The Home in the Mountains

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia.  October 28, 2014.  The title of this deviation is inspired by "Home by the Sea" by Genesis.

From Wikipedia:  Built by architect Richard Andrews, it was constructed from 1858-1881. The hospital's main building is one of the largest hand-cut stone masonry buildings in the United States.  Originally designed to hold 250 people, it became overcrowded in the 1950s with 2,400 patients. 

The first to be committed was a female housekeeper. 

Construction was interrupted by the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. Following its secession from the United States, the government of Virginia demanded the return of the hospital's unused construction funds for its defense; before this could occur, the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry seized the money from a local bank, delivering it to Wheeling, where it was put toward the establishment of the Reorganized Government of Virginia, which sided with the northern states during the war. The Reorganized Government appropriated money to resume construction in 1862; following the admission of West Virginia as a U.S. state in 1863, the hospital was renamed the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane. The first patients were admitted in October 1864, but construction continued into 1881. 

A 1938 report by a survey committee organized by a group of North American medical organizations found that the hospital housed "epileptics, alcoholics, drug addicts and non-educable mental defectives" among its population.

It was forcibly closed in 1994 due to changes in treatment of patients and the construction of a new facility.