Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum (Great Lakes Books Series)

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Within the nineteenth century, in all probability no option to mental illness used to be more compassionate than that of hospital administrator Thomas Story Kirkbride, whose asylum designs integrated beauty and nature as a solution to treat patients. The Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City, Michigan, used to be one of the vital last of nearly 2 hundred such architecturally intriguing asylums. Founded in 1885 under the main “beauty is therapy,” the Northern Michigan Asylum closed in 1989 and as of late stands as a haunting reminder of this lost era. Angels Within the Architecture is a photographic study of this institution’s one-hundred-year history. Heidi Johnson’s photographs of the building as of late are juxtaposed with rare images from private collections and state archives. Johnson has captured Kirkbride’s spirit of compassion-of angels Within the architecture-in a book that conveys the human section of mental illness with beauty and integrity.

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