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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 ...
Thomas Story Kirkbride (July 31, 1809 – December 16, 1883) was a physician, alienist, hospital superintendent for the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and primary founder of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), the organizational precursor to the American Psychiatric Association ...
The Lunatic Asylum of Ohio was initially organized by an act of the General Assembly passed on March 5, 1835. [5] The original hospital building, after three years of construction, was completed in 1838 at a cost of about $61,000. [1] [5] Dr. William M. Awl was elected as the first Medical Superintendent of the asylum. [5]
Weston was founded in 1818 as Preston; the name was changed to Fleshersville soon after, and then to Weston in 1819. [6] The city was incorporated in 1846. [7]Weston is the site of the former Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a psychiatric hospital and National Historic Landmark which has been mostly vacant since its closure in 1994 upon its replacement by the nearby William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital.
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Weston, West Virginia Architecturally magnificent, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (formerly known at one point as the Weston State Hospital) is supposedly ...
Athens Lunatic Asylum. 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.
November 28, 1980. Designated PHLF. 1970 [2] 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 ...