{"id":886,"date":"2006-01-14T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/?p=886"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:04:41","slug":"northampton-state-hospital-january-14-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/architecture-and-abandoned\/northampton-state-hospital-january-14-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton State Hospital &#8211; January 14, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We arrived at NoHo to find the campus shrouded in fog.  We worked our way through the North Infirmary before entering the main part of the Kirkbride for the first time.  I remember very clearly opening the door and the building &#8220;breathing&#8221; out on us.  This happened most of the times I visited, and made the place seem alive.  As the first place I ever explored, the whole process was very excited and we were very nervous about being caught, running in to other people, falling through a floor, etc.  Every noise, and the building made an awful lot of noises for an abandoned structure, brought us to full attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More photos from the North Infirmary are featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/architecture-and-abandoned\/hospitals\/asylums\/northampton-state-hospital\/northampton-state-hospital-december-2005\/\">my first trip to the hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php 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We worked our way through the North Infirmary before entering the main part of the Kirkbride for the first time. I remember very clearly opening the door and the building &#8220;breathing&#8221; out on us. This happened most of the times I visited, and made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,11,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-and-abandoned","category-asylums","category-hospitals","category-northampton-state-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}