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Rhode Island >
Exeter >
The Ladd School
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This location has been labeled as Demolished, and therefore can be viewed by anyone.
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What used to be a scattered assortment of more than a dozen buildings designed for the care and rehabilitation of mental patients. Only a handful of the original buildings remain. As of summer 2004, new buildings are being constructed on the property. There's been a rumor that one of the older buildings was going to be refurbished in some way. Set into the woods off of Route 2 in Exeter, on the same grounds as a drug rehabilitation center, and by a large cemetery.
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Type: Campus
Status: Demolished
Accessibility: Easy
Recommendation: forget it
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asbestos
rust
unsafe flooring
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The cylindrical Fogarty building is very interesting. It looks like a big blender. Access to the roof is possible giving you a view of the surrounding area.
Exeter is a creepy town, from vampire legends to ghosts. The asylum is isolated in the woods. We visited on a rainy night and the atmosphere was pure creepiness.
Aside from having plenty of weird physical features (padded rooms, chairs with straps surrounded by medical machinery), there are a lot of sub/urban legends about this place being haunted. Rhode Island is a small state where everyone knows everyone else, and it isn't hard to find someone who had an uncle or whatever that did time here, and was abused.
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fences
part-time guard
wooden boarding
US Job Corps at entrance
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flashlight
long pants / sleeves
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Breathing Mask, Camera, Extra Batteries
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From: http://www.theladdschool.com/
Founded in 1907, by Dr. William Gleason, Chairman of the Providence School Committee, the so-called Rhode Island School for the Feeble Minded began on a farm in Exeter, RI, and was modelled after the then Massachusettes School for the Feeble Minded, better known today as the Fernald State Institution in Waltham, MA. It's original purpose was for the training of mildy retarded to socially and morally delinquent youths in domestic sciences, and factory and farm work, for their eventual parole, hopeful discharge and subsequent integration into society, by their placement in foster homes and work programs. ... Oftentimes, in the institutions earliest decades, adolescents of relatively normal intelligence were often sent to Exeter for sexual promiscuity, hyperactivity, epilepsy, truancy, and other perceived defects.
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As early as the 1960's organizations backed by State officials and emboldened by a gradual shift in public attitude toward the mentally handicapped sought the closing of the Ladd School, and the eventual end to instituionlization et al in Rhode Island, though it was many decades before Rhode Islanders would indeed see an end to Ladd. Overcrowded for all it's years in existence, the Ladd School reached a peak population documenting in excess of 1,000 patients in the late 1960's. Finally in 1977, a class-action lawsuit was brought against the State and then governor Bruce Sundlun by the Ladd School Parent's Association, when a routine investigation at the institution spurned months of furthering investigations unveiling years of medical neglect attributable to a number of patient deaths.
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n 1986, Rhode Island Governor Edward DiPrete announced at a press conference the official phasing out of the Ladd School, and eight years later, the institution closed it's doors for good. ... |
More at http://www.theladdschool.com/, including updated information on demolished buildings, photography, in-depth historical reports, urbex journals, and other fun stuff.
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News Channel 10 did a story in October of 2003 on the school. They had uncovered, using UE websites as research, that patient records had been left in the building. The state was embarrassed and moved in. The once easily accessible buildings were boarded up and all the records were removed. Because of the media, police now regularly patrol the grounds.
The Providence Journal also followed the story. If you go to the archives, you can read the articles. You can also find microfilm from 1994 when the school closed. Go back far enough, you can read articles from when the place opened in 1907.
Articles can also be found regarding allegations of patient abuse.
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Apparently condos are being built on the site. Get there before it is all torn down. Several buildings are already gone.
Addendum: The plans are finalized for a Firefighting Training Academy for all Rhode Island stations. It's fate is sealed and it is already being demolished. If you want to see it, it is now or never.
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2012
Mon, Sep 10th, 2012
posted by Kurt
4 pictures
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Steed on 11/24/2019 1:00 PM.
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on Nov 24 19 at 13:00, Steed validated this location
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