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The building was completely destroyed by fire on November 18,1868. Governor Rutherford B. Hayes presided over the cornerstone laying ceremonies for the new Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, relocated to West Broad Street, on July 4, 1870. In 1874, the institution's name was changed to the Central Ohio Hospital for the Insane.
Columbus State Hospital, also known as Ohio State Hospital for Insane, was a public psychiatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1838 and rebuilt in 1877. [1] The hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan. [2] The building was said to have been the largest in the U.S. or the world, until the Pentagon was completed in 1943. [3] [4]
The Athens Lunatic Asylum, now a mixed-use development known as The Ridges, [2] was a Kirkbride Plan mental hospital operated in Athens, Ohio, from 1874 until 1993. During its operation, the hospital provided services to a variety of patients including Civil War veterans, children, and those declared mentally unwell.
Stereoscopes gave Victorian viewers a glimpse of three-dimensional photos. An online stereograph collection includes unique views of old Cincinnati. 1800s Cincinnati comes to life in this ...
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.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum: Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum. April 24, 1986 : 1960 W. Broad St
For a century, it was known as the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, the state's largest mental institution. According to The New York Times , it once housed as many as 3,000 patients.
The Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum is an historic structure at 2335 Wayne Ave. in Dayton, Ohio. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1979. The 300-acre (120 ha) complex was designed as a mental asylum in accordance with principles advocated by Philadelphia psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride in the mid-19th ...