Restoring and Reusing Kirkbride’s Mental Health Hospitals

Monica Pellegrino-Faix, executive director, The Richardson Olmsted Complex, Nathaniel C. Guest, Esq., executive director, Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust, and Andrea Janusz, RA, Lord, Aeck & Sargent, discuss the redevelopment efforts at St. Elizabeths, Buffalo State Asylum, and Greystone Park, to illustrate how these sites are inspiring a new understanding of the influence and role of historic preservation of Kirkbride-style mental health hospitals. This program complements the Museum’s exhibition Architecture of an Asylum: St. Elizabeths 1852-2017

$12 Museum Members | $10 Student | $20 Non-member

Tuesday, May 9, 6:30–8 pm