PHOTO: HISTORIC SPENCER STATE HOSPITAL 1938 - "A Tortured History"

(04/16/2026)

A 1938 photo taken by Russell Lynch of the Spencer Asylum, later named Spencer State Hospital, once described as the longest building under one roof in eastern USA, had an omnipresence in Roane County, closing in 1989 See SUNNY CAL JOURNAL - Spencer Asylum Has Tortured History

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