The Building Keeps the Score: Toward Asylum-Occupancy and a More Purposeful Haunting of Buffalo’s Psychiatric Spaces
The following is an essay written by Jessica Lowell Mason, originally published in SUNY Buffalo Romance Studies Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 2, December 2020, reprinted here for greater readerly access in the hopes that those who are designing the Richardson Hotel, which will replace the former Hotel Henry, will proceed with greater sensitivity to the history attached to the building in which their hotel will operate. If this subject interests you, the following article may also be of interest to you: “Hotel Henry and the Line Between Restoration and Trivialization.”
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