1 Comments Posted by charchar19@charter.net

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This is my first time visiting your site. I have to say have to say having been an employee of the former Northampton State Hospital, I found most of the comments, from people visiting the site both ignorarant and appalling. I found you as a photagrapher brilliant. you captured the devastation of a once beautiful building and it's architectural design and use of light. This building should have been maintained, updated, obviously there was equipmnet that would no longer have been in use. The building clearly would have been have been more beneficial to the treatment of the patients during the time of their stay, with the conjuction of medication, which I am sure you discovered. I really hope you still read your posts so you know how much I appreciated seeing your pictures after all these years. Just alittle insight, I grew up with a family that worked at the State Hospital, I remember the Main building when it was a functioning building, when I started at the hospital, it was still in fair condition, and in my teens we too used to sneek in. Only at the time we never thought it would close so we never thought to take pictures. Thanks