43 Comments Posted by jt

These are beautifully haunting photos done perfectly in black and white. Love your website and photos, Tom. Would not want to have to wander around this place alone, though.

Kind of reminds me of the gates to Auschwitz....

Nice Motts, looks like you got a great shot of one of the "Kenny Dumonds"!

I live about a few hundred feet away from this place and was very sad to see it go. The cheap housing that is replacing it has no character at all compared to the old Kirkbride! The primary component of most of it is cheap glue board; I'll will be very surprised if any of it lasts 20 years without developing serious structural problems.

Anywho, from what I understand Ken was a charge attendant at the hospital, he painted many of these around the place, the most numerous of them were found in the newer buildings (memorial group) on the other side of the campus. There was a room on the third floor in I do believe G ward that was full of scenic paintings just like this one.

Thanks for taking all of these! Makes me wish I went in a few more times to get more shots myself........

Hey Ludlum,
I think this happened at a lot of places. I myself live next to the former Northampton State Hospital; from what I understand, people that worked in the Kirkbride section of it went to work one day and were then told that it would be their last day!
From what I've been told folks pretty much just dropped what they did and left, which would correspond with what I saw in there.

Amazing shots- the expanse of this place is incredible! The shear size and the lattice-like iron work makes it look like the perfect place to shoot some kind of SCI-FI movie! Maybe "Terminator 5" :-)

Its a shower head, Liquid comes out of it to clear down the top so it would not be blood!

It looks like a mortician's aspirator, which I do believe can be used to both suck fluids out 0f a body as well as put them it (think formaldehyde).

Nice work, I went to grade school across the street and know some girls who went to Eden Hall but never made it inside.

The crank is for 'don't know whats it's called' the sifters. A tray with holes if you like. Like a mesh for sifting dirt.

If you look to the right near the door it looks like the outline of a man standing there. You could picture a nurse saying 'right you have 5 mins' and standing and watching! weird!

Photo from above. Can't disclose where this Eagle river power station is but this place looks awesome even from space. http://img.photobucket...one/PowerStation.jpg

Where'd the Coors Light go?

Dude, you're not blurry any more.
I'll credit Scotty for fixing the transporter later.

Any body notice the PC keyboard tucked under the desk on the left?

Vandals.