4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

i no thats not fake because me and a couple of friends were in there a while ago

Sorry, those were my fault... Everytime I see a sitz bath I scream like a little girl. :D

I'm from the area. My sister and brother-in-law just moved into a house right down the road from the Noho hospital site. I've never been in there, but I know people who have. The outer facades are sad and creepy enough for me!
It'll all be razed quite soon. The property values in Northampton are waaaay too high at this point.
I'm surprised Danvers is still standing. Property values out there are even higher. But...it takes time to raze these kinds of buildings nowadays. You know, Asbestos, environmental regs, and whatnot.

Nice Dilly Dally, Very nice.

Interesting. I feel like I have already read this before somewhere . . . .

Mine too! Bravo - excellent perspective and one I share. :-)

and additional i have to say i have very very strong deja vu feelings when i look at exactly these pic. even the doors and windows are deja vu. :O

some years ago i had a disturbing dream of right this place. in my dream it was a school, the building around were school buildings, the yard was the school yard and in my dream i and the other kids spent the school-break there, and the small building in the middle was the GYM!!!

Mark, i've heard the same screams you're talking about in the caf, but also in the theater. I've heard that lynx inhabit this area of Western Mass, and they can sound frighteningly similar to a woman's scream. I'm still looking into it, though.

the theater is straight back through adminstration. admin being what links the north and south wings.

Dilly Dally can write my Eulogy!

Didn't want to be in this area when "Bula the Buzzer" sounded! Deafening!!!!!!!

Goodbye Old Friend.

The manicure of the grounds,the shine and cleanliness of the halls are now gone, and everyone judges a building that has stood vacant for 25+ years, against the harshness and ravishes of nature, as a creepy, haunted snake pit. I liken the pictures of this building to the pictorial history of Titanic, those in her glory and magnificence and presently of her in her watery grave.

The building was once a magnificent structure but its Time has come to an end. It is time to remove this once magnificent structure from the landscape.

But God bless all the Care Givers who passed through the halls of this building and who worked and sacrificed, under impossible conditions, to provide a clean safe haven for mentally ill patients and other unfortunates who found themselves locked away in this overcrowded Institution. But don't judge their procedures and treatments too harshly for someday, someone may refer to our "modern" procedures as "Barbaric"!

The Hospital, Buildings, Staff and Patients were an experiment in the treament of Mental Illness that in some ways succeeded admirably and in others failed so miserably!

I have walked through these halls,buildings and tunnels a thousand times, and have seen the beauty of the structures of the past as well as the diplorable conditions of the present. I have witnessed the suffering of an overcrowded patient population and the hopes, tears and anguish of an undermanned staff. But as I took my last walk through "Old Main", my eyes saw the building as it once was and I saw and heard the Staff and Patients from a bygone era, all in their places, frozen in time.

NI1, 2, 3 and connecting hall. Hot air relief valves

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