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Kalamazoo State Hospital, Oakland Drive, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MI
Summary
Significance: A mid-nineteenth century mental hospital; a prime example of the Sloan-Kirkbride collaboration which created a specialized architecture for hospitals for the insane. / Date of construction: 1854-1859. Brick. Five parallel pavilions linked together; towers; gabled roofs. Alterations late 19th century. Sloan is credited with 32 hospitals for the insane at his death in 1884, however, only 13 are firmly documented. The Sloan-Kirkbride hospitals are known for their functional requirements and attention to detail. The effects of this creation were widely influential both positively and negatively.
Survey number: HABS MI-251
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
kalamazoo, 42.26842, -85.60942
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
