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Where thousands once lived and worked at Hudson River Psychiatric Center, stately red-brick buildings stand forlorn - apparitions from another age yearning to be freed from their purgatory overlooking the Hudson River.
But after seven years of vacancy, the center's former main campus off Route 9 may find new life in the not-too-distant future with the development of a community of homes and businesses that could be one of the largest such projects in Dutchess County's history. While the proposed Hudson Heritage Park has sparked broad interest from residents and community leaders, concerns also have been raised about the size of the proposed $250 million project and its potential impact on traffic, schools and municipal services.
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"The Architecture of Madness : Insane Asylums in the United States" includes a nice amount of information & photographs about Hudson River State Hospital - not to mention all the other institutions it covers - below is what Amazon had to say about the book.
In The Architecture of Madness, Carla Yanni tells a compelling story of therapeutic design, from America’s earliest purpose—built institutions for the insane to the asylum construction frenzy in the second half of the century. At the center of Yanni’s inquiry is Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, a Pennsylvania-born Quaker, who in the 1840s devised a novel way to house the mentally diseased that emphasized segregation by severity of illness, ease of treatment and surveillance, and ventilation. After the Civil War, American architects designed Kirkbride-plan hospitals across the country.
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The Town of Poughkeepsie has stumbled through the process of getting its land-use regulations updated, but under new Supervisor Patricia Myers, it is making headway.
While officials want to steer more growth into town centers and better protect some of the outlying areas, they have to realize needless delays could take their toll on good development ventures that have been in the planning stages for years.
Nowhere is that more true than at the old Hudson River Psychiatric Center grounds off Route 9. There, developers want to convert the main campus of the former center into hundreds of housing units, a small hotel and a business center. The site includes a Victorian-era administration building that has been vacant for decades, as well as dozens of other structures. It took about seven years for the developers – Hudson Heritage CPCR Ventures – to get through the bureaucratic maze before they were able to buy the buildings and about 156 acres from the state. The new owners paid $2.75 million and expect to spend from $150 million to $200 million to renovate the buildings and groom the grounds.
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Developers in the Town of Poughkeepsie can proceed with rezoning applications, but environmental reviews on residential projects of 11 lots or more will likely stop at least until mid-June.
The town board Wednesday night made adjustments to its residential building moratorium, approved last year and recently extended until June. The board's action was good news for developers of the former Hudson River Psychiatric Center site.
Another company that wants to construct 468 homes at the Casperkill Golf Club property may not be as happy.
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