Hospital On The Hill

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Great Shot! Love the creepy movie feel I get from this one.

Fugue

Wed 11-09-2005

Hi Fugue! Lemme guess long time visitor, new commenter?

Ron

Wed 11-09-2005

It looks positively *looming,* like it's just about to jump some poor unwitting soul.

Rat

Wed 11-09-2005

Looks like something out of a 50's horror flick.....Nice shot!!! Where's Dracula....?

Tony C.

Wed 11-09-2005

I remember an extreamly bad TV movie I watched with my sister when i was ten. It was called "Satan's School for Girls" This almost could have been the building.

Richard

Wed 11-09-2005

Grate shot, it Defiantly has that creepy movie feel.

Truckie

Wed 11-09-2005

*agree,s with all the above*

Kewl!

Kind of reminds me of the castle from Rocky Horror Picture Show.

So yeah, a horror movie, of sorts...

Thad

Thu 11-10-2005

Makes me think Dracula is in the inside ready to welcome all of us...

awyper

Thu 11-10-2005

Great shot! The building looks so cold and forbidding.....

Jude

Fri 11-11-2005

Hey, has anyone noticed that Fugue randomly dissapeared after a couple of comments?

Ron

Fri 11-11-2005

Does anybody know how to get in touch with the photographer? I'm writing a book on abandoned asylums and would love his input. Or anyone else's for that matter! email me plumperfect415@aol.com

Kate

Sun 11-20-2005

motts at opacity.us

he's the photographer/
explorer/
brainchild behind all of this

thats creepy

this is a very creepy lookin picture.. like one from a movie!! its very interesting..

Ashley

Wed 12-14-2005

Awesome pic the building is so beautiful.

Andy

Sun 01-22-2006

It's amazing how it just gazes at the living.

Johnny Mac

Fri 02-17-2006

This looks like a great building

Dana

Mon 02-20-2006

Wow! I am visiting these pages again and now with a more focus on the pix, as I was browsing before. This is some major and awesome sites! I love browsing abandoned mental facilities!

Sassie Ann

Thu 02-23-2006

I am so glad that the mental asylum my sis was in was more modern, however, it did have reputation of being bad. This pix looks so dreary and makes me think of all those souls that were locked up behind those walls.

Andra

Fri 02-24-2006

awesome photo! keep it up

Amanda J

Thu 03-02-2006

This picture just brings back memories recently i went at night mind you to walk the basement and many rooms of this hospital-- the morgue and also the labotomy lab it was so cold and erie IT WAS a great and horrifying experience that i probably won't do again well maybe one more time!!!

Kathryn R

Sat 03-04-2006

stunning! i must say that all of these buildings are nut house amazing. seriously.. great shot.

Melanie

Fri 05-26-2006

I just discovered this web site and have to say that I am thrilled with your hard work at taking such intrigueing photos. I have always had an interest in mental hospitals and the stories that go along with them. Does anyone know of any "groups" that go to visit these hospitals? I would like to be a part of that. I would be very interested in going through some of them myself just to look. I live in Ledyard, CT less than 10 miles from the old Norwich State Psychiatric Hospital and have always wanted to walk through to see what it looks like inside.

Paige

Thu 06-01-2006

If anyone has any information on how I can get involved with this type of extra ciricular activiy, please feel free to e-mail me at paige.bowman@gmail.com
Thank you for any help you may be able to offer.

Paige

Thu 06-01-2006

Some friends of mine and I took our own little tour through the building during the day time. We had gone back there at night and this picture is a great Imagery as if you were actually there.

Smoken da trees

Wed 08-30-2006

im working my way through these sites , so i hope Mr. Motts can answer this, is this picture of the old building built in 1856?

CSA fr USA

Thu 10-26-2006

Yes, I believe these are the first two wards closes to administration, which would be the original 1856 structure.

Motts

Thu 10-26-2006

Great work!
As a former employee, I am saddened that this great piece of architecture is falling into demise. You have some great photos and artwork. I love the angel in the corridors. Myself I find it bittersweet, as there was much sadness and suffering behind those walls and in those very corridors.

Mark Perras
Long Beach, California
Formerly from Easthampton. Massachusetts

mark.a.perras@boeing.com

Former employee

Mon 02-05-2007

I love old buildings like this and it saddens me this is no longer standing.

freespirit76

Sun 07-31-2011

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Date Shot:	June 2005	Image ID#:	3452
Date Posted:	Wed, November 9th 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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