Kirkbride: The Great American Asylum Buildings

The Kirkbride plan and the age of the great American asylum buildings — why every state built a stone palace for the insane, and what became of them.

Playlist by @asylum_story

9 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Postcards: Kirkbride Documentary — Pioneer PBS
2. Psychiatric Hospitals | Insane Asylums | Mental Institutes | The Kirkbride Plans — Zachary Denman
3. Why did 19th Century Asylum Architecture in America far exceed necessity? Examples from every state — Jarid Boosters
4. Exploring a Massive Kirkbride Asylum - Amazing 19th Century Architecture — The Proper People
5. An Apparatus For Lunacy - A History of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum — Allegany Preservation Society Limited
6. The Disturbing Story of America's Most Overcrowded Asylum: Hudson River State Hospital — Hallways Of Time
7. The Disturbing Story of America’s Most Beautiful Asylum: Traverse City State Hospital — Ward Files
8. The Entire Story of the Buffalo State Asylum — America's Most Beautiful Madhouse — The Quiet Wards
9. The Terrifying Experiments Of America’s Forgotten Asylums — The Diary Of Julius Caesar