It's spooky season all year round here in Scotland. Far more beautiful both in backstory and design than some of the other featured homes here, Casa Sperimentale is an abandoned brutalist treehouse in Fergene, Italy, a coastal town outside of. The site had been purchased in 1899 and a deputation of the building committee visited the continent in December 1899 to see asylum buildings there. [Sources: Galashiels Local History Library/R21/31.4; booklet on centenary of the hospital, Dingleton 18721972 ]. The Farm had been the first stage in a project to expand the asylum on modern lines with departments for the different classes of patients. [Sources: Glasgow Herald, 13 Sept. 1935, p.6: T. M. Jeffery, Life and Works of F. T. Pilkington, unpublished thesis, Newcastle School of Architecture.]. He had been appointed as Physician Superintendent to the Royal Edinburgh Asylum in 1873 and in his first Annual Report commented on the state of the buildings: As regards our structural arrangements we are undoubtedly behindhand somewhat. South Craig Villa, Bevan House and the Ladies Hospital had already been occupied for some time. See inside this abandoned Fife children's asylum and the 'haunting The recreation hall, also designed by Blanc, contained a hall measuring 93 feet by 54 feet, with a stage at the north end. Francis Bannerman VI built a huge storing space after buying the American military surplus from the Spanish war. Archaeologists dig. This rendered all the old buildings on the site redundant and since then they have been boarded up and are now on the Buildings at Risk register. The asylum section, situated on the highest part of the estate, is dominated by the Italianate water tower and the buttressed recreation hall. There is a considerable variety of plan and composition which add interest to the site. [Sources:Commissioners in Lunacy,Annual Report, 1865 ]. The foundation stone was laid on 13 June 1900. Nearing the building there are reminders dotted about of the nature of the business of this once grand structure. Archives. The original building was later replaced in 1858 by the much larger buildings that was later repurposed as the hospital outgrew its size limitations. The site of Hawkhead was purchased in c.1889 and eight local architects requested to submit plans for a 400bed asylum, with an administrative section suitable for an extended asylum of 600 hundred beds. It was completed in 1939 as Angus House. Over the decades, the asylum was expanded as it succeeded as an establishment. Haunted Highlands: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Scotland These were split into two main wards with 28 beds and two side rooms with two beds, together with a dayroom and sanitary annexe. People believed this location to be the site of the former Southwestern Insane Asylum. Its foundation was largely due to Susan Carnegie of Charleton who was moved by the plight of lunatics imprisoned in Montrose Tollbooth. Inside the abandoned mansions left to rot after sickening murder at 11,838 people like this 12,271 people follow this Society & culture website Photos See all Videos See all 1:11 Asylums and Hospitals; Replies 9 Views 4K. A villa for children was added in 1900 and in 1939 a new reception house and sanatorium, operating theatre, dental surgery and laboratory were constructed. In 1837 he had published an influential series of lectures on What Asylums Were, Are and Ought to Be. On the coast of Cruden Bay lies the remains of Slain's Castle. Kirklands Asylum was bought by the newly created Glasgow District Board of Lunacy in 1879. (Image: Mavisbank Trust) The hospital claimed to be one of the first to remove its airing courts in 1874. The site of Hawkhead was purchased in c.1889 and eight local architects requested to submit plans for a 400bed asylum, with an administrative section suitable for an extended asylum of 600 hundred beds. People trek into the wilderness, climb mountains, climb trees. Very grim. 9 Abandoned Asylums That Will Make Your Skin Crawl CALDWELL HOUSE, UPLAWMOOR (ruined) Caldwell House, designed byRobert Adam, built 1771-3, was a mansion house in Adams restrained castle style.