Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane

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Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane
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Location Willard, New York
Coordinates 42°40′45″N76°52′46″W / 42.67917°N 76.87944°W / 42.67917; -76.87944
Built1869
ArchitectGeorge Rowley
Architectural styleSecond Empire
NRHP reference No. 75001229 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 7, 1975

The Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane is a former state hospital in Willard, New York, United States, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]

In 1865 the Legislature authorized the establishment of The Willard Asylum for the Insane. [3] [4] Opened in 1869, the asylum offered low-cost custodial care. [5] The Willard drug treatment center was opened in 1995 on the campus of the former Willard Psychiatric State Hospital, a facility for mental patients.

In 1995, some 400 suitcases that were brought in by the patients were discovered in an asylum attic. [6] [7]

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ↑ Cornelia E. Brooke (February 1975). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 25, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
  3. ↑ "An act to authorize the establishment of a State Asylum for the chronic insane, and for the better care of the insane poor, to be known as 'The Willard Asylum for the Insane.'". Laws of New York . 88th sess.: 562–565. 1865. hdl:2027/nyp.33433090738380. ISSN   0892-287X. Chapter 342, enacted 8 April 1865, effective immediately.
  4. ↑ "An act changing the name of the several state asylums for the insane". Laws of New York . 113th sess.: 313–314. 1890. ISSN   0892-287X. Chapter 132, enacted 18 April 1890, effective immediately.
  5. ↑ Dwyer, Ellen. Homes for the Mad: Life inside two nineteenth-century asylums. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
  6. ↑ Oatman-Stanford, Hunter (November 5, 2012). "Abandoned Suitcases Reveal Private Lives of Insane Asylum Patients". collectorsweekly. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
  7. ↑ Davies, Lucy (February 12, 2013). "Emotional baggage: the secret lives hidden in 500 suitcases". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved April 23, 2017.

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