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Institute for the feeble-minded, Lincoln, Ill

Institute for the feeble-minded, Lincoln, Ill

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "104" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05979. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washington, D.C. Grandstand. Plan, front and side elevations]

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washi...

Proposed grandstand for baseball grounds. No. 122 in pencil on back. No. 2245. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ; 2010 ; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF ... More

Bellevue Hospital, 28th St., New York City. View to administration to pavilion from seventh-floor outpatient building

Bellevue Hospital, 28th St., New York City. View to administration to ...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Neuropsychiatric Building, Virginia Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks Division
1 Jefferson Barracks Drive, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Neuropsychiatric Building,...

Significance: It was built in 1929 as an early addition to the U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks. The building was the site of the hospital's psychiatric program during the time when the hospital was a... More

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Cherokee, Cherokee County, IA

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Che...

Significance: This hospital was the last of the four state mental hospitals to be built in Iowa and the only one where the main building, a connected complex in echelon plan, was fully completed before the hosp... More

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Cherokee, Cherokee County, IA

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Che...

Significance: This hospital was the last of the four state mental hospitals to be built in Iowa and the only one where the main building, a connected complex in echelon plan, was fully completed before the hosp... More

The Republican Party going to the right House

The Republican Party going to the right House

Abraham Lincoln's supporters are portrayed as radicals and eccentrics of various stripes. The satire is loosely based on an anti-Fremont cartoon from the previous presidential race, "The Great Republican Reform... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, M Building, 654-674 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, M Building, 654-674 Redwood Street, Southeast...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The M Building (Building 72) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, I Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, I Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

Survey number: HABS DC-349-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79003101

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Center Building, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Center Building, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southea...

For an overview of the Center Building Group, see HABS DC-349-BT Significance: The Center Building (Buildings 1 and 2) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness at the St. Elizabet... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Center Building, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Center Building, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southea...

For an overview of the Center Building Group, see HABS DC-349-BT Significance: The Center Building (Buildings 1 and 2) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness at the St. Elizabet... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building No. 21, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building...

Overview documentation in HABS No. IN-306. Additional individual structure documentation in HABS No. IN-306-A through HABS No. IN-306-AR. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Building No. 21 is one... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SE, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue S...

Significance: According to the 1884 Annual Report for St. Elizabeths Hospital, "the new barn, a building 120 x 60 feet, with foundations and basement of brick and superstructure of wood, now drawing towards com... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SE, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue S...

Significance: According to the 1884 Annual Report for St. Elizabeths Hospital, "the new barn, a building 120 x 60 feet, with foundations and basement of brick and superstructure of wood, now drawing towards com... More

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Virginia Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks Division
1 Jefferson Barracks Drive, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Virginia Medical Center, J...

Significance: It is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A for health and medicine. The original portion of the complex was constructed by the newly established U.S. Veterans Bu... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, B Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, B Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The B Building (Building 75) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Admissions Building, Virginia Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks Division
1 Jefferson Barracks Drive, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Admissions Building, Virgi...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Admissions Building, Virginia Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks Division
1 Jefferson Barracks Drive, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Admissions Building, Virgi...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Iowa Hospital for the Insane, State Route 248, Independence, Buchanan County, IA

Iowa Hospital for the Insane, State Route 248, Independence, Buchanan ...

Significance: The building was the second state mental hospital built in Iowa, and it followed functional design criteria essentially the same as those used at the first one, the construction of which had been ... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Garfield, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Garfield, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southeast, Was...

For an overview of the Center Building Group, see HABS DC-349-BT Significance: Garfield (Building 5) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness at the St. Elizabeths campus. As part... More

Washington arsenal, Insane Asylum in the distance

Washington arsenal, Insane Asylum in the distance

View across the Potomac toward the arsenal, ships at anchor. Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: the arsenal stands on a point running out into the river at the junc... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 588-604 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. A...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hitchcock Hall is significant for its association with the daily life of patients and staff on the St. Elizabeths campus... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 578-586 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hagan Hall (Building 38) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths C... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 578-586 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hagan Hall (Building 38) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths C... More

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washington, D.C. Stable interior with horse in stall]

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washi...

