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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.
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]
It has also been known as the Western State Hospital for the Insane at Bolivar, as the Western State Psychiatric Hospital, and presently operates as the Western Mental Health Institute, serving 24 counties in West Tennessee. [1] [2] [3] Its 1889 building was designed by architect Harry Peake McDonald and his brothers Kenneth and Donald.
Thomas Story Kirkbride, creator of the Kirkbride Plan. The establishment of state mental hospitals in the U.S. is partly due to reformer Dorothea Dix, who testified to the New Jersey legislature in 1844, vividly describing the state's treatment of lunatics; they were being housed in county jails, private homes, and the basements of public buildings.
Timberlake could face up to 180 days in jail and up to a $1,000 fine. He will be sentenced at 9 a.m. March 26.
Roughly bounded by Park, Morton, Hickory, and Wayne Ave.; also roughly bounded by Wayne, Wyoming, Nathan, Oak, Alberta and Blaine: Second set of boundaries represents a boundary increase of June 16, 1988: 97: Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum
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 ...
1918-1939 and 2012-2030 Kent and 783-879 Lyman Sts., 822-1958 Clay Ct., 851-853 Bowman Ave., and Hanford Park 39°57′02″N 82°56′46″W / 39.950556°N 82.946111°W / 39.950556; -82.946111 ( Hanford Village George Washington Carver Addition Historic