IN The NEWS!!

Hudson River Psychiatric Center

Thurday, May 31, 2007 a fire burned through the 130 year old administration building for more than 24 hours. This local newspaper has more information on the extent of the damage.

Poughkeepsie Jounral Homepage

Stay Tuned for more information.

Update : Authorities blame the blaze on a lightning stike. Plans for renovation and revitalization of the complex are still in place. Developers are waiting for approval of local offiicials. To show your support for the project call the Mayor of Poughkeepsie
Mayor Nancy Cozean
(845) 451-4073
or write to her at
62 Civic Center Plaza
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Visit Hudson Heritage for more information on the redevelopment of Hudson Valley Psychiatric Center.

See video of the fire on You-Tube

Newest Additions
The newest additions to the Abandoned Asylum website is the Asylum Museums page. Click here to see information about museums around the United States.

Brattleboro Retreat, Vermont
Located in Southern Vermont this private institution sits almost unchanged from the early 1900s. From its large administration building to the Retreat Tower, built for the 75th Anniversary of the hospital this is a great place.

Danvers State Hospital Annual Reports

Update :

Hello Everyone,

I would like to thank everyone for being patient while I update and add information to Abandoned Asylum as it has been a while. I will be adding a new hospital to Abandoned Asylum soon....not abandoned but very much asylum. The e-mail link has been fixed as is ready for you questions and comments. Thank again.

Robert W Foster

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This site is a pictorial tour through asylum architecture and history. Please enjoy the pictures, postcards, artifacts, and other interesting sectors of this page. I have changed the look of my site to better organize the contents. Choose from the links to the left to explore.

The newest additions to the Abandoned Asylum archives are Danvers State Hospital, Foxboro State Hospital, Medfield State Hospital, and Rhode Island State Hospital.

Now on display Northampton State Hospital.

Abandoned Asylum would like to welcome back the
Pennhurst State School Page. Includes many current photographs, historic maps, postcards, and aerial photographs.

Thanks for your patience in this update.

Robert Foster

Feature Asylum

Note : For the latest photographs see Asylum Photographs

Special Presentation

Feature Book

HAUNTED PALACE : Danvers Asylum as Art and History
by Michael Ramseur

This book, many years in the making, contains almost 250 pages of startling medical, psychiatric, and historical facts, family memoirs, heartbreaking stories, poetry, fiction, nostalgic images and memoirs, and over 100 images of dramatic , original art. You are about to enter the portals of one of the nation's most beautiful and tragic repositories of human history from a dark chapter of our collective past.

For more information and updates on
availability click on the Title Link Above

ARTSHIP Feb. 2005
ISBN # 0-9765975-0-0
LCCN # 2005922312

Feature Links

Western State Hospital Historical Society
This website offers a detailed history of the this hospital in Fort Steilacoom, Washington. This also includes information about the museum located at the hospital. A great collection of historic photographs makes this page a featured link.