Old Main, Central Virginia In 1848 slaves in Virginia could be admitted to private asylums if their owners paid for

Administration Building, Pittsburgh City Home and Hospital In 1804, the first poor house for Pittsburgh was built and grew to

This is a revision from an older post. To view the post, click here. This New York State Homeopathic hospital

In the early fifteenth century, Flavio Biondo created a guide to the ruins and topography of ancient Rome, for which

I met up with my friends on Easter weekend at a former state hospital for the chronically insane in central

This Sanatorium was constructed in central Pennsylvania for the treatment of tuberculosis. The facility originated in 1901 with a series

The paragraph entitled, “The Blockley Smell” from Founders’ Week Memorial Volume, containing an Account of the Two Hundred and Twenty-fifth

I spent the Fourth of July weekend with my friends tasting wine, camping and exploring the Finger Lakes. If you

I’m about seventeen years old, in the summer of 2003 between my junior and senior year of High School. It

Day 1 I’m bent down on one knee, pulling a white string out of the pocket of my backpack and

Alternate hosting site This two-building hospital, designed by Cudworth and Woodworth, opened its doors in the fall of 1904. By

Designed by Frederick Clarke Withers with respect to Thomas Kirkbride’s plan, this 509,853 sq. ft. High Victorian Gothic-style hospital was

BAD CARE 1. 1732 – 1767: The “Green Meadow” Almshouse on 4th and Pine streets. 2. 1767 – 1835: The

It was fifty-two degrees and sunny in New Jersey today. The tunnels were freezing and my chucks were sopping wet;

Resting a moment while contemplating life, truth and colour in the depths of his dark room, Louis Daguerre cries out,

Walking on a foot of frozen snow over the hill-side, we slipped and grabbed onto branches with our gloved hands

Climbing up an embankment, we trail the chain-linked fence through the woods past the shell of a red-bricked house –

It’s a hot summer night and I’m in the back of a Volkswagen bus in New York near Lake Ontario;

After eight hours in the car, we spend the afternoon in our hotel room as the drapes are drawn to

Mentally ill and committed, a patient in a starched gown stands idle with limp hands and matte hair; a black,