Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland County, SC
Summary
Significance: This institution was the first to give recognition to the fact that mental illness could be treated. Patients were placed in pleasant surroundings for treatment not kept as prisoners or animals. Robert Mills considered this is his design.
Survey number: HABS SC-253
Building/structure dates: 1827 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1838 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1842 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1848 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Mills, Robert
Location
columbia, 34.01194, -81.04322
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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