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[LordSpork]

After visiting the Eastern State Penitentiary in PA a few months back, I started looking for more old penitentiaries to visit and found this place. So I signed up for the photo tour and this past weekend drive the 4 hours over several mountains and had a blast.
Little history:

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The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, subsequently the Armand Auclerc Weston State Hospital, was a Kirkbride psychiatric hospital that operated from 1864 until 1994 by the government of the U.S. state of West Virginia, in the city of Weston. The hospital was bought by Joe Jordan in 2007, and partly opened to tours and other money raising events for its restoration. The hospital's main building is the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in the United States, and, as Weston Hospital Main Building, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990.

More can be found on the wiki page..http://en.wikipedia...._Lunatic_Asylum


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[mira]

Nice set! This place looks awesome, well worth paying to see it. It so nice to see the word toboggan (mispelling and all meant as a hat not a sled, little taste of home. Lol. I love #48!

Edited by mira, 15 August 2011 - 07:39 AM.