Photographer Christopher Payne spent the last seven years visiting and revisiting 70 abandoned state mental hospitals in 30 states, touring the grounds with janitors and getting purposefully ...

Payne turned his photographic journey into a book titled "Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. " Below, see his eerie photos of abandoned mental hospitals all over the US.

While many state mental hospitals in the U.S. have been closed and demolished, their history will stand forever as a remnant of the psychiatry of years past. References Kirkbride, T.S. (1854).

Asylum: Photographs by ... Inside the Closed World of Mental Hospitals (MIT Press, 2009), ... The Buffalo State Hospital, for instance, designed by a youthful H.H. Richardson in 1870, ...

1. Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, Ga. Construction began in 1837; opened in 1842. Once the largest psychiatric facility in the country and possibly the world. At its peak in the 1960s, it ...

He visited 70 asylums in 30 states over a six-year span and completed the book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals in 2009. Patient dresses made at Clarinda State Hospital ...

Barber shop – Buffalo State Hospital Hospital storage – Buffalo State Hospital In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed The Community Mental Health Act, which called for a new approach to the ...

Latest in a series on the names attached to Worcester schools, streets and parks. In name and function, Asylum Street carries ...

The slightly creepy Cottage #30 will be home to the new “Asylum After Dark” tours, which will begin next month in part of the historic Village at Grand Traverse Commons development.