4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

nice, if the room could talk

I love this pic

I usually do not buy into "image posts" but, look at the picture again. I see a raven lower left, apig to the lower right , and angels in the background. Do you see them too? Great Gallery Motts, Thanks man.

this is a truly beautiful building left to delapidate into a faded memory what a crying shame in this age of recycling we let history( whether good or bad) fade to dust

i was here yesterday (halloween) like 9:00 pm .. thats so ^&* scary..

About one and one-half lifetimes ago, when I was going to college in southern Minnesota, I rented two rooms in the upstairs of an old mansion. One was a kitchen about 12 X 12 feet, a small walk-through closet and a very small bedroom. If you took the room above, and put the doorway on the opposite side and paneling on the walls, you'd have it. There was enough room for a twin bed, a dresser, and a floor lamp.
Fortunatly, there were two huge windows in the right-hand wall. And the sweetest litttle-old-lady landlady - who helped keep me fairly sane through 2 years of school. After 6 years in the Navy, it was tough for me to still, pay attention, and keep my mouth shut.

The missing bricks in the wall really make the picture. Suh-weet action.

Wow. That's a great shot.

this pics are lovely theres so much of a story there and i think the voilent war pic is wot it the title says as the corner are padded

After "Nut Hut" is what seems to be the word "This" written in blue ink pen. You can see it if you blow up the image. :)

....and as the massive rust laden door silently swung open towards me, my thoughts were not of fear but of intrigue. How can this solid steel door,it's hinges unmoving for decades,open with such fluidity? A delicate precision one might compare to the normally unnoticed movement in the hinges of a finely crafted silver locket. My falsley soothing thoughts suddenly give way to terror as I realize what a horribly fatal mistake it was to enter here. What was I thinking? What in Hell is causing putrid smell? So this is where I die.....how sad those that love me will be....Nobody deserves to go like this.

"Lean on me, when you're not strong..." Yeah, right.

Headrest or Headstrong?

Oooh! I want cherry!

Now stripped of any previous facades, I see no hint that this place, once intended to be an institution for medically guided mental rehabilitation, could have ever been capable of holding any type of warmth within it's walls, actual or perceived. The chill I feel has set in and the melt will be slow. Oh, so slow.