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Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Constructed 1858–1881. Opened to patients 1864. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital. The asylum was open to patients from October 1864 until May 1994.
Kirkbride Plan. The Kirkbride Plan was a system of mental asylum design advocated by American psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883) in the mid-19th century. The asylums built in the Kirkbride design, often referred to as Kirkbride Buildings (or simply Kirkbrides), were constructed during the mid-to-late-19th century in the United ...
TAPS return to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, for their 200th episode, which finds the team reunited with Grant, Dustin and Joe.(the latter both from GHI) Included: Efforts are made to reach former patients who suffered tragic lives in the hospital.
In the Halloween special titled Ghost Adventures Live, which was broadcast from the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum on October 30, 2009, controversy arose when Robert Bess, inventor of the Parabot Containment Chamber (said to attract and empower spirits using energy, giving them form), claims to have had an EMF meter knocked violently out of his ...
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. While the title of this compound isn’t exactly respectful or socially acceptable these days, the name lives on as a place that’s filled ...
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia, USA October 16, 2009 ( 2009-10-16 ) The one-hour series premiere tells the tales of Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum , which is reportedly haunted by a little girl named Lilly who is still looking for her mommy after her death.
Architecturally magnificent, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (formerly known at one point as the Weston State Hospital) is supposedly haunted by its former patients. It was built in the mid ...
Added to NRHP. March 11, 1980. The Athens Lunatic Asylum, now a mixed-use development known as The Ridges[2], was a Kirkbride Plan 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 those declared mentally unwell.