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Austin State Hospital (ASH), formerly known until 1925 as the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, is a 299-bed psychiatric hospital located in Austin, Texas. It is the oldest psychiatric facility in the state of Texas, and the oldest continuously operating west of the Mississippi River. [2] It is operated by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
Terrell State Hospital. Terrell State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital located in Terrell, Texas, United States. Opened in 1885, it was originally known as the North Texas Lunatic Asylum. [1] The original hospital building was built according to the Kirkbride Plan. [2]
Designated MSHS. September 17, 1974 [2] The Clinton Valley Center (CVC), originally called the Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, was a psychiatric hospital located at 140 Elizabeth Lake Road in Pontiac, Michigan. The facility was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...
The Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital officially opened on 29 August 1859 under the direction of Dr. Edwin Van Deusen, although three women patients had been admitted prior to that time. The first male patient was admitted in 1860. It was originally known as the 'Michigan Asylum for the Insane' and was renamed the 'Kalamazoo State ...
West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, the scene of three deadly prison riots in 1973, 1979, and 1986, [145] is said to be haunted. [146] Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston is a previously abandoned psychiatric hospital that is purported to be haunted due to the many deaths of patients which occurred there. [147]
For a century, it was known as the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, the state's largest mental institution. According to The New York Times, it once housed as many as 3,000 patients. But ...
But one of the spookiest locations in Alaska is a historic site—The Alaskan Hotel and Bar in Juneau, one of the most haunted hotels in the state. Established in 1913, it's the oldest operating ...
Lunatic asylum. Social alienation was one of the main themes in Francisco Goya 's masterpieces, such as The Madhouse (above). The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital.