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In the nineteenth century, perhaps no approach to mental illness was more compassionate than that of hospital administrator Thomas Story Kirkbride, whose asylum designs integrated beauty and nature as a method to treat patients. The Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City, Michigan, was one of the last of nearly two hundred such architecturally intriguing asylums. Founded in 1885 under the principle "beauty is therapy", the Northern Michigan Asylum closed in 1989 and today stands as a haunting reminder of this lost era.
Angels in the Architecture is a photographic study of this institution's one-hundred-year history. Heidi Johnson's photographs of the building today are juxtaposed with rare images from private collections and state archives. The photographs are augmented by powerful first-hand accounts of former staff members and patients that reveal both sad realities and surprising acts of kindness.
The book takes readers on a virtual walking tour of a nineteenth-century asylum. Of particular interest is the hospital's Building 50, a four-block-long structure topped by twelve castlelike spires that is now on the National Registry of Historic Places and is also Save America's Treasures candidate.
Kirkbride's architecture conveyed a belief in the healing influence of landscape shared by poets and artists of the nineteenth century. Johnson has captured Kirkbride's spirit of compassion -- of angels in the architecture -- in a book that conveys the human element of mental illness with beauty and integrity.
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Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include
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Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include
[...]
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
0814329500.
Heidi Johnson is both a photographer and writer whose haunting
[...]
0814329500.
Heidi Johnson is both a photographer and writer whose haunting photos and prose capture the essence of the past in the abandoned Traverse City State Hospital story. Original black publisher's covers with bright silver spine and cover lettering. There is a large previous owner sticker (with "property of" hand written on it) on the front pastedown which is partially hidden by the dust jacket flap. Other than that, there are no interior or exterior markings in this clean and tight book. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings..; Great Lakes Books Series; B&W Illustrations; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 1936 pages.
0814329500.
Heidi Johnson is both a photographer and writer whose haunting
[...]
0814329500.
Heidi Johnson is both a photographer and writer whose haunting photos and prose capture the essence of the past in the abandoned Traverse City State Hospital story. Original black publisher's covers with bright silver spine and cover lettering. There is a large previous owner sticker (with "property of" hand written on it) on the front pastedown which is partially hidden by the dust jacket flap. Other than that, there are no interior or exterior markings in this clean and tight book. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings..; Great Lakes Books Series; B&W Illustrations; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 1936 pages.
