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Historic Asylums

Northampton State Hospital

aka Northampton Lunatic Hospital

Northampton, Massachusetts

Established 1858, still standing

Click here for the original plan

Click here for the original drawing.

Postcard views: (from the personal collection of Eric Erickson, Black River Falls, WI)

View of main (Kirkbride) building "We visited this institution its a wonderful place"

Closer view of main (Kirkbride) building

Another wide view of main building "These buildings can't beat.... Middletown"

Note: Most of this page (and the history page) and its photos were created by Asaph Murfin (and some text by Mark Cybulski),asaph@chem.umass.edu, and is "mirrored" here by permission.

Northampton State Hospital

Narrative

Partial Ariel View

Exterior Views

History of Northampton State Hospital

Please also see "Northampton State Hospital" at Smith college.