4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

Something about this photograph. It really draws me to it. Brilliant.

ha ha Ferdy, are you referring to the popular Wisconsin Dells attraction?

Mr. Motts, I'm curious...I know you never take anything from these places, but are you ever tempted to take a souvenier when you know it will be your last visit? And by the way, thank you for another wonderful gallery.

thank you motts for another journey. you have truely saved this building through your photography. it will forever be in our hearts and minds...

Ahhhh, Rekrats, you were thinking the same thing I was! I was hoping she could answer my question (above) and provide us with some of her unique wit at the same time! :-)

Thanx for the great journey through this site Motts.As others have said it is going to be a great shame to see it go but then again we still have it here in these Galleries.Thanx Again Motts for keeping us in the picture.

Unless Rekrats,squatters have been there.That maybe a possibility aye.

Yeah job well done,Motts

Are there two doors,looks that way.

I could almost cry, knowing there will be no more imagery from this brilliant work of architectural art. Thank you, so very much, Motts, for this incredible gallery by which to remember this staid, gorgeous Kirkbride.

amazing

AAACH! I had no idea Motts had a deviantArt. Cooooool.

Possible, denise. Considering the age and decomposition of other parts of the building, compared to the relatively recent-looking mattress and sheet. Other wings have beds that are little more than rusty, crumbling frames. Little chance that a mattress and sheet would have held up at all in such conditions.

Wouldn't it be totally bizarre if someone recognized themselves in that old, once-loved photograph?? It's possible that child is still around, as an older adult, somewhere.... with a distant memory of a cold winter day and a snapshot that was taken, given to a relative housed in "one of those places," a family shadow very rarely spoken of.

Holy crap! That was a fire hazard from hell! How miserable that must have been, for staff and patients alike.