The Twisted Story of America's "Model" Institution: Letchworth Village

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Letchworth Village was hailed as a "model institution," a humane alternative to America's asylums, until its own children became the price of that reputation. This is the twisted true story of a Gilded Age dream that helped defeat one of history's most feared diseases.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
1:33 Chapter 1: The Quaker Who Hated Asylums
6:00 Chapter 2: Building the Village
10:46 Chapter 3: The Golden Years
14:44 Chapter 4: Sorting Souls
19:25 Chapter 5: Cracks in the Model
23:47 Chapter 6: The Children Who Could Not Refuse
28:21 Chapter 7: Behind the Fieldstone Walls
32:53 Chapter 8: The Last Great Disgrace
37:24 Chapter 9: The Long Goodbye
41:37 Chapter 10: The Nameless Dead
45:37 Chapter 11: Ruins and Rumors
49:39 Chapter 12: The Price of a Cure

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letchwo...
https://www.letchworthvillageproject....
https://autopsyofarchitecture.com/let...