Sunnyburg Sanitarium

:"Edward would not ask this place to stand; This building is a shrine to his mistakes. Tear it down and salt the cursed land; redeem this family's name, no matter what it takes." - Quote from Louis Sunnyburg's note prior to his disappearance.
Sunnyburg Sanitorium, now known better as the Old Wreck, is a building that was formerly used to house contagious patients and, later, to imprison the mentally ill. Due to its cruelty to neurodivergent patients, it has been shut down.
==Architecture and Geography==
Built on a squat hill, the building is a broad brick hospital with two distinct wings. In its day, it was painted white with a moderately-sized garden outside, but the facade and the garden both fell into disrepair shortly before its abandonment. The inside was once painted mostly a robin's egg blue, but has since flaked away to grimy greys and browns.
The most notable feature is the subterranean tunnel leading from beneath the heart of the sanitarium to the outskirts of the city, once a secret body dumping site for the corrupt sanitarium staff, now an empty crater with the remains having been situated more respectfully elsewhere. The crater is marked the Edward Sunnyburg Lake and it fills with clear water in the rainy season, attracting ducks and migrating geese.
==History and Culture==
Founded by Edward Sunnyburg as his brothers founded the Sunnyburg University facilities, the sanitarium's original purpose was to ensure the comfort, safety and security of residents with contagious conditions or unknown diseases. However, as cases grew less frequent, the building was repurposed as a care facility for vulnerable members of the community, and to help with this new goal Sunnyburg hired more staff.
Despite his best intentions, Sunnyburg's hospital spiralled out of his own control. His desperate attempts to maintain the ethical establishment were unsuccessful, as the staff he'd hired quickly overwhelmed him and turned the once well-meaning hospital into a building to hide away society's most vulnerable members and harm them behind closed doors. Edward Sunnyburg suffered a mental breakdown upon encountering patient Zach Spindle after hours and was removed from his position, allowing further crimes to continue.
Edward, having repressed the incident, un-repressed it following news of Spindle's escape, and blew the whistle at last on the corrupt goings-on, sacrificing his life's work and his reputation to prevent further injustice. Shortly after, Maxwell Sunnyburg would tragically pass away, and upon Louis Sunnyburg erecting a statue of the three brothers, Edward would too come to an unfortunate end: from his wracking guilt over the events in the sanitarium, he attempted to destroy his own face on the statue using a pickaxe, but the statue collapsed onto him, crushing him.
The surviving Sunnyburg brother, Louis, would order the Sanitarium to be destroyed. All surviving patients were relocated to family homes or otherwise far better care, while all staff were tried for the crimes that went on behind the walls. Edward Sunnyburg remains a controversial figure in the area, with many torn between his good intentions and his horrific legacy.
The building is scheduled to be demolished, but amateur ghost hunters and explorers continue to petition against its demolition, arguing its status as a monument to Sunnyburg history and a shrine to Edward Sunnyburg's original dreams of protecting the community. The issue remains a difficult topic, with two brothers dead and the living brother having vanished, presumed dead by now.
==Known Residents==
None. The building is fully abandoned.
==Trivia==
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