Crumbling Castles: The Lost Asylums at Taunton and Northampton

by Tom Kirsch

In the towns of Taunton and Northampton, Massachusetts' earliest public psychiatric hospitals were left abandoned and whispered about by those living in their shadows. Built using the "Kirkbride plan," these relics were designed specifically to cure mental illness based on early nineteenth-century cure theories, which included fresh air, regimentation and an aesthetic environment. Their elegant spires and arched passages were feats of engineering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1634991192
• ISBN13: 9781634991193
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: America Through Time
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"