Abandoned Americanothing ever dies
Photograph taken at Taunton State Hospital
Gallery/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/taunton-state-hospital
Jaci@AbandonedAmerica astonishingly beautiful
This must fulfill all of the principles of building design
So much elegance, harmony, balance
Light, space, fluidity
To think the society that built this believed that the mentally ill would benefit from the beauty!
This must fulfill all of the principles of building design
So much elegance, harmony, balance
Light, space, fluidity
To think the society that built this believed that the mentally ill would benefit from the beauty!
@jaci that legitimately was one of the curative aspects that asylums were meant to have when they were built, which swiftly got lost in bureaucracy, overcrowding, and underfunding
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It's powers are still clear, despite the abandonment. And bureaucracy and penny punching and no doubt the moral judgement of the ill as less worthy.
It's powers are still clear, despite the abandonment. And bureaucracy and penny punching and no doubt the moral judgement of the ill as less worthy.