4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

BESTIAL BEHERIT, hey it is just a picture, and I know that you are intitled to yuor opniion, BUT>>>>> you need to tone it down, show some respect. Mr. Motts is doing something different in expressing his photography , changing the mood of a bare hallway and adding some beauty and mystery to it. TAKE FLIPPIN CHILL PILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and relax.

I very much dislike ''emo'', sorry but this is not gonna get an ''ok'' from me!

This sorta has ''mtv2'' fake m*tal written all over it.

This whole ''I am depressed, because hot topic told me so'' is such a joke!

Only in 2006 AMERIKWA could depression be a ''hip'' thing, screw these people for mocking depression, depression is not something that you can fake!

REAL METAL WILL ALWAYS BURRY 'this 'emo'' crap !!!

In memory of Bethlehem's-Dark Metal!!!!! in memory of the past...

''FROM THR PAST COMES THE STORMS''

what the??? BLUE, are you color blind?????????

This is my favorite gallery of your work. Brilliant!

Motts, you are a genius.

''WELCOME TO THE SLAUGHTER''

Deadman, I'm electing you for the twit of the year.

Lynne, your the best. You know, maybe we should have a reunion of the friends who know and care.

Absolutely steam heat symmetry.

P.B., I was working nights at the time so I had all the living and dead around. A number perhaps makes it a little more exciting but it doesn't change the meaning. All it did was to help absorb what I was feeling without exhaling it from my soul. I brought it home with me.

Because I love this photo so much I decided to give all my folks on this site the news that the first apartment has been rented. It's called Hilltop and what used to be the old female employees home. The article went on to say that old main will be demolished this coming spring. I just want to say a thankyou to Motts for capturing a space in time that can never be repeated and will be never more. Your photos were the only history that can be reported of all that went on in that sacred place. Without you it would have never been recorded and we all thankyou for giving all of us a passage to past . We all know that the history has and will continue to be demolshed under the wrecking ball and a new genereration of non descipt edifaces will be constructed for the pleasure of the bottom line, bucks. Thankyou for having the balls to go in these places and giving all our friends a sendoff that they all deserved. Your pics are an invaluable history of what was. Years from now these photos will be displayed and give the folks of tomorrow land an idea what it was all about. Put your photos in a big safe, get them patented because they are going to be around for many, many years to come. Onward and upward, photo man.

Absolutely beautiful.

This set has brought me out of lurking to comment. Verry beautiful work!

Johnny Mac: I know that this is no where close to what you have probably seen at this state hospital, but I used to work at a nursing home before I became a nurse, and I had such a deep connection to all of the residents that I cared for and spent time with. I was devistated at the lose that I endured and the neglect that I saw, it is heart breaking and rewarding all at the sametime, and I love that there is some one else out there that I can relate to and understand. Your comment almost brought tears to my eyes, and a smile to my heart it is wonderful to see that you cared so much for these people who needed you the most. have a great day Renee

The terms used to be interchangeable. "Asylum" means a haven or a sanctuary and "sanitarium" or "sanitorium" is a place where a person is to be restored to health, either mentally or physically. These days most people think of asylum more negatively, as in "lunatic asylum" or "mental asylum," and they are put in mind of physical diseases with the term sanitarium, since there were so many TB sanitariums.