Willard State Hospital was an asylum in Willard, New York that operated from 1870-1995. Currently, some of the buildings house a residential drug treatment program, but many have been left abandoned. There have been many efforts to preserve the memory of Willard and its patients, so instead of writing up a history, allow me to direct you to the book The Lives They Left Behind, as well as this amazingly comprehensive PDF of the history of Willard, and a genealogy resource, The Inmates of Willard.
Please note that the photos in this post are (as of 2022) a decade old. The buildings, which were already collapsing in on themselves, are in much worse condition now.
I sell photography prints of Willard and some of the items salvaged from the now collapsed buildings in my online shop.
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