The buildings scattered over nearly 1,000 acres of rolling ridges overlooking the Hockhocking River required 18.5 million bricks to build. As Ohio’s fifth psychiatric hospital, it had operating ...

Now known as The Ridges, a plan for the former mental health hospital would include spaces for housing, commercial, academic and recreational uses. The project has been in the works for a while ...

Today, the Ridges exist as a part of Ohio University ... While on the walking tour, guests will learn more about the history of mental health treatment, the asylum, the cemeteries and more as ...

The complex, now known as The Ridges, became part of Ohio ... the Athens State Hospital and, finally, the Athens Mental Health Center, which relocated to the center of town in 1993.