This psychiatric hospital opened in 1931 in the suburbs of New York as a way for patients to escape the pollution and noise of the city. It contained a bowling alley, theatre and power plant which helped the complex operate as its own independent complex. The hospital remains in operation, though many of the buildings have been abandoned for years.
Photo: "Morgue Table"
This New York psychiatric hospital opened to the public in 1931 with 60 only male patients, though they had beds to support over 5,000. The hospital was designed as a "theraputic suburb," where patients could leave the noise and pollution of the city and seek treatments to cure their illness. By 1959, the hospital reached it peak and was home to 9,000 residents, including a staff of 2,000.
Photo: "Lucky 13"
Left over bowling shoes in a now abandoned bowling alley that was once part of a New York psychiatric hospital.
Photo: "Disregard"
This psychiatric hospital in rural New York opened in 1931 with 60 male patients, but had sufficient beds for over 5,000. As with many early psychiatric hospitals, this one also had its own working farm, a power plant, industrial shops and bowling alley inside the Assembly Hall.
Photo: "Cyan"
Bowling balls left inside the bowling alley of a former New York Psychiatric Hospital.
Photo: "Safety Rail"
Construction began on this rural New York psychaitric hospital in 1927. At the time, the hospital was known to be the best of its kind in the country. It contained a working farm, power plant and industrial shops. Portions of the hospital are still in use, but buildings such as this one have been abandoned for years.
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This bowling alley is part of a rural New York Psychiatric Hospital founded in 1927.
Photo: "Stripes"
Pool table inside a bowling alley at a 1920's State Hospital, constructed in rural New York to get patients away from the big city. In 1931, the hospital opened with 60 male patients, transferred from another hospital, but at the peak in 1959, the hospital had 7,000 patients and 2,000 residents.