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This is The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (also called Weston State Hospital) at 50 S River Ave, Weston, West Virginia. It was designed using the Kirkbride Plan in the Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival styles by Baltimore architect Richard Snowden Andrews, Construction started in 1858, and the first patients were admitted in October 1864, the 200-foot central clock tower was completed in 1871, and separate rooms for black people were completed in 1873. And construction was completed in 1881. The hospital was intended to be self-sufficient, with a farm, dairy, waterworks, and cemetery located on its grounds, which ultimately reached 666 acres in area. A gas well was drilled on the hospital grounds in 1902. Originally designed to house 250 patients, the hospital held 717 patients by 1880; 1,661 in 1938; over 1,800 in 1949; at its peak, 2,600 in the 1950s in overcrowded conditions. It was forcibly closed in May 1994 due to changes in patient treatment. The building and its grounds have since been mostly vacant, The Weston Hospital Revitalization Committee a non-profit organization was formed in 2000 for the purpose of aiding the preservation of the building and finding appropriate tenants. It is open for tours and other events to raise money for its restoration. Looking southwest. Other structures on the grounds can be seen in: 1985 Film Roll 1 Photo 1-MLE-1 (1985 Lewis County, WV), 1985 Film Roll 1 Photo 1-MLE-3 (1985 Lewis County, WV), 1985 Film Roll 1 Photo 1-MLE-4 (1985 Lewis County, WV), 1985 Film Roll 1 Photo 1-MLE-5 (1985 Lewis County, WV), 1985 Film Roll 1 Photo 1-MLE-6 (1985 Lewis County, WV), 1985 Film Roll 1 Photo 1-MLE-7 (1985 Lewis County, WV), 1985 Film Roll 67 Photo 67-MLE-9 (1985 Lewis County, WV), 1989 Film Roll 11 Photo 11-OLE-27 (1989 Lewis County, WV), 1989 Film Roll 11 Photo 11-OLE-28 (1989 Lewis County, WV) and 2000 Film Roll 1C Photo 1C-TLE-5 (2000 Lewis County, WV).

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