4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

Sadly, I think the wings take away from the images... ah well, tis only my opinion...

...and suddenly I understand. These are long exposures at night. Boy, aren't I stupid...

I'm trying to see where all these people are you guys keep claiming to see... and I keep being disappointed. Stop over-fantasizing, will you?

It's very interesting how in one section the floor has caved in, and in another there are still curtains hanging...

Aw, look... the spiders are trying to fix it.

Shame you missed out on all of the left behind stuff... ah well, that's life.

Well, that might explain the caution tape, eh?

Well, I think that would make me want to leave, rust or not... eww. Ha ha.

my english teachers face was priceless when he saw this
absolute horror

Mott,

Once again, words fail me... the depth of feeling in this picture is beyond words..the despair and pain that these particular walls must have seen during those 100 and some years boggles the mind and saddens the soul
( By pain I'm not referring to staff abuse or anything the like of that, merely referring to the deep psychatric and emotional pain and suffering that these and all patients here more than likely experienced. Believe me, even though I have never been hospitalized and have what is considered a "mild case" of bipolar-relative term- I know full well the pain and despair that can run through the unwell mind, and the prisons that are of its own making)

Lynn,
I for one would LOVE to have you as my psych teacher/professor! ;)

I my self have attempte to enter this place, and its on lock down. If anyone knows how to get me in let me know.

how did you get that little girl staring directly into the camera?

We need a soundtrack to sanity for these collections.

I think this location and Northwood Asylum sum up the lonely, hopeless feeling that asylums bring on. In the end of their days, don't these asylums finally look like the feelings they bring to those locked in them in the beginning of their years?

I promise y'all, when I came home and helped clean up.... the water in that tub is pure in comparison. That is nothin'.

But I do wish Motts would come take photos here before what is left of some of the gorgeous buildings here are destroyed. Some historic places and faces are disappearing, even if they don't have much hurricane damage. Everything new and impersonal seems to be the NOLA motto now.

I loved this city once. Since the storm, I hate it. The people changed, the citizens are thrown aside and investors for the new New Orleans are all that matter. I'm applying to the school, gonna go, and as soon as I am done, I am leaving Louisiana for good. There is nothing left here worth saving.

All their money for your soul.

Basically the equipment is the same used today, instead of plastic receptacles, it used to be glass bottles. The plastic of rubber tubes are almost the same as today.
In some parts of the world is still being used this kind of devices with relative success. What looks curious to me is why this device is in a damp like this.