The grounds of Willard State Hospital, once the home of the largest mental institution in Upstate New York, once again lay abandoned as its last occupant, DOCCS’ Willard Drug Treatment Campus, has ...

STAUNTON – Some say the old Western State Asylum is haunted. We don’t know by whom. And when we look to learn more about the human beings who once lived there, for some of them, all we can find is a ...

Some hospitals that date back centuries have fallen into disrepair. Among them, some former psychiatric hospitals are shrouded in controversy over patient mistreatment. Others, like ...

The Willard State Hospital (a.k.a. Willard Asylum for the Chronic Pauper Insane) used to be America’s largest home for people The Willard State Hospital (a.k.a. Willard Asylum for the Chronic Pauper ...

-There will be a free Sutter County Museum Speaker Series event from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the museum. Photographer Jon Crispin has been photographing at the Willard Asylum (later the Willard Psychiatric ...

WILLARD, N.Y. — She came to the asylum in the summer of 1930 with a suitcase stuffed with hand-stitched baby booties and quilts. She was worn out. At age 40, she had endured a miscarriage, the death ...