{"id":940,"date":"2006-06-30T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/?p=940"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:00:53","slug":"northampton-state-hospital-memorial-complex-june-29-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/architecture-and-abandoned\/northampton-state-hospital-memorial-complex-june-29-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton State Hospital Memorial Complex &#8211; June 29, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Memorial Complex at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/architecture-and-abandoned\/hospitals\/asylums\/northampton-state-hospital\/\">Northampton State Hospital<\/a> managed to outlast the demolition of the Kirkbride&#8230;for a while at least. In 2008, I returned to the hospital to take more photos of the complex.  This is a short gallery, but you can find other photos of the Memorial Complex in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/architecture-and-abandoned\/northampton-state-hospital-june-17-2006\/\">June 17, 2006 trip<\/a> and shots on film in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/architecture-and-abandoned\/hospitals\/asylums\/northampton-state-hospital\/northampton-state-hospital-male-attendants-home-august-14-2008\/\">August 14, 2008 trip<\/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 *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-0 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/844\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9096-hdr.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Bathroom sinks in the male attendants residence at Northampton State Hospital\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/845\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9105.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Bathroom water fountain in the male attendants residence at Northampton State Hospital\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/846\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9111-hdr.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Bathroom sinks in the male attendants residence at Northampton State Hospital\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/847\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img_9128.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Door in the Memorial Complex of Northampton State Hospital\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memorial Complex at Northampton State Hospital managed to outlast the demolition of the Kirkbride&#8230;for a while at least. In 2008, I returned to the hospital to take more photos of the complex. This is a short gallery, but you can find other photos of the Memorial Complex in my June 17, 2006 trip and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,11,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","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\/940","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=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desolatemetropolis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}