4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

Thank you, reddll. Nicely said and I totally agree! : )

I have noticed a few brief off colored comments about Lynne popping up. The whole idea here is to share what you know and what you think. If you have something to say about the subject then do so. Slight, sarcastic remarks do not add to the discussion. Lynne does an excellent job of researching questions that people have asked, presenting facts about items/issues, and adding to the atmosphere in general. I personally am grateful for her researching skills and knowledge. She has a lot of experience in many of the things discussed here. I have learned a lot on this website. I have had mentally ill relatives in the past that dealt with many of the issues presented here and am grateful that there are so many visitors here who have shed some light on what used to be kept so silent.

Did you even look at the wonderful pictures that are presented here? It doesn't seem that you have even given them a second thought.

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -Douglas Adams

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They have them where I work, in the old section of campus.

Just ask lynne,she knows everything.

Everything looks so thriving and green and alive. Maybe it really is, or maybe it just looks that way when in comparison to such a dead and derelict building.

It makes me think of a fire house, or maybe even "Jack and the Bean Stalk".

I love this door. It seems -- well, actually it is -- so out of place, and totally random. It makes you wonder why that heart is there in the first place, who put it there, etc. But it's really pretty, in a creepy sort of way.

That wallpaper is fantastic, in a tacky, retro sort of way. It reminds me of Turkish tiling, or maybe something Swedish, because of the blue and yellow coloring. And I love the pink walls, too, although the color seems like it would be a bit harsh, especially under fluorescent lighting.

These little diamond-shaped windows give me the creeps, moreso than any of the observation windows in other hospitals featured on the site.

Was Northampton the only hospital to use this style of observation windows, or did other hospitals have them too? They don't seem like they'd be very useful; you probably couldn't see much through them, and I would think you wouldn't be able to see every part of the room either.

The way the rust stains are running down the door from the observation window makes me think of crying. Or like the room is purging itself of all the negative energy and feelings that once inhabited it, and maybe still do inhabit it.

That little window, to me, just seems to personify loneliness and lost hope.

This is a particularly forboding shot. Especially the way in which the bars on the windows show up so well, despite the shadows that loom over the building.

This almost looks more like a painting or a drawing done with pastels than it does a photograph. It's beautiful in its menacing desolation.

Oh yes. I am sure they died such awful, horrible deaths. Quick, everyone, let's cry over how tormented they were.

Meant to be said drily, of course. ;)