We're all Mad Here - The Asylum Grounds - pt,3

This is a small post detailing the outside of one of my explores in the URBEX realm. Someone had posted a few pics from the inside of the main hospital building and I figured I'd finally go to check the place out. The place was built around 1868-70 with around $100,000 from the provincial legislature. Initially, 300 acres of land were purchased and an additional 100 acres were purchased at a later date. There are a multitude of buildings still on the property. Initially called the London Asylum for the Insane, it was then later renamed to the Ontario Hospital for the Mentally Ill and eventually the London Psychiatric Hospital until it was closed down.

Read more about the institution here.

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^{The Old Facade}

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^{Facade detail}

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^{The East Wing}

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^{Sumacs growing outside East wing}

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^{The grounds - overview}

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There was also a chapel constructed on the grounds. I guess people were married there. I never got inside. Will have to see if I could one day, it's apparently nice inside. Nice being a relative term.

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^{The Chapel of Love}

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^{The Chapel of Love - Rear Graffiti}

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^{The Chapel of Love - Side Door Detail}

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^{The Chapel of Love - Side Door Detail 2}

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^{The Chapel of Love - Side Detail}

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^{The Chapel of Love - Vines and Foliage}

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^{The Chapel of Love - with modern hospital in background}

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^{Other visitors - Canada Goose}

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^{We hath departed}

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^{View the first part here on PeakD
View the second part here on PeakD}

More to come at a later date - if my (in)sanity prevails