Hudson River State Hospital - The Kirkbride gets a new life

Описание: I absolutely love this location and all of it’s buildings. I have been here before in the past and when I read that they were redeveloping, I had to come back. The Kirkbride design is a beautiful asylum design and it was awesome to see this amazing layout and I wanted to share it with you.

As of 2016, approximately 33 of these identified Kirkbride Plan hospital buildings still exist in their original form in some degree. There were 100 mental facilities at one time in the United States under this design developed by principles of Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride.

Please enjoy the final tour of the Hudson Valley Psychiatric Hospital and if your interested in the history and future plans, links are provided below.

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The Hospital includes a number of unique buildings:

Main Building (the Kirkbride), a High Victorian Gothic building used for administrative purposes

Patient Wings, which split off the Kirkbride, housed patients. The male ward splits off to the south, and is much larger than the female wing to the north. It was struck by lightning on May 31, 2007, igniting a serious fire.

Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches were available to patients, one of which was near the male ward.

A morgue, with refrigerated cold chambers was located on the northeast corner of the property.

A power house was built, and still stands, to the northeast of the Kirkbride to provide power to the various buildings. Its smokestack is visible from Route 9 as well as nearby Marist College.

Ryon Hall opened in 1934 and housed violent or criminally insane patients. It is on the very southern property line, visible from Home Depot, in the shadow of the much larger Cheney Building.

The Clarence O. Cheney Building, opened in 1952, is a ten-story steel structure with a brick facade. Named after Dr. Clarence O. Cheney, MD (1887-1947), the president of the American Psychiatry Association from 1935-1936, and hospital's superintendent from the 1920s until 1946, the building held doctor's offices and medical examination rooms. The building did provide some patient housing.

The Snow Recreation Center opened in 1971 and provided recreational relief for patients, sporting two bowling alley lanes, a lunch counter, an auditorium, and an indoor swimming pool. Skylights provided natural lighting.

Atlas Obscura info: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/h...

Soon to be called Hudson Heritage, the redevelopment plans: https://hvmag.com/home-real-estate/po...

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