New Year's of 2008 saw my final set of Northampton State Hospital's Kirkbride. Old Main had already been taken down in spite of best efforts to prevent the destruction of a historic landmark. Abatement had begun on the rest of the Kirkbride, leaving the wards with open, gaping, windowless eyes out onto a foggy landscape that we knew would soon be barren. It was difficult to see her like that, ready for the wrecking ball, already with her center missing as if her soul had been removed. A few weeks later I stood outside the chainlink fence and watched her ripped apart by the jaws of giant machines and Northampton State Hospital finally fell.
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