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5 New York's Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Location: New York's Kings Park
1885 is the year.
Cost: *$2.5 million, the sale price in 2003
The Kings Park Psychiatric Center was known locally as the "Psych Center" and was formerly a well-known facility in New York. It closed in the 1990s when New York discharged its final patients (or, in some circumstances, moved them to another facility), capping its more than a century of operation.

New York's Kings Park Psychiatric Center, ©Shutterstock/Jill G
Upon its founding, Kings Park was groundbreaking in an era when asylums were notorious for their extreme congestion and flagrant violations of human rights. As a "farm colony," Kings Park employed patients to cultivate crops and tend to livestock. The combination of physical labor and fresh air proved to be a remarkably successful method of therapy.

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