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The historic Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in North Jersey will be preserved
The historic Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in North Jersey, which closed in 2008, will be preserved and turned into parkland, Gov. Christie announced Thursday.
“When the state closes a facility, it has a responsibility to clean up after itself,” Christie said.
Designed a few years after the Civil War by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan, the former hospital is a French Renaissance/Second Empire-style building that features marble pillars, a rotunda and a chapel. Upon its completion, it was christened in 1876 by President Ulysses S. Grant. (DeFalco, Associated Press)
