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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.
Dixmont State Hospital: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Demolished 2005 80003401 [57] 1863 Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: Weston, West Virginia: Inactive Formerly known as Weston State Hospital 78002805 [58] 1865 Mount Pleasant State Hospital: Mount Pleasant, Iowa: Destroyed 1936 Original Kirkbride building destroyed in fire — [59] [60] 1866 St ...
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 ...
A Florida woman who allegedly snatched a three-year-old boy from his fenced-in yard and ran off down the street last week told the cops she shouldn’t be arrested because she “gave it back ...
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.