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you know, i never saw your site until now. i have my pics here with me when i came across this one... i have the excat same picture at a slightly different angle :o)

Sethra

Tue 10-11-2005

How would one make arrangements to visit the NSH?

Chris in San Diego

Wed 11-09-2005

The hospital is off limits to the public; it is currently being developed by MassDevelopment and Beals and Thomas.

Motts

Wed 11-09-2005

Heh. Maybe. Maybe not. ( us E.L. kids <3 video footage of this place. Friends were in there like two days ago.)

Sean

Wed 11-16-2005

I can't get over how blown away I am that so many things were left behind in all of these locations. I explored an abandoned dog track recently but it was no where near as cool as these places.

Season

Sun 12-11-2005

It was cheeper for the state to leave it all behind. They knew no one would be able to get it out.

Tue 01-03-2006

Its ashame that things like these are left to waste away. This could be one of the few that are left. You never know it could be worth something.

Andy

Sun 01-22-2006

Technically NSH is off limits, but you can get in easily. Never heard of anyone getting in trouble for going there. I doubt that if the cops saw a car there at 2 A.m. if they would go in looking for someone.

Joe

Fri 02-10-2006

that machine is great I wonder how old it is? anyone??

rtotten

Wed 02-15-2006

i began x-ray school in late 1977. we had old equipment but none that was quite this old. the extending metal arm w/the cables to the left that end w/a metal disc mounted on what looks like a cone-shape- that device on the end is the x-ray tube itself. the vertical square beam coming from behind &over the top of the box is how you move the tube up & down. it probably also rotates. the knobs you see are how you set the machine. i think this is an old portable machine, probably from the 60s.
those things were hell to push!!

heidianne

Sat 03-25-2006

There are places all over the United States that are totally abandoned. The way they are furnished, it looks like some of the people just got in their car, took off, and never came back. I have a lot of books on abadoned dwellings.

Nancy

Wed 06-21-2006

I am new to this site....ok I cant stop looking at it I found it monday and havent done a lick of work sense! I ve just been looking, learning and enjoying all the great photos. Mr, Motts you are very very good with the lens.
Lynne-You have my full respect for what you do and the others on here that do as you do.

Now for this picture...did anyone notice the white/aluminum colored line across the top right of the machine???? It becomes transparent as it crosses the square vertical tube...but it does not disapear!
Why I noticed that I dont know...

DaveWilly

Wed 09-20-2006

Bwah ha ha ha ha ha! Motts snared another one!
Welcome Dave Willy...we have a forum too!
I see what your talking about...the white line thingy! Never ever noticed that before, and I have perused this gallery many a time!

Sian

Wed 09-20-2006

Nancy I would love to read and some of these books ,please give me the name of a few or where I can buy them. I would be so thankful.

CSA fr USA

Mon 10-30-2006

I think this place is a really cool place for peple to go to go if you are really interested in the history of the old Northampton asylum its really a creepy place

jessica Lynch

Mon 11-20-2006

A question for anyone familiar with x-ray machines: would there be any radioactive substances or parts in these old machines? If so, it would seem mighty irresponsible to abandon them like this . . .

Kurious Kat

Sun 01-21-2007

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...

Ms Fluffy Telegias-Parker

Wed 07-02-2008

I hope i misunderstood the last comment. Auschwitz was built as a mechanism for genocide. However great the shortcomings of state psychiatric hospitals, they were established for the purpose of restoring people to health.

dme

Tue 10-14-2008

Awww... it still looks happy!

Das Kilen Bitte

Sat 12-20-2008

« Le vrai de l’équilibre, c’est qu’il siffut d’un souffle pour faire tout bouger. »C’est Kadhafi qui a été soufflé !

Miguel

Sun 02-12-2012

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Date Shot:	May 2005	Image ID#:	3129
Date Posted:	Mon, September 12th 2005	Camera:	Canon 300D Rebel

Location Name:	Northampton State Hospital
Current Status:	Demolished
Built:	1856	Closed:	1993
Opened:	1858	Demolished / Renovated:	2006
Location Age:	156 years	Abandonment:	13 years

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