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The original facility to care for the poor and mentally ill was built in 1855 (no longer extant) and wings were added around 1861. The remaining wing of the first asylum building was moved to its present location in 1888 and used as a hog building after a new residential building had been completed two years prior.
Dorchester in Allamakee County, Iowa, in 1903. Dorchester was platted in 1873. [7] Dorchester's population was 56 in 1902, [8] and 90 in 1925. [9] The population was 102 in 1940. [10] Dorchester's location in the flood plain of the Upper Iowa River makes it vulnerable to
The First Johnson County Asylum is a historic building located on the far west side of Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The first facility Johnson County built to care for paupers and the mentally ill was a four-room cabin in 1855. Two wings were added to the original building six years later.
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Starting in 1932, the Catholic Social Welfare Bureau controlled admission to St. Vincent's, as well as placement of older children leaving the asylum. [2] By 1945 St. Vincent's had admitted 7,315 children and 2,782 mothers, and had a staff of nine sisters. [2] St. Vincent's was closed in 1958, a result of changes at the State Welfare Department.
St. Marys or Saint Marys [2] is a city in Warren County, Iowa, United States. The population was 108 at the time of the 2020 census. [3] St. Marys is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Adam Strasser and Frank Schlecht were contractors from Bellevue, Iowa who were responsible for its construction, as was local stonemason John Weis. The other 19th-century buildings from the poor farm have been removed, and replaced by the county care facility across the highway. This building is now part of a demonstration farm.
The sisters remained in the St. Mary's Convent. In 1975 the St. Mary's school buildings and convent were sold to the diocese for use by the Newman Center. In the early 1990s, an addition was made to Regina High School and the elementary grades were moved from St. Patrick's. The school building had been listed on the National Register of ...