Formerly known as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, the Richardson Olmsted Complex stands today with its iconic Gothic towers at 141 years old. Construction began in 1870, designed by American architect Henry Hobson Richardson and American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and was completed approximately 20 years later.
Asylums + Institutions
“When Charles Dickens visited America in 1842, he wanted to see just two things — Niagara Falls and Eastern State.” In 1829, when the Eastern State Penitentiary was built, it was the largest and most expensive public structure in the country.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is a quarter of a mile long, covering nine acres in Weston, West Virginia. The hospital’s main building is one of the largest hand-cut stone masonry buildings in Unites States.
Georgia Lunatic Asylum is in an extreme state of decay. Everything was falling. The ceiling, doors and floors – they were all falling apart.
Often times, you never know what memories will be left behind in these abandoned hospitals. Some buildings have been cleaned out leaving long hallways and empty rooms, where others look like everyone disappeared one day and never looked back.