The Vanishing of America’s Historic Mental Asylums

[samclemens]

http://hyperallergic.com/202978/the-vanishing-of-americas-historic-mental-asylums/

[mcphage]

Call me biased, but I think Buffalo has one of the best former-mental-asylums: the Richardson-Olmsted Complex:

http://www.buffalonews.com/storyimage/BN/20141016/OPINION/14...

Which, after being empty for years, is finally being refitted as a hotel & conference center.