Shattered in More Ways Than One

At McLean Hospital the architecture of the windows was what attracted me most in one of the oldest and most ornate hospitals in Massachusetts. The hospital was built around the bones of an old Charles Bullfinch mansion in 1811. At the time that McLean was built Massachusetts did not even have a general hospital, let alone a hospital devoted to the treatment of the insane. So McLean was built and its beautiful country club style grounds eventually treated the likes of Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor, and Susannah Kaysen.