Photo: "Caged"

Inside the isolation cells at Weston State Hospital. 

In 1858, when plans to construct a mental hospital in West Virginia began, the state called upon two experts in the treatment of the mentally ill: Francis T. Striblin of Eastern Virginia and Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. They designed a plan for a hospital that would house 250 patients and architect R. Snowden Andrews executed the concept. The proposal, based on the Kirkbride Plan, was estimated to cost $395,000.

Photo: "Exfoliation"

Over the years, Kings Park Psychiatric Center became a self-sufficient community. Staff and patients would work around the campus every day of the week, performing tasks as part of an occupational therapy program. They planted and maintained crops and livestock, made clothes and participated in various construction projects.

Photo: "Traces of Orb"

Inside an abandoned rose greenhouse in the Bay Area.

(Night. 120 seconds. Lit by moonlight and ambient streetlights.)

Photo: "Rabbit Hole"

The first patients were admitted to Weston State Hospital in 1864. This Kirkbride was the first West Virginia state funded building and deemed the largest hand cut stone masonry building in North America.

Photo: "The Fallout"

Inside the dormitory building at the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital in New York. This building contained dorm rooms, offices, day rooms and a seclusion wing. 

Photo: "Stealth"

The construction of Weston State Hospital began in 1858 but wasn't actually completed until 1880, however the Hospital began accommodating patients in 1864. The building is the largest hand-cut stone building in North America.

Photo: "Bipolar"

A peeling rainbow mural on the fourth floor of Building 93 at Kings Park Psychiatric Hospital.

Photo: "Nature Protrudes"

The six story children's hospital at the Sea View tuberculosis hospital campus in Staten Island was built between 1935-1937 and was the last tuberculosis related building built on the campus. It has full height wings, curved solarium bays and open air balconies.

Photo: "Counter Weight"

Many famous people were once placed behind the walls of Kings Park Psychiatric Center. Bud Powell, a famous jazz painist once played on an old upright piano in a rec room inside this building, Building 93.

Photo: "Infinity"

Inside Building 93 at Kings Park Psychiatric Hospital in Long Island, New York.

Photo: "Escape Route"

Deteriorating restroom inside the abandoned Heritage Inn at Rough & Ready Island, a Cold War communications outpost.

Photo: "Reconstructed"

The old dormitory building at Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital had day rooms and a seclusion wing.

Photo: "Reinventing the Wheel"

Night. 120 seconds. Lit by moonlight and ambient streetlights.

Photo: "Whistling Dixie"

Denture cups left behind at a New York Sanatorium.

Photo: "Kitchenaid"

The Children's Hospital at a New York Sanatorium was constructed in the 1930's, a few decades after the original campus was constructed in 1913.