THANKS!

First and foremost, thank you Tammi for putting up with my obsession with these old buildings, and sacrificing time to let me fulfill that obsession. I love you.

Thanks to Tim and Ralph and the rest of the Stroyne Family, and Butch Murray, without their generosity kindness, helpfulness, and graciousness, this site would not exist. These are some of the greatest people I've ever met.

Thanks to Steve Holland of www.svtperformance.com  for the server space when I first started out, for teaching me how to use Frontpage, do FTP transfer, and tons of other stuff. His patience knows no end.

Thanks to Mark Berton of IN Community Magazines . A HUGE amount of new content to the site is coming, thanks to Marks generous contribution, and tireless efforts in finding, collecting, and documenting all things Dixmont. Mark literally WROTE THE BOOK on Dixmont, and you can buy it 

HERE

Thanks to Paul and everyone at www.rawfear.com for the limitless supply of information.

Also a very special thanks to WQED television for linking to this site from www.wqed.org,  and for their special on Dixmont on their show OnQ Magazine.

Special thanks to Robert Cammarata, son of Dr. J.A. Cammarata who was supervisor from 1946 to 1965, who graciously shared his memories of living at the facility during his fathers tenure there.

Thanks to Doug Platt, and the Museum of disABILITY history for the information and photos from the PA Dept. of Welfare (1946) report on mental institutions in Pennsylvania..

Thanks to Janice Ackerman of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for her helpful information.

Thanks to Mark Berton of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for his helpful information.

Thanks to Matt Lake, Author of Weird Pennsylvania, for featuring this websites author and photos in his book (page 258!!)

Thanks to Kate Guerriero, for her absolutely WONDERFUL documentary on Dixmont, "Dixmont State Hospital: A Historical Documentary". She was gracious enough to invite me to the premiere at the Heinz History Center. 

Photo Credits

Special thanks to The Stroyne Family for their many historic photos of the facility in its early days.

Thanks to Jay & Amy for the use of the photo of Dixmonts balcony just prior to being dismantled, from their site, www.ohiotrespassers.com

Thanks to Diane Deaton for panoramic view of Reed Hall. This photo is available for purchase along with her other great photography here.

Thanks to Rob Pizzica, and the rest of the guys at 800fairways for their photos of the safe in the basement.

 

Music Credits

Thanks to Coldplay for their song "Trouble", used in the preview video.

Thanks to Joe Satriani for his song "Tears in the Rain", used in the Reed Hall interior video.