Inebriate Asylum - Binghamton, NY
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N 42° 06.400 W 075° 51.985
18T E 428365 N 4661982
The Inebriate Asylum was put on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places In 1997. It became the Binghamton State Hospital.
Waymark Code: WMYDRG
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/03/2018
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The Gothic Revival exterior was designed by New York architect Isaac G. Perry and construction was completed in 1864. In 1993 the main building was closed due to safety concerns.
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"The New York State Inebriate Asylum, designed for the medical treatment and restraint of inebriates, is situated in Binghamton, New York. It was founded in 1858. The building is on a beautiful elevated site east of the town upon a farm of 250 acres; it is three hundred and sixty-five feet long, eighty-two feet broad, built of stone and brick, in the Tudor castellated style of architecture; "