Greystone Park

My doors first opened on August 17, 1876. I used to be called the State Asylum for the Insane. The design of myself and many other mental institutions in the nineteenth century was done by Dr. Thomas Kirkbride. Since my opening on that hot day in 1876, the Doctor's main intention was to have all of the wards facing towards the outside while being set on a picturesque piece of land, thereby creating the concept of a “therapeutic landscape.” My Main Building was the first building built on the campus, and before the Pentagon in Washington DC, it was biggest building in the world on a single foundation. This building was just the beginning of other massive structures to be made which eventually formed the mini city that Greystone was then but is not today. I continue to help people with psychiatric illnesses but not in the original buildings. The state has also ordered an entirely new hospital to be built, which may be done as soon as September 2007. My fate, as the Main Building, is still undecided...help save me! Nothing will be built again like me.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | ClassifiedsI edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4