcester State Hospital\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/05\/28\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/05\/28\/1t.jpg\" alt=\"Worcester State Hospital\" width=\"484\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOver the weekend I stopped off at <a title=\"Worcester State Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/worcester\/\">Worcester State Hospital<\/a> to check out the demolition work. There&#8217;s still a good portion of the wing standing, but I was surprised at how much is gone. Gage Hall (the non-freestanding rotunda) and the section I believe was named Lincoln are mostly rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, the building seems much bigger with those pieces gone. I guess it has to do with how those parts blocked the view of the rest of the building from certain angles. Anyway, it won&#8217;t be long before the whole thing is gone. See it while you can.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Worcester State Hospital\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/05\/28\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/05\/28\/2t.jpg\" alt=\"Worcester State Hospital\" width=\"363\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Worcester State Hospital\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/05\/28\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/05\/28\/3t.jpg\" alt=\"Worcester State Hospital\" width=\"363\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Worcester State Hospital\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/05\/28\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/05\/28\/4t.jpg\" alt=\"Worcester State Hospital\" width=\"484\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I stopped off at Worcester State Hospital to check out the demolition work. There&#8217;s still a good portion of the wing standing, but I was surprised at how much is gone. Gage Hall (the non-freestanding rotunda) and the section I believe was named Lincoln are mostly rubble. Oddly, the building seems much [&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],"tags":[281,34,29],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-demolition","category-pictures","tag-demolition","tag-worcester","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\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}