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From Motts: Riverside State Hospital [closed in 2003]: This insane asylum, as it was once called, sits hidden amidst green rolling hills, with a grand view of the mountainous landscape and a nearby river. The main building on the campus is a Kirkbride design in Gothic-revival style, where male and female patients were separated by the two wings on either side of a central administration section. Construction began in 1868, and finished in 1871. [Read more here]

Opacity / Motts is one of my favorite sites. Here are a few photos from his “Delicate” series posted 14 March 2010 of the “Riverside State Hospital”

As with many of the abandoned places he photographs, Motts gave this hospital the pseudonym Riverside State Hospital. [NOTE: see bottom of this post]:

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I think it’s the Hudson River State Hospital in in Poughkeepsie, New York. Compare:

• Pic #1 from Kirkbride Buildings and
• Pic #2 from Motts.