The entire facility was built over the last three decades of the 1800's. As psychiatry moved away from inpatient treatments, it began to decline in use until its closure in 2001. Today, it is slowly deteriorating out of public view as it awaits reuse.
This hospital began with a single building on one hundred acres of land and expanded to, at its peak, over thirty buildings and nine hundred acres. The campus is massive and I was only able to explore a fraction of it.
Anarky War Rabbits started out as a local art/music/design/photography collaboration between 3 people. Over the years the creative minds have ventured out to work on other projects. AWR is mainly a one man show these days.
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