Constructed in 1925, the 200-acre, 22-building Forest Haven asylum in Laurel, Maryland, was closed in 1991 when its final 15 patients were ... As he made his way from room to room, Joo was able ...

A 1916 photo of male patients playing billiards in one of the recreation rooms in the west wing, where men were housed. A space in the gutted west wing that would have been similar to that of the ...

But others are unexpectedly humanizing. As this book reveals, patients in asylums didn't just sit in padded rooms. They also ran their own farms and baked their own bread. Each of these facilities ...

In the 19th century, the mentally ill were often sent to horrific asylums ... with color — a room full of rust-colored urns filled with the ashes of long-dead patients, a long hallway with ...

Hamm shuffled into the first room, where dozens of patients lay on and under cots ... "When most people think of the insane asylum they think of the Bowen building," Freeman said.

Guests can stay overnight in former patients' rooms at this late 19th-century ... which operated as an insane asylum until the mid-1970s. Many similar buildings were also decommissioned and ...

Bernard McLaughlin, an Irishman, 31 years of age, who had previously escaped twice from the Ward's Island Insane Asylum, got away from there a third time late Friday night, and last night regaled ...

He was sent by his family to the Dixmont Insane Asylum, at Pittsburg. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...