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Sedro Woolley, Washington
Visitors and explorers at Northern State Hospital describe shadow figures, footsteps with no source, distant whispers and crying in the old…
Madison, Georgia
Madison was spared by General Sherman's March to the Sea, leaving much of its historic district, including this building, standing today.…
Williamson, West Virginia
The Old Hospital on College Hill in Williamson opened in 1928 and served as a hospital until 1988, later holding offices until 2014. It was…
Pensacola, Florida
The Daughters of Charity, a Catholic religious order, spent over $400,000 building this late Gothic Revival hospital, designed by…
Spring City, Pennsylvania
Pennhurst State School and Hospital opened in 1908 and housed thousands of children and adults with intellectual and physical disabilities…
Winchester, Indiana
The Randolph County Infirmary, built in 1899 on the site of an earlier county poor farm, housed the county's poor, sick, elderly and…
Athens, Ohio
The Ridges, the former Athens Lunatic Asylum, opened in 1874 on a hillside above Athens and treated thousands of patients until it closed…
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Rock Ledge Ranch, now a living-history site in Colorado Springs, includes a building that served as a tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1800s.…
East Bethany, New York
Rolling Hills Asylum in East Bethany is the former Genesee County Poor Farm and Infirmary, which cared for the poor, sick and mentally ill…
Dunseith, North Dakota
San Haven was built in 1912 as a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Turtle Mountains near Dunseith, and from the late 1940s served as a home…
St. Augustine, Florida
Visitors and staff at the Spanish Military Hospital Museum describe flashes of light and apparitions throughout, most often a one-legged…
Colfax, Washington
St. Ignatius Hospital in Colfax was built by the Sisters of Providence, who laid its cornerstone in June 1893 and ran it as the hospital…
Weston, West Virginia
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, also called Weston State Hospital, is a huge stone Kirkbride-plan hospital that took in patients from…
Traverse City, Michigan
The Traverse City State Hospital, founded in 1885 as the Northern Michigan Asylum, treated people with mental illness for a century before…
Louisville, Kentucky
Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened in 1910 as a tuberculosis hospital in southwest Louisville, and its large 1926 main building closed as a…
Williamsburg, Virginia
The Wren Building at William & Mary, begun in 1695, is the oldest college building in the United States and was used as a hospital during…