AvalonBay’s ambitious adaptive reuse project delivered 433 apartments to a Boston suburb while preserving the site of the historic Danvers Lunatic Asylum Adaptive reuse—finding new uses for ...

The huge Danvers building, meanwhile ... but other asylums in the US have recorded similarly grim cases. Athens Lunatic Asylum in Ohio became known for the case of Magaret Schilling in 1979.

In the mid-18th century, a fervor for compassionate care of the mentally ill led the commonwealth to build the Danvers State Lunatic Asylum. By the 20th century, factors that had little to do with ...

DANVERS, Mass. -- In real estate, not even spooky trumps location. Across the nation, former state hospitals for the mentally ill -- with dated names like "lunatic asylum" -- are being converted ...

was once crowned by the eerie Gothic spires of Danvers State Hospital – known in its time as a lunatic asylum. Long considered one of the most haunted sites in America, the hill was the scene of ...

Over its 100-plus year history, the facility was called the Athens Lunatic Asylum, the Athens Hospital ... including Buffalo State Hospital in New York, Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts ...

The empty buildings of the former insane asylum were being renovated into apartments and condominiums. Danvers State Hospital was erected in 1878 but had been abandoned since 1992 due to ...

Freeman, who murdered his daughter in Pocassett in December, 1883, but was adjudged not guilty by the jury by reason of insanity, and was committed to the Danvers Insane Asylum during his natural ...