The London, Ontario Psychiatric Hospital is on the market.

     Infrastructure Ontario is selling one of its "ghost buildings" for $694,000 dollars. The hospital is a Registered Heritage Building, but apparently that means nothing.
Heritage Value
The London Psychiatric Hospital, established as the London Asylum for the Insane between 1869 and 1870, is an impressive symbol of the innovative and humane programs encouraged by the Hospital's two supervisors, Henry Landor and Richard Maurice Bucke. (The top 3 photos were taken in 2017.)

The London Infirmary, 850 Highbury Avenue, London. 

The Chapel of Hope, London Psychiatric Hospital. 

The 162 acre landscape is similar to the Kingston Provincial Campus, which Infrastructure Ontario plans to sell. Rockwood Asylum is located on the Provincial Campus.

LPH photo is from a real estate website.

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Dr. Richard M. Bucke was a world famous psychiatrist and mystic, he wrote the following books:

Cosmic Consciousness-A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind.

The Cosmic Consciousness of Walt Whitman.

Man's Moral Nature - an essay.

The Cosmic Consciousness of Jesus the Christ.

The Cosmic Consciousness of Honore De Balzac.

The Cosmic Consciousness of Francis Bacon.

The Cosmic Consciousness of St. Paul.

Infrastructure Ontario does not care about the fact that Dr. Bucke was a pioneering psychiatrist; that hospital patients built the Chapel of Hope; that the Infirmary was a Victorian building; that the City of London, Ontario thought the buildings were historic.

Just as they don't care about the fact that Penitentiary inmates built the Rockwood Asylum; that the hospital was constructed with limestone and could last for a thousand years; that the hospital was a registered heritage property, according to municipal and provincial records; that William Coverdale designed Rockwood and many of the most historic buildings in Canada:

Kingston Ontario landmarks designed by William Coverdale
St. Helen's Complex
Sydenham Street United Church
Roselawn National Historic Site of Canada
St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church.
Kingston Penitentiary (where Willam Coverdale was also a master carpenter.)
Portsmouth Community Correctional Centre
Prince George Hotel
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The Canada Lands Company was involved in the divestiture of St. Helen's Complex in 2015:
Federal Notice of Surplus 440-442 King Street West, Kingston
     "The sale of the property to any public or private purchaser would be subject to the negotiation of a purchase price approved by the Canada Lands Company..." (Google: Report COU-15-213 City of Kingston).