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The Gladesville Mental Hospital, formerly known as the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, was a psychiatric hospital established in 1838 in the Sydney suburb of Gladesville. The hospital officially closed in 1993, with the last inpatient services ceasing in 1997.
The main building and site was the first permanent home of the Marist Fathers in Australia, their base for the South Pacific, and their first, purpose-built Procure house. It is integral to the history of the original Gladesville Asylum (later renamed) for over 100 years, and hence the history of psychiatric care in NSW. [1]
Gladesville is a suburb in the Lower North Shore [2] [3] of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Gladesville is located 10 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district , in the local government area of the City of Ryde and the Municipality of Hunter's Hill . [ 4 ]
Yarra Bend Asylum: Demolished: 1848: 1925: 1000+ Fairfield, Melbourne: Ararat Asylum (Aradale Mental Hospital) Closed: 1865: 1993: 2000: Ararat: Collingwood Stockade (Carlton Lunatic Asylum) Demolished: 1866: 1872? Carlton North, Melbourne: Beechworth Asylum (Mayday Hills) Closed: 1867: 1995: 1200 [9] Beechworth: Kew Asylum (Willsmere Mental ...
In 1873 the Colonial Government of New South Wales purchased the Callan Park site, then known as "Callan Estates", with the purpose of building a large lunatic asylum to ease the severe overcrowding at the Gladesville Hospital for the Insane, at Bedlam Point, near Tarban Creek in Gladesville. The new lunatic asylum was designed according to the ...
Mortimer Lewis and his wife Elizabeth Mortimer William Lewis (1796 – 9 March 1879) was an English-born architect, surveyor and public servant who migrated to Australia and became Colonial Architect in the colony of New South Wales (now a state of Australia) from 1835 to 1849. Lewis was responsible for designing and overseeing many government buildings in Sydney and rural New South Wales ...
Frederick Norton Manning (25 February 1839 – 18 June 1903), [1] was a medical practitioner, military surgeon, Inspector General of the Insane for the Colony of New South Wales, and was an Australian Lunatic Asylum Superintendent.
It was originally known as the North Ryde Mental Asylum but has undergone several other name changes from North Ryde Psychiatric Centre to Gladesville-Macquarie Hospital, following an amalgamation of services with Gladesville Mental Hospital.