This building configuration was called The Kirkbride Plan and was hypothesized to promote mental wellness by being open and sunny while maintaining privacy. About 73 hospitals of this type were constructed in the US.
dogredsoxsays
House?
LiamG69says
Theres a soup kitchen nearby that I used to help with when I was really young, always wanted to explore this place when I was there but never really got the chance. I think I was always hoping they’d use it again because the building was so beautiful but by the time it was being demolished the place was overrun with ivy and weeds and it started to just look like a typical unfixable abandoned building. I was devastated when I heard that they knocked it down though, really disappointing thing to happen.
Anacoenosissays
Oh man, I used to sneak around that place as a kid. Wild that they finally tore it down.
Sad that it was demolished. They could have easily retrofitted into high-end townhomes. Keep the facade and interesting details, but compartmentalize into maybe 30 units.
EDIT: Actually, 30 seems way too low. It probably could have fit many, many more.
msjaksays
I’m an architectural photographer and I’ve got photos dating back 20 years. I grew up near there, the buildings were amazing and it was such a travesty that they demolished them. There was a whole grassroots movement to save them. The hospital at one time was fully self-sustained. They had pigs, cows and farmland. They even supplied excess to neighboring boroughs. The patients tended to the grounds as part of their therapy. It was a novel idea at the time, as was the building design. Kirkbride plan
CausticSubstance says
OP said more pics in comments, but I’m the only one here.
jerry00020001 says
https://weirdnj.com/stories/greystone-park-psychiatric-hospital/
Vic_Sinclair says
This building configuration was called The Kirkbride Plan and was hypothesized to promote mental wellness by being open and sunny while maintaining privacy. About 73 hospitals of this type were constructed in the US.
dogredsox says
House?
LiamG69 says
Theres a soup kitchen nearby that I used to help with when I was really young, always wanted to explore this place when I was there but never really got the chance. I think I was always hoping they’d use it again because the building was so beautiful but by the time it was being demolished the place was overrun with ivy and weeds and it started to just look like a typical unfixable abandoned building. I was devastated when I heard that they knocked it down though, really disappointing thing to happen.
Anacoenosis says
Oh man, I used to sneak around that place as a kid. Wild that they finally tore it down.
mycophagia says
I got to see it once. I never finished editing all the pictures:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjDEqVPP
GrayDawnDown says
Sad that it was demolished. They could have easily retrofitted into high-end townhomes. Keep the facade and interesting details, but compartmentalize into maybe 30 units.
EDIT: Actually, 30 seems way too low. It probably could have fit many, many more.
msjak says
I’m an architectural photographer and I’ve got photos dating back 20 years. I grew up near there, the buildings were amazing and it was such a travesty that they demolished them. There was a whole grassroots movement to save them. The hospital at one time was fully self-sustained. They had pigs, cows and farmland. They even supplied excess to neighboring boroughs. The patients tended to the grounds as part of their therapy. It was a novel idea at the time, as was the building design. Kirkbride plan