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I was a bit freaked by the girls face in door #1, but if you look between door #2 and #3 and look at the brown spot on the at the lower part of the white part of the wall, and follow it down into that faded area... if looks almost like someone being tortured on the wall... now thats creepy.

I was in there a couple months ago and there was still alot of stuff in there. I went thourgh the whole buliding and all the tunnels. Has anyone ever seen the homeless people that are suppost to be there and has anyone seen ghost.
ps your not aloud there there are big signs but you can park in the trees so no one sees your cars

great gallery mr. motts waiting patiently for the next one

You are a truly excellent photographer. You make me feel as if I were there.

this is a beautiful shot love the colors and those windows

Awsome! Awsome! Awsome!
Your web sight is by far they best on the subject of asylums I have ever seen, I would like to talk with you about a film script that I am writing,
email me bvofilms@localnet.com, Shawn

Thanks for the info. I wish that something could be done to save it. It's a beautiful building. Many people in my area think it should be demolished because it points out that we housed the mentally ill in poor conditions. I'm actually going to school as a history major to (hopefully) later become an activist to preserve historic buildings. They're disappearing right and left. Right now in my town, they are building a new jail and the old one will just be knocked down despite how old and beautiful it is. The Community Development group offered to restore this beautiful old bank building in my town and because they didn't get it done and it's been lingering the project is about to be shut down. The building will either be torn down or renovated into a restaurant or something like that.

Your site makes me even more sure of what I want to do for a living. The buildings are important to our history. Once they're gone, they're gone. Your work is important.

The buildings around the Kirkbride are being abated and demolished, and as far as I know the main building is slated for demolition, but there has been talk of patching up the roof for possible re-use.

MassDevelopment seems to be in charge of the demolition: http://massdevelopment.com/search/search.aspx?query=northampton

Motts,

How much of the buildings were left? I live close to NSH and last time I was up there, a large portion of one building was knocked down and there were bulldozers everywhere. Is the majority of the hospital still there? I thought maybe the part I was seeing that was demolished was where the portico fell down a while back.

I heard that the construction has been stopped because of difficulty locating the unmarked gravees. Not sure how much truth there is to that.

I'm lovin' that door too...

The walls give me a feeling of emptiness.

I think that's the top of it at the bottom of the photo.

Yep these hallways are very wide...

This place has it's fair share of vandalisim, but it's not too bad (yet).

The Beatles' White Album.

An obscure reference for all the "old" people here. :-)

>:-(

If SOMEONE had gotten here when this gallery first opened and had been paying attention, they would have seen that it initially said "blaring." Up and into your room right now, young lady! >:-(

And no dinner. >:-(

And no TV, neither, you sassy whippersnapper! >:-(

Motts, how EVER are we going to keep our child in line if you don't step in and smack her around every now and then? :-(