Subject and date suggested by provenance, and by similarities to item number 2007.2.3. Sheet no. 5. No. 339B in pencil on back. No. 2212. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Founda... More

Insane Asylum, Jacksonville, Ill

Insane Asylum, Jacksonville, Ill

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "109" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05982. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. Building No. 18 (Burroughs Cottage). Front elevation with dimensions] / H. L. Amer, Draughtsman.

[Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. Building No. 18 (Burrough...

No. 474 in pencil ; No. 249 in pencil on back. No. 2178. This structure is also widely documented as Burrows Cottage. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ; 2010 ; (DLC/P... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Relief, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast 518-542 Redwood Drive, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Relief, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, S...

For an overview of the Detached Group, see HABS DC-349-BX Significance: Relief (Building 32) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As one of the l... More

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Cherokee, Cherokee County, IA

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Che...

Significance: This hospital was the last of the four state mental hospitals to be built in Iowa and the only one where the main building, a connected complex in echelon plan, was fully completed before the hosp... More

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Cherokee, Cherokee County, IA

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Che...

Significance: This hospital was the last of the four state mental hospitals to be built in Iowa and the only one where the main building, a connected complex in echelon plan, was fully completed before the hosp... More

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Cherokee, Cherokee County, IA

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Che...

Significance: This hospital was the last of the four state mental hospitals to be built in Iowa and the only one where the main building, a connected complex in echelon plan, was fully completed before the hosp... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, C Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, C Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The C Building (Building 73) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More

The Republican Party going to the right House

The Republican Party going to the right House

Abraham Lincoln's supporters are portrayed as radicals and eccentrics of various stripes. The satire is loosely based on an anti-Fremont cartoon from the previous presidential race, "The Great Republican Reform... More

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York C...

Significance: The Psychopathic Ward was added to the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station hospital complex in 1906-07. The rest of the general hospital on Island 2 was built between 1901 and 1909. Adding th... More

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York C...

Significance: The Psychopathic Ward was added to the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station hospital complex in 1906-07. The rest of the general hospital on Island 2 was built between 1901 and 1909. Adding th... More

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Spinal Cord Injury Unit and Tuberculosis Neuropsychiatric Building, Virginia Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks Division
1 Jefferson Barracks Drive, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Spinal Cord Injury Unit an...

Significance: It represents the 1950s conversion of the Jefferson Barracks VA Hospital campus into a facility specializing in psychiatric services. The interior layout was also influenced by the theories of Dr.... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building No. 21, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building...

Overview documentation in HABS No. IN-306. Additional individual structure documentation in HABS No. IN-306-A through HABS No. IN-306-AR. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Building No. 21 is one... More

Arizona State Home for Insane, Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, CA

Arizona State Home for Insane, Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, CA

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Boiler House / Ice Plant, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Ash Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Boiler House / Ice Plant, 2700 Martin Luther ...

For an overview of the Systems and Infrastructure Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CD Significance: The Boiler House/Ice Plant (Building 52) functioned as the boiler plant, providing steam for heat to the campus buil... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Atkins Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 518-542 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Atkins Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Aven...

For an overview of the Detached Group, see HABS DC-349-BX Significance: Atkins Hall (Building 31) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths campus. Atkins Hal... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building No. 22, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building...

Overview documentation in HABS No. IN-306. Additional individual building documentation in HABS No. IN-306-A through HABS No. IN-306-AR. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Building No. 22 is one o... More

Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland Count...

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. R... More

Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland Count...

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. R... More

Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland Count...

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. R... More

Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland Count...

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. R... More

Taunton State Hospital, Danforth Street, Taunton, Bristol County, MA

Taunton State Hospital, Danforth Street, Taunton, Bristol County, MA

Significance: As the second insane asylum in Massