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Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental & Nervous Diseases, Forty-fourth & Market Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Summary
Significance: Pioneer example of mental-hospital architecture using extended wings to permit maximum isolation of wards. Popularly named for Dr. Thomas S. Kirkbride, hospital superintendent 1841-83 and formulator of advanced methods for treating the mentally ill.
Survey number: HABS PA-1636
Building/structure dates: 1836-1840 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1846-1847 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1849 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1872-1880 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1959 Demolished
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Holden, Isaac
Sloan, Samuel
Kirkbride, Thomas D
Webster, Richard J, historian
Dillon, Theodore F, photographer
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 39.95623, -75.19487
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
