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Hudson River State Hospital

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For 141 years, Hudson River State Hospital was home to tens of thousands of individuals suffering from mental illness.


Famous architects Frederick Clark Withers and Calvert Vaux drafted the main building in 1869. The facility grew from
Historian Joseph Galante is a former state hospital staffer and current graduate student of mental health studies at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York. Lynn Rightmyer is a registered nurse and graduate of Hudson River's nursing school, class of 1975. Out of Rightmyer's 43-year tenure as a nurse, 19 years were spent on the wards at Hudson River. Both Rightmyer and Galante are history curators with the Hudson River State Hospital Nurses Alumni Association (HRSHNAA), from which many of the archival images in this book appear.

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  • Arcadia Publishing ( Brand
  • Aug 6, 2018 Pub Date:
  • 1467129690 ISBN-10:
  • 9781467129695 ISBN-13:
  • 128 Pages
  • 9.1 in * 6.5 in * 0.4 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: