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Dixmont State Hospital (originally the Department of the Insane in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh [3]) was a hospital located northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1862, Dixmont was once a state-of-the-art institution known for its highly self-sufficient and park-like campus, but a decline in funding for state ...
Hollidaysburg State Hospital: Hollidaysburg: 1938: 369: 1947: n/a: closed 1979: Cottage: originally opened in 1904 as Blair County Hospital for Mental Diseases Lawrence Frick State Hospital: Cresson: 1916: closed 1984, repurposed: Cottage: now a correctional facility Marcy State Hospital: Pittsburgh: 1915: closed 1982: Cottage Mayview State ...
In November 2008, all 47 remaining forensic patients were moved to Torrance State Hospital in Torrance Pennsylvania. [12] From August 2007 to December 2008, over 200 former patients were moved into community-based settings, most of which having 24-hour on-site support staff. Mayview officially closed at the end of December 2008. [12]
Founded on March 18, 1848, [4] West Penn Hospital was Pittsburgh's first chartered public hospital. It was originally located in Pittsburgh's 12th ward, on a hillside overlooking the city's Strip District and adjacent to what is now Polish Hill. Today, that plot is home to a ball field and West Penn Park, after having been sold to the City of ...
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within ...
Before the volunteers started the project, the cemetery has become became overgrown and was mostly forgotten, apart from a misspelled sign that read “Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891 ...
Images of rundown buildings with boarded-up windows, creaking doors and dark, dingy hallways -- the types of places that ghosts Village at Grand Traverse: Empty Michigan Asylum Now Glam Digs ...
Metropolitan Police officers investigating a public order offence has launched an appeal to find two women who were seen wearing images of paragliders at a pro-Palestine march in London on Saturday.