Original Greystone Site

Built: 1876
Located: Morris Plains, NJ
Main Architect: Samuel Sloan (also built Camden County Court House)
Designer: Thomas Kirkbride
Amount People it was meant for: 350
Highest Population: 7,700 people
Closed with the population of: 550 people
Notable "Immates": Woody Gurthie a folk singer was in Greystone due to Huntington's Disease
                                     Harrison Noel a double murderer
Other Names: State Asylum For The Insane At Morristown New Jersey
Closed: 2008
Demolished: April 2015-October 2015

Greystone had a "state of the art" electroconvlusive therapy (also known as electroshock therapy) in the main building.  The institution also had hydrotherapy in the women's ward.  Medical Director Britton D. Evans stated that it "was well recognized that the application of water at varying degrees of temperature and pressure exerts influence of valuable therapeutic character upon the entire human economy and aids the recuperative powers of the body (1906)."  Hydrotherapy for the men was open the following year.  Greystone set aside a ward for World War I veterans who were deemed "War Risk Patients".  These patients were suffering from what we call post-traumatic stress disorder.

National Suicide Hotline
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Weird NJ
http://weirdnj.com/stories/greystone-park-psychiatric-hospital/

Patient Abuse
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/greystone_park_psychiatric_hos.html
http://weirdnj.com/stories/greystone-park-psychiatric-hospital/

Haunting Photos of Decay
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2601383/Haunting-pictures-decay-abandoned-asylum-held-7-000-Americas-disturbed-patients.html

Violence on the Rise at the new Greystone Facility
http://www.nj.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2017/08/njs_largest_psych_hospital_is_overcrowded_and_unsa.html

Fewer Doctors patient population on the rise
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/06/at_njs_largest_public_psych_hospital_more_patients.html