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25th October 1829, opening of Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, the first solitary confinement system prison in the United States. Designed in the neo gothic style by the English-born architect John Haviland, the building’s gothic religious aesthetics were intended to impose upon the inmates the feel of a church in which their total restriction from others would result in religious penance, piety and fear; with the light in their cells termed the "Eye of God". The architectural style was influenced by the same aesthetics used throughout England in the 1780’s, for asylums and prisons, again with the same quasi religious medievalism in mind. The solitary system at Eastern State lasted until 1913, and the prison closed in 1970, whereupon it sat slowly crumbling, with its memories and ghosts, until it was opened to the public in 1994. Prior to its opening, a prison reform group was formed by Dr. Benjamin Rush in 1787, Rush also is known as the "father of American psychiatry, for his work ‘Observations and Inquiries upon the Diseases of the Mind’, published in 1812. Rush also as recently highlighted, was the inventor of the ‘the tranquilizer chair’ for use in asylums. Another member of the prison reform group was Benjamin Franklin. In 1842 while touring the eastern US, Charles Dickens visited the prison, later commenting "The System is rigid, strict and hopeless solitary confinement, and I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong...." and further "He is a man buried alive; to be dug out in the slow round of years; and in the mean time dead to everything but torturing anxieties and horrible despair." The theme of prisons appears (Continued in the comments) #easternstatepenitentiary #solitaryconfinement #neogothic #neogothicarchitecture #eyeofgod #benjaminfranklin #charlesdickens #macabremonday #macabremondays #mentalasylum #asylum #benjaminrush #historyofmadness #historyofmentalhealth #mentalhealthweek #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #psychiatry #historyofpsychology #historyofpsychiatry #prisonhistory #19thcentury #19thcenturyhistory #madnessart #darkhistory #historicalstory #historytales #historicalplaces #morbidhistory #darktales https://www.instagram.com/p/CVdTUFQFIJp/?utm_medium=tumblr