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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 ...
Mayview State Hospital was a psychiatric hospital, originally known as Marshalsea Poor Farm, located in South Fayette Township near Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. It spanned 335 acres (136 ha) and had 39 buildings, 12 of which were used for patient care and hospital administration.
The president-elect can't tell political asylum from an insane asylum. But a little linguistic history reveals a more compelling American tradition. Asylum Isn't As Crazy as Trump Claims
State Correctional Institution - Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Closed in 2017. Closed in 2017. State Correctional Institution - Retreat , Hunlock Creek, Pennsylvania , converted from a psychiatric hospital.
Two versions of the legend exist, one involving a burnt insane asylum and the other an eccentric doctor. Both agree that there are seven gates in a wooded area of Hellam Township, Pennsylvania, and that anyone who passes through all seven goes straight to Hell. The location in question never housed an institution; the aforementioned doctor only ...
In the late 1830s, the managers of Pennsylvania Hospital began erecting a large asylum to replace the hospital's crowded insane wards at 8th and Spruce Streets. The 101-acre (41 ha) site chosen was a former farm in the as-yet unincorporated district of West Philadelphia .
MORE: Insane asylum cemetery project progressing. The effort drew a lot of help from people in the community, including Lawrence University Professor Peter Peregrine, who took his anthropology ...