4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

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The light at the end, i like. There are no lamps. Wonder how it was lit.
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LOVE this gallery. Thank you, and may you always be well is my wish.
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Ahhh hahaha too lazy, FTW!
Hearts on doors, cut-out, or a picture means a toilet in Sweden. Fun Every Day!
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All those lamps - may be someone DID save them, am hoping. Like them so much!
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Really like those lamps, i do! Wish had them all over my old house. Tripod fine, low. Fun Every Day. Be well and stay in.............
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How beautiful it all is; the details. Someone planned it all, and workmen were proud. So many working hours to make all so pretty. Like the lamps a lot too. Agree: what a waste!
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John Mac: I remember seeing you sleeping there, but you were too cool and I didn't tell the charge nurse.
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I loved going down there for some quiet time back in '72.
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Thanx Lucie!
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This is my wallpaper. FOREVER!
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I'm not sure which area of the complex this shaft is in, but I'd guess at it being part of Old Main (1856) or an early 1900 addition, before elevators were used / common. Looks like they tore out a series of small rooms to create the shaft, and simply left the windows intact.
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During these last months before demolition, access was quite easy... all the doors were open and many holes in the fence. Before that, you had to get in the fence and work along the building to find some hidden opening that the maintenance crew missed.
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great pictures- how did you go in?
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I wish they made more of an effort to preserve such beautiful examples of brickwork. I'm not sure how it works in the US or the UK, but here in Australia it's likely they would have these buildings Heritage Listed, meaning they cannot be demolished. What a terrible loss.
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These are quite scary looking contraptions aren't they?