1 Comments Posted by whokilledblanchelefferts?

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What you have to keep in mind about PSH is that back in the 1950s and 1960s, when most of the surrounding architecture was brand new development homes, this was the biggest architectural feature of western Suffolk, looming over the landscape for miles.
It was spooky at night and especially at Halloween, but rather than eerie, it was appallingly dreary -- you could sense all the unwell (and desperately unhappy) people who had ever been there.
And a mental institution should NEVER be designed to look like a fortress prison. Especially one named for a Pilgrim, someone journeying to a holy place. (Besides, Pilgrims are Mass., not NY social myths.)
Just look at the enlightened "therapies" they performed. You're not officially allowed to do any of that to a prisoner of war nowadays.
Like so many of its companion "hospitals" in Suffolk, it deserves to be closed, and razed.
Maybe something healthy and good can grow there now.