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Discover the untold history of Utica’s Old Main in a new documentary, offering rare insight into one of America’s oldest asylums and its groundbreaking contributions to mental health.

The legendary mental hospital in Utica known as "Old Main" will once again open it's doors for the public to view. This historic building was built in 1843 and operated as a mental facility for many years and is as eerie as it is interesting.

A building being demolished at the Utica Psychiatric Center West Utica, gives a glimpse inside one of the many shuttered structures on the campus.

Looming over West Utica since 1843, the Utica State Lunatic Asylum was once on the forefront of the progressive care of the mentally ill as New York's first center for their care. Closed now for decades, the main building of the Utica Psychatric Center, known as Old Main, has captivated those who live in its shadow and hear stories of its Haunts and Legends.

Following a wildly popular one-night-only tour of Old Main on the campus of the Utica Psychiatric Center in the summer of 2014, the New York Office of Mental Health is setting several tour dates for spring and summer 2015.

Famed horror and mystery author Edgar Allen Poe was nearly committed to the Utica Psychiatric Hospital during a bout of depression in the 1840s.

The Old Main Psychiatric Center Hospital opened its doors to a public tour on Monday, August 25th at 5PM offering a crowd of more than 4 thousand an exclusive glimpse inside the historic iconic Utica landmark.

As the building referred to as ‘Old Main’ is being opened to the public for a limited time this Monday, it is interesting to take a look back at this historic building, and pay attention to the events, and hauntings, that took place there.

Old Main at the Utica Psychiatric Center has been a local topic of conversation once the news was released that the building would open on August 25, 2014 for a public tour. A photo from inside Old Main has also garnered national attention online.

The Central New York community gets an exceptionally rare opportunity on August 25, 2014 as Old Main, the large building on the Utica Psychiatric Center complex opens to the public for a tour.

There are few buildings more iconic and more forbidden in Utica than Old Main, the gated-off main building of the Utica Psychiatric Center. And for one exceptionally rare evening, the building opened to the public.