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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.
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 ...
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 ]
Daniel, who was in his 20s, was among those killed in the Tulsa Race Massacre, his family says.. More than 100 years later, the city of Tulsa honored Daniel at a memorial service last week after ...
CityPlex Towers, originally known as City of Faith Medical and Research in Tulsa, Oklahoma There are three triangular towers with over 2,200,000 square feet (200,000 m 2 ) of office space. [2] The tallest is the 60-story CityPlex Tower which at 648 feet (198 m) is the third tallest building in Oklahoma (after Devon Tower and BOK Tower ).
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]
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The Gillette-Tyrrell Building is a building in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.It was begun in 1929 by two Tulsa oilmen, J. M. Gillette [a] and H. C. Tyrrell. They initially planned to construct a three-story office building at 432 S. Boulder Avenue, topped by a ten-story hotel, but these plans were canceled during the Great Depression and they stopped construction at the third floor.