Buffalo State Hospital
Buffalo State Hospital – June 2, 2024
Another fantastic trip to Buffalo State Hospital with Preservation Works. We were able to access some of the violent wards further out in the female wing of the Kirkbride this time, which was a real treat. Some of these shots are covering the same ground from previous trips, but its the experience of photographing in…
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Buffalo State Hospital – September 24, 2023
Preservation Works recently organized a photography tour of Buffalo State Hospital. Having greatly enjoyed my previous tours of the Kirkbride there was no question of whether I was going to make the 7 hour drive to Buffalo. During my previous visits in 2013 they were beginning to convert part of the building in to a…
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Buffalo State Hospital – July 13, 2013
We made a second trip to Buffalo State to do another tour just a couple of months after our first visit to Buffalo State Hospital.
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Buffalo State Hospital – May 5, 2013 – Set 2
During our first visit to Buffalo State we got very lucky. Naturally, after the tour ended I was asking about getting more time to photograph (which I would be more than happy to pay for), etc. Christine, the absolutely fantastic person in charge of operations at the Richardson Olmsted Complex indicated that I would really…
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Buffalo State Hospital – May 5, 2013 – Set 1
Construction on the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane began in 1872 with the hospital opening in 1880. The architect was Henry Hobson Richardson who designed many well known buildings, including Trinity Church in Boston and the Thomas Crane Memorial Library on Harvard’s campus. The landscape architect was Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed central park.…
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