I'll take the park over &**(%$ WalThief any day of the week. At least it would pay its workers.
Great site - I'll be back to browse often. Thanks for saving what may be the last vestiges of these places. At least the future will have some frame of reference when speaking of "state institutions for the insane".

I don't know about Norwich, but the CT prison in Enfield was doing all their own baking as recently as the70's. (No, I wasn't a "guest" there - just a visiting JayCee.)