Medfield State Hospital

Medfield State Hospital, originally the Medfield Insane Asylum, is a historic former psychiatric hospital complex at 45 Hospital Road in Medfield, Massachusetts. The asylum was established in 1892 as the state's first facility for dealing with chronic mental patients. The college-like campus was designed by William Pitt Wentworth and developed between 1896 and 1914, after an era dominated by asylums built using the Kirkbride Plan. Medfield Insane Asylum was the first asylum built using the new Cottage Plan layout, where patients were integrated into a small community to work a specific job, rather than being confined to cells. It was formally renamed "Medfield State Hospital" in 1914. The complex included 58 buildings at its height on a property of some 1.4 sq mi (3.6 km2), and a capacity of 2,200 patients. It raised its own livestock and produce, and generated its own heat, light, and power. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, but the property was closed in April 2003 and the buildings were shuttered with the exception of a building at the rear of the campus which was occupied by the State Parole Board until 2006. The grounds have been restored and opened to the public and are open every day from sun up to sundown. It has been used as a filming location for thriller and horror motion pictures such as The New Mutants (2020), Shutter Island (201

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