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  • London Asylum

    Opened in 1870, the London Asylum for the Insane sits amid a beautifully calming wooded landscape. Among its scattered architectural remnants are cottages, a chapel, and the imposing gothic-revival Medical Examination Building.

    Advanced for its 1903 completion, the medical facilities boasted skylights, solaria, dental care, and isolated dorms. Hydrotherapy was offered as a forward-looking treatment alongside “moral therapy,” a compassionate and humanitarian-based approach. Though the decaying operating theater serves as a pointed reminder of less empathetic methods.

    Despite progressive intentions, asyla like London’s are typically seen as nightmare fodder. However these abandonments afford a hopeful perspective, where architectural form followed the function of the most innovative and compassionate patient care available—at the time.

    • Medical Bldg
    • Patience
    • Pink/Green
    • Off the Hinges
    • Unframed
    • Tin Roof, Rusted
    • Arched Corridor
    • Operating Theatre
    • Operating Theatre 2
    • Pixelization
    • OR
    • Rm 215
    • Scrub In
    • Rm 216
    • Pop Wall
    • Warmth
    • Rm 223
    • Tube
    • Tub
    • One Call
    • In the Dark
    • View of the Atrium
    • Teeth
    • Bldg Y
    • Bldg W
    • Chapel
    • Hapel of Hope
    • Bldg V
    • Broadside
    • Kirkbride Knew Better
    • Bldg P
    • Bricked
    • Boarded Up
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