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Facing timelines set up inside the Bush-Lyon Homestead show how the histories of mental illness consideration and the Upper King Street property that housed High Point Hospital contrast.

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Do you remember High Point Hospital?

P.C. Historical Society partners with documentarian to create exhibit about psychiatric institution that once stood where BelleFair is today

A few years after the BelleFair community was developed in 2000, Jodi and Bryan Wolkind moved in. They didn’t realize they were living on the grounds of a largely unknown, yet historical spot in the community—not until an elderly taxi driver told Jodi during a trip home from the Metro-North train station that she resided on the property that formerly housed a psychiatric institution: High Point Hospital.

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