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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]
English: Photograph taken in Columbus, Ohio c. 1897. " View looking towards the front facade of the Columbus State Hospital as seen from across the front lawn. Legislation to construct the Ohio Lunatic Asylum on East Broad Street was passed in 1835 and the first stone was laid on April 20, 1837. Construction was completed on November 10, 1839.
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.
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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.
Before the volunteers started the project, the cemetery has become became overgrown and was mostly forgotten, apart from a misspelled sign that read “Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891 ...
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.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbus, Ohio Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.