Venturing Inside Rochester’s Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital

  / martinexplores_   Beneath layers of dust and peeling paint, the Rochester Psychiatric Hospital, also known as the Terrence Building, now stands as a haunting monument to a forgotten era of mental health care. It was first opened in 1959 as a psychiatric hospital in addition to a geriatrics facility. It then became the new home of the Rochester State Hospital, which had existed since 1891 after replacing the Monroe County Insane Asylum. The tower had a different department on each floor, in addition to a general hospital on the 13th and 14th floor, with the 5th floor housing the criminally insane and the basement holding a lab and morgue. During the building's history, allegations of patient abuse within the tower's premises often surfaced. Furthermore, many of the patients were treated as "lost causes, impossible to reintegrate with society" and were essentially locked away inside the tower. The tower was eventually closed down in 1995 as one of several buildings shuttered in the 1990s by the now-named Rochester Psychiatric Center, and patients were moved to newer buildings of the surrounding campus. #UrbanExploration #Urbex #AbandonedPlaces #ForgottenPlaces #HauntedPlaces #AbandonedHospital #RochesterNY