Oh, thanks for putting the link up for the Kirkbridge Plan buildings. I'm a student in Cornell's Historic Preservation Planning program (I'm working on getting my masters in saving old buildings) and someone in my program is actively working on saving a Kirkbridge Planned Asylum - somewhere in Pennsylvania.

One of my professor's mentioned that this student was getting a lot of mail about his role in trying to save the building - a lot of hate mail. These buildings are hard to preserve because so many people suffered in them. I know one woman sent him her mother's autopsy that the doctor's at this asylum did on her. It was apparently pretty gruesome and complete with pictures.

So, its nice to see something about people liking and WANTING to save these buildings.