Rescuing ‘the Castle’ From Some Dark Days, Architecturally and Medically

From the April 29th edition of The New York Times:

The New York State Inebriate Asylum in Binghamton, N.Y. was built in 1858. Its original purpose was stark: to serve as a government-run treatment center for alcoholics and later "the chronic insane." The vast stone building, one of the early works of Isaac Perry, a prominent New York architect, had been abandoned since 1993. It is known to locals as "the Castle."

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Thanks go to John Devlin for bring this article to my attention.

Photography by Andrew Henderson for The New York Times.