Lunatic: The Rise and Fall of an American Asylum by Edward S. Gleason

Lunatic: The Rise and Fall of an American Asylum

Edward S. Gleason

92 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
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The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, constructed between 1858 and 1881, is the largest hand-cut blue sandstone building in the Western Hemisphere. This haunted Gothic structure was the end of the line for West Virginia's insane for 150 years. There...

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