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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.
The Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum is an historic structure at 2335 Wayne Ave. in Dayton, Ohio. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1979. The 300-acre (120 ha) complex was designed as a mental asylum in accordance with principles advocated by Philadelphia psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride in the mid-19th ...
Columbus State Hospital, also known as Ohio State Hospital for Insane, was a public psychiatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1838 and rebuilt in 1877. [1] The hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan. [2] The building was said to have been the largest in the U.S. or the world, until the Pentagon was completed in 1943. [3] [4]
Corrections staff across Ohio and the nation are struggling to handle complex medical conditions, addictions and serious mental illnesses. Between 2020 and 2023 in Ohio, at least 220 people died ...
Springfield, Ohio — At the St. Vincent de Paul Society community center in Springfield, Ohio, Haitian immigrants receive food and clothes and get help finding work. "They're here and they're our ...
Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum; W. Wood County Museum This page was last edited on 28 April 2024, at 08:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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 . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
New Jersey — Brighton Asylum in Passaic, NJ. You may have heard of Brighton Asylum from TV shows like the Today Show and Cake Boss. This Passaic haunted attraction is a giant walk-through dark ...