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Finally, with the building of the St. Lawrence State Hospital and the Collins Farm State Homeopathic Hospital the buildings were further apart and only several connected by covered walks.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Athens Lunatic Asylum, Broughton Hospital, Bryce Hospital, Cherokee Mental Health Institute, Clarinda Treatment Complex, Clinton Valley Center, Danvers State Hospital, Danville State Hospital, Dixmont State Hospital, Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center, Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, H. H. Richardson Complex, Harrisburg State Hospital, Hudson River State Hospital, Independence State Hospital, Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Jacksonville Developmental Center, Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital, Kirkbride Plan, Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute, Northampton State Hospital, Oregon State Hospital, Spring Grove Hospital Center, St. Elizabeths Hospital, Taunton State Hospital, The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Traverse City State Hospital, Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, Winnebago Mental Health Institute, Worcester State Hospital. Excerpt: The Athens Lunatic Asylum was a mental hospital operated in Athens, Ohio from 1874 until 1993. During its operation, the hospital provided services to a variety of patients including Civil War veterans, children, and violent criminals suffering from various mental disabilities. It is best known as a site of the infamous lobotomy procedure, as well as various supposed paranormal sightings. After the hospital's original structure closed, the state of Ohio acquired the property and renamed the complex and its surrounding grounds "The Ridges." According to The Guide of Repository Holdings, the term "The Ridges" was derived from a naming contest in 1984 to re-describe the area and its purpose. It began operation on January 9, 1874. Within two years of its opening, the hospital was renamed The Athens Hospital for the Insane. Later, the hospital would be called the Athens Asylum for the Insane, the Athens State Hospital, the...

Powerful photographs of the grand exteriors and crumbling interiors of America's abandoned state mental hospitals. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twentieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these beautiful, massive buildings—and the patients who lived in them—neglected and abandoned. Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crumbling interiors—chairs stacked against walls with peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of suitcases, never packed for the trip home. Accompanying Payne's striking and powerful photographs is an essay by Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne's photographs and to the lives once lived in these places, “where one could be both mad and safe.”

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