Description
The Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital used to be more than a building; it embodied a whole era of uniquely American history, from the unparalleled humanitarian efforts of Dorothea Dix to the revolutionary architectural concepts of Thomas Story Kirkbride. After well over a century of service, Greystone used to be left abandoned in 2008. From the time it closed until its demolition in 2015, Greystone was the focus of a passionate preservation effort that drew national attention and served to spark the public’s interest in historical asylum preservation. A number of the images contained on this book were rescued from the basement of Greystone in 2002 and have never been seen by the public. They seem courtesy of the Morris Plains Museum and its group of workers, who spent many hours digitally archiving the photographs in order that future generations might better know Greystone’s history.