Today, there are more than a hundred abandoned asylums in the United States
that, to many people, probably seem scary and imposing, but not so long ago
they weren't seen as scary at all. Many of them were built part of a treatment
regimen developed by a singular Philadelphia doctor named Thomas Story
Kirkbride. Kirkbride was obsessed with architecture and how it could be
harnessed therapeutically to cure people suffering from mental illness.
The Kirkbride
Plan
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Today, there are more than a hundred abandoned asylums in the United States
that, to many people, probably seem scary and imposing, but not so long ago
they weren't seen as scary at all. Many of them were built part of a treatment
regimen developed by a singular Philadelphia doctor named Thomas Story
Kirkbride. Kirkbride was obsessed with architecture and how it could be
harnessed therapeutically to cure people suffering from mental illness.
The Kirkbride
Plan
Read less