{"nrhp_refnum":"96000814","name":"New York State Inebriate Asylum","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"425 Robinson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Binghamton","county":"Broome County","state":"NY","lat":42.106453158500045,"lon":-75.86578187027078,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-07-24","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1997-12-09","areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Health/Medicine","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A massive Gothic Revival limestone institutional building at 425 Robinson Street in Binghamton, Broome County, New York, built between 1857 and 1866 to designs by architect Isaac G. Perry. It now sits at the center of the Binghamton Psychiatric Center campus.","why_significant":"It was the first hospital in the United States designed and built to treat alcoholism as a disease. Its original design followed the Kirkbride plan, which separated patients by gender and type and severity of illness. It also reflects the temperance and reform movements of the nineteenth century.","narrative":"Perched on a hilltop plateau above the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers, this castellated Gothic Revival asylum in Binghamton was designed by Isaac G. Perry and built between 1857 and 1866. It was the first hospital in the United States designed and built to treat alcoholism as a disease, an idea that grew out of the nineteenth-century temperance movement. The three-story limestone building is 365 feet long and has towers, turrets and buttresses. Its symmetrical plan follows the Kirkbride model, with a central administrative core flanked by long patient wings divided by gender and severity of illness. The institution became a state hospital for the insane in 1879, and fires, renovations and the demolition of its rear service wing in 1986 changed parts of the structure. The main block remains largely intact and recognizable as a Kirkbride asylum. The building closed in 1993 after a parapet collapse and is vacant.","period_of_significance":"c. 1858 - c. 1879","architect_builder":"Perry, Isaac G.","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant. The building was closed in 1993 after part of the south transept parapet on the west facade collapsed; the upper facade was later secured and parged with concrete.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.079785-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96000814_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000814/7e73f4f177-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000814/7e73f4f177-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Henry Kollock, editor","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Binginebriateasylum.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry Kollock, editor</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Binginebriateasylum.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315653","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Inebriate_Asylum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7014128"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/broome-county/new-york-state-inebriate-asylum-96000814/"}