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Website preserves history of Kirkbride asylums like now-closed Hudson River Psychiatric Center

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With its soaring towers, slate mansard roof, arched entranceways and Gothic windows set in polychrome high brick walls, the massive Hudson River Psychiatric Center, located on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, typifies the gloomy, scary-looking state asylums dating from the Victorian Age. Yet it was an incredibly distinguished building when it was completed in 1871. Designed by architect Frederic Withers on sylvan grounds landscaped by the famous team of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the Hudson River State Hospital, as it was originally called, reflected one man’s progressive notion in the mid-19th century of asylums as recuperative places for healing.
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