UTICA, N.Y. — The Utica Lunatic Asylum was built in 1843 and was New York State's first state-run facility for the mentally ill. The building was known for its Greek revival style architecture ...

I beheld a column of flame leaping heavenward from the cupola of the State Lunatic Asylum! Though two miles away, View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

LOCKPORT, N.Y., July 3.--On the 31st day of May, 1887, there were confined within the walls of the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica 613 patients. I went out there on the street car at 9 o'clock A.M ...

A pregnant woman was smashed in the head with a metal rod by a “disheveled lunatic” in Chelsea on ... under a turnstile to evade the fare at the Utica Avenue station, according to a criminal ...

Ever since Old Main — also known by its official title The New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica — opened in 1843, the well-respected establishment championed the "Moral Treatment of the ...

Several interfaith clergy and religious leaders in the greater Utica area gathered Thursday to encourage the reversal of Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Jr.’s recent ban on asylum ...