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Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Willard, New York
Coordinates	42°40′45″N 76°52′46″W / 42.67917°N 76.87944°W / 42.67917; -76.87944
Built	1869
Architect	George Rowley
Architectural style	Second Empire
NRHP reference No.	75001229
Added to NRHP	March 7, 1975

The Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane is a former state hospital in Willard, New York, United States, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1865 the Legislature authorized the establishment of The Willard Asylum for the Insane. Opened in 1869, the asylum offered low-cost custodial care. The Willard drug treatment center was opened in 1995 on the campus of the former Willard Psychiatric State Hospital, a facility for mental patients.

In 1995, some 400 suitcases that were brought in by the patients were discovered in an asylum attic.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
2. "An act to authorize the establishment of a State Asylum for the chronic insane, and for the better care of the insane poor, to be known as 'The Willard Asylum for the Insane.'". Laws of New York. 88th sess.: 562–565. 1865. hdl:2027/nyp.33433090738380. ISSN 0892-287X. Chapter 342, enacted 8 April 1865, effective immediately.
3. "An act changing the name of the several state asylums for the insane". Laws of New York. 113th sess.: 313–314. 1890. ISSN 0892-287X. Chapter 132, enacted 18 April 1890, effective immediately.
4. Dwyer, Ellen. Homes for the Mad: Life inside two nineteenth-century asylums. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
5. Oatman-Stanford, Hunter (November 5, 2012). "Abandoned Suitcases Reveal Private Lives of Insane Asylum Patients". collectorsweekly. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
6. Davies, Lucy (February 12, 2013). "Emotional baggage: the secret lives hidden in 500 suitcases". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved April 23, 2017.

External links

Media related to Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane at Wikimedia Commons

• Willard Asylum for the Insane at Abandoned
• Willard State Hospital at Asylum Projects
• Willard State Hospital at NYSAsylum

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