4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

Okay, now, who is going to pull the stopper?

It IS the chair that many sat upon waiting....for that door to be just as it is. They are now dust on the floor.

How do you get in and is it still worthwhile?

The kirkbride is completely demolished.

I have not been to the site since 2004. Is it completely gone now? Can anyone post an update on the status of the campus?

awesome pics

When I toured Bergen-Belsen and Aushewitz,Poland, in 1983,this is the sigular dejavu experience that can be related to it-to a passer-by,it's just another brick in the wall,from a human perspective, a testament to human insensitivty and wanton lack of a soul....actually-Aushwitz was more like a six flags fun park when you consider how morbid N.S.H actually was...

The hygenic necrosis of N.S.H is reminiscent of a aged neighbors recollections of Bergen-Belsen and Aushewitz-if you ever tour Poland,the dejavu will be oddly cold and melencholey-God Bless Those Poor Souls,Amen

wow

ok i have just recently been in the old mental hospital (yesturday!) and while it was exciting and pretty cool theres really not much left to it there allmost done with demolition and me and my friend getting in was purely luck. we found a door that someone had broken the lock too and we took the chance and explored. on the ground level we just found walls with arrows marked "tunnels" which we never got the chance to see cause they were sealed off and on the second level we saw all old empty rooms a few closets that had old shelves and drawers with what looked like a pencil minus the lead. we saw an old elevator that was probaly used for patient transportation or other things and we saw some old bathrooms. as cool as it was we didnt stay to long for fear of too much asbestos exposure which is one reason the building it closed off. we got some pretty good pictures of some rooms and some interesting things we found along the way and of the outside what it looks like now that half of it is missing. im hoping to get them online and possibly make a site like this showing what it looks like now.

one word: AMAZING!

kind of like how silly it is to want to be known as a hobo?

Nah, its a little more corny than that.

Wow, all of these pictures are so cool! It would be so fun to be a model in a project like this!

in this photo it has the information of where you go 25% of the time in the hospital. its amazing picture it captures what death is when you are alomst done. It has power with ita own words. it says it all, "we are more afraid of life than death".

Thanks, no I just adjust the brightness and contrast from the RAW file, then again in the program; the amazing colors are pretty true to life, which is part of what made NSH such a beautiful place.