4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

I'm noticing the scratches that seem to cover the walls.

Someone save all the beauty in this place! Such a shame it's going to waste and ruin.

As for the color choice,I have read that when they first started experimenting with colors to effect mood, they began with colors people generally liked without learning the effects until later and often used colors that actually did the opposite they were intended to do. For instance, light blue was expected to make patients happier when they later found out that light blue actually made one feel sadder or depressed.

Great Photo series!!! Nice way to memorialize. Am from Easthampton originally.I used to work at " NSH" in the late 70's and early 80's. Never worked in this building , but wandered around a bit when picking up my paycheck. The grounds were very nice as well. I worked mostly in the Haskell Building and then across the street in the "g" building. Used to take the underground tunnels back and forth in the winter sometimes.

I visited this site in 1999 while still in high school. When I visited the morgue there were still chemicals on the table and some sort of computer on one of them. The Pyrex dishes and syringes were still lying around. Years later in in 2005 all of the artifacts were thrown into one corner of the room. The vandalism was severe the last time I returned. I believe this was because the Massachusetts State Police and the private security company no longer patrolled the grounds after about 2001.

Wow! This photo is incredible. Thanks for sharing your talent.

not positve but, I believe they would be used for hanging catch containers, before these tables were plumbeed with water, drains, and disposals.

interesting................................................................................

oh, four legged chair....you are the star of the night!

must...escape....

Decades ago, in the sixth grade of a public school in western Massachusetts, we had a teacher who used to say, "I'm going to have you sent to Northampton," when we misbehaved..

"What's Northampton?" someone would ask, and some wiseguy would answer by pointing at his ear with his index finger in a spiraling corkscrew gesture.

Years later I lived near Green Street, where I'd walk to the end, watch the women play softball on the fields below, and gaze across the valley at the hospital on top of the hill. It was a disconcerting scene. I had no idea the complex was so huge.

its sad this place was demolished

Gorgeous

L-o-v-e this pic she looks so hauntingly beautiful.

Has a symbolusim to it, doesn't it?