ABANDONED ASYLUM. The grounds of the former asylum are still home to a few unusual—and extremely eerie—cemeteries. Jul 27, 2018 - Explore Linda Kloran's board "Ohio Mental Hospitals", followed by 623 people on Pinterest. Levi T. Scofield, a Cleveland, Ohio architect designed the building. The hospital finally closed its doors in 1993, having donated much of its property to Ohio University, who had already begun to … See more ideas about ohio, abandoned asylums, asylum. The Ridges was formally an asylum for the mentally ill in Athens, Ohio. Ohio State Insane Asylum Tuberculosis Ward, Athens Posted on April 28, 2010 by toghs The old tuberculosis ward is the sole abandoned building remaining on … The Ridges in Athens, OH. Large asylums like this were common in America during this period because treatment mostly involved separating the mentally ill from society. Asylums existed in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo, Akron, and Dayton. Located in Athens, Ohio, it first opened in 1874. What was once the Athens Lunatic Asylum is now owned by Ohio University, but parts of the facility still hold shadows, stains and spirits of former mental patients who often suffered from violent treatments such as lobotomies. During the mid-1900s, the Athens Lunatic Asylum was a waking nightmare for anyone unlucky enough to be housed there. Sarah Hina CC BY-NC / Via Flickr: 126919879@N03 "This is an abandoned insane asylum. Within two years of opening, administrators renamed the Athens Asylum as the Athens Hospital for the Insane. The Ridges was originally known as The Athens Mental Health Center. Athens Lunatic Asylum (Athens, Ohio) Though it opened as a modest 500-patient facility in 1874, Athens Lunatic Asylum grew exponentially over its first several decades in operation, peaking in the 1950s with a patient population of nearly 2,000 on a 1,000-acre campus. The asylum formally opened on January 9, 1874. Southeastern Ohio's hospital was established in Athens, near the campus of Ohio University. In 1868, construction began on the Athens Asylum. Today the only one of the Ohio mental hospitals which still stands in anything resembling original condition is the Athens Mental Health Center––also known as The Ridges. It was the last mental hospital in the United States to perform lobotomies. Asylum on the Hill Katherine Ziff Proudly powered by Weebly. The Ridges (Athens Lunatic Asylum), Radar Hill Trail Athens, Ohio USA, Athens, OH is home to one of the most haunted places in the state, The Ridges (aka Athens Lunatic Asylum). Come explore its mystery with Haunted Journeys.Haunted Journeys is your one source to find haunted inns, spectral places to explore, ghost tours to discover a town with and supernatural events … Margaret wasn’t a particularly troubled patient at the asylum, so she was given a certain amount of freedom to roam around the asylum and spent her days wandering the grounds, even going to town on her own … On December 1, 1978, a female psychiatric patient named Margaret Schilling disappeared from one of the wards at Athens Lunatic Asylum in Ohio. Books. Therefore, enormous buildings needed to be built to house all the patients. Home Asylums Links Museums About Contact Asylum Stereoviews Athens State Hospital Athens, Ohio Postcards.