Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital

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Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital (also known as Greystone Psychiatric Park, Greystone Psychiatric Hospital, or simply Greystone and formerly known as the State Asylum for the Insane at Morristown, New Jersey State Hospital, Morris Plains, and Morris Plains State Hospital) refers to a former psychiatric hospital and the building it occupied in Morris Plains, New Jersey. The facility was built in 1876 to alleviate overcrowding at the state's only other "lunatic asylum", in Trenton, New Jersey. Built to accommodate 350 patients, the hospital was expanded several times, and at its peak housed more than 7,700 people in overcrowded conditions. In 2008, it was ordered to be closed as a result of deteriorating conditions and overcrowding. A new facility was built nearby on the Greystone campus. Despite considerable public opposition and media attention, demolition of the main Kirkbride building began in April 2015 and was completed by October 2015.

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