Photo Provided The Southeast Ohio History Center in Athens, Ohio, has several activities planned during the month of October at the historic Athens Asylum, including tours and an organ performance.

ATHENS, Ohio — A walking tour of the historic Athens Asylum will be 2-4 p.m. Oct. 12. The tour will meet at 2 p.m. at the Kennedy Museum of Art, in front of the large Kirkbride Building of the Athens ...

Myths abound at the Ridges, a Victorian-era set of buildings atop a hillside in Athens, Ohio, that is the original site of the Athens Asylum. Some people associate the property with ghost stories ...

After years of debate and discussion, the historic Athens Lunatic Asylum could soon be reimagined into a $220 million mixed-use development project under a new plan proposed by Ohio University. Now ...

In an effort to make this article accessible to the Spanish-speaking community of Athens, The Red & Black is printing two articles, one in English and one in Spanish. Special thanks to Juliano ...

In the evening of the 27th of October thousands marched in the center of Athens in protest at the killing of a Pakistani asylum seeker in the hands of the police. In the early morning of Sunday the ...

The imposing cluster of Victorian-era buildings, set atop a hill across from Ohio University’s Athens campus, long has been noted for a colorful past. Now, it appears to have a promising future, as ...

ATHENS, Ohio – Atop a hill just south of town, a sprawling former complex that once housed the Athens Lunatic Asylum is now an art museum, observatory, hiking destination and more. It’s also an ...