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The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
Agnews Insane Asylum, U.S. National Park Service; New Campus, New Home, [permanent dead link ] a video on the construction of the Sun Microsystems campus and preservation of the Agnews buildings; Agnews Historical Cemetery at Find a Grave "Historical American Buildings Survey: Agnews State Hospital" (PDF). Library of Congress. National Park ...
LaFortune was elected Mayor of Tulsa in 1970, and sworn in on May 5, 1970. [5] As mayor, he got passage of bond issues for the city's freeway system, [1] as well as the Williams Center and Tulsa Performing Arts Center in downtown Tulsa. [6] He also helped initiate the start of the Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG). [7]
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In spring 1984, Skinner became a government informant by calling the Tulsa FBI field office. He told the agent who responded that he had made a deal with a con artist in Texas, Sam Merit; he told Merit he was the heir to Gardner Springs Company, and offered to loan Merit $300,000 to invest in a Caribbean charter airline and build a fake gold mine in Arizona.
1922: G. Way House, Northeast corner of E. 31st Street and S. Peoria Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma (The house was significantly altered in 1983, leaving little of the original design intact) [1] 1923: Adah Robinson Studio , 1119 S. Owasso Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma [ 1 ]
The Tulsa Theater (formerly known as the Brady Theater, Tulsa Municipal Theater, and Tulsa Convention Hall [4]) is a theater and convention hall located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was originally completed in 1914 and remodeled in 1930 and 1952. The building was used as a detention center during the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. [5]
Wyoming State Insane Asylum in Evanston, Wyoming. Asylum architecture in the United States, including the architecture of psychiatric hospitals, affected the changing methods of treating the mentally ill in the nineteenth century: the architecture was considered part of the cure. Doctors believed that ninety percent of insanity cases were ...