Saturday, January 18, 2014

I might have been in one of these Mayview ~ Maryview…updated

… around 2007 or so I was looking at furniture and found a website that had some Cindy Crawford designed furniture on it and picked out a white cottage styled bedroom suit I liked…did not think it would be related to asylums but soon after discovered the Exploration site containing lots of London Asylum images…

Farview State Hospital
Waymart
c 1912
1096
1947
repurposed
now a correctional facility

Lawrence Frick State Hospital
Cresson
1916
closed 1984
cottage

Marcy State Hospital
Pittsburgh
1915
closed 1982
Cottage

Mayview State Hospital
Pittsburgh
1938
3785
1967
n/a
closed 2008
cottage
began in 1892 as

Pennsylvania State Hospitals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philadelphia State Hospital
Philadelphia
1907
7000+
1960
n/a
closed 1990. demolished 2006
Cottage