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The Western State Hospital Complex is a national historic district that encompasses 22 contributing buildings and 4 contributing structures. Notable buildings include the Dairy Barn (1927-1930, 1952), Milk House (1946), Boiler Plant (c. 1895), coal trestle (c. 1899), Wheary Building (1935), Laundry and Personnel Quarters (1865), Male and Female Patient Wards (Building #36, 1875), Byrd Building ...
In 1996, the DeJarnette Center relocated to a new 48-bed facility, adjacent to the grounds of Western State Hospital. [1] In 2001, the facility was renamed the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents following a vote by the State Board of the Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services. [1]
Location of Staunton in Virginia. ... 110 West Hampton, 709 Hall, and 710 Robertson Sts. ... Western State Hospital Complex:
Staunton (/ ˈ s t æ n t ən / STAN-tən) is an independent city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,750. [6] In Virginia, independent cities are separate jurisdictions from the counties that surround them, so the government offices of Augusta County are in Verona, which is contiguous to Staunton. [7]
Following the admission of West Virginia as a U.S. state in 1863, the hospital was renamed the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane. The first patients were admitted in October 1864, but construction continued into 1881. The 200-foot (61 m) [15] central clock tower was completed in 1871, and separate rooms for black people were completed in 1873.
Undercliff State Hospital: Meriden, Connecticut: 1910 Waverly Hills Sanatorium: Jefferson County, Kentucky [22] 1910 Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital: Richmond, Virginia [23] 1911 Firland Sanatorium: Seattle, Washington [24] 1911 Lima Tuberculosis Hospital: Lima, Ohio: 1912 Blackburn Sanitarium: Klamath Falls, Oregon [25] 1912 Pine Bluff State ...
The exhibit "The Evolving History of Central State Hospital 1869-2024" is at the Petersburg Public Library until September 30, 2024.
Joseph Spencer DeJarnette (September 29, 1866 – September 3, 1957) was the director of Western State Hospital (located in Staunton, Virginia) from 1905 to November 15, 1943. [1] He was a vocal proponent of racial segregation and eugenics, specifically, the compulsory sterilization of the mentally ill. [2] [3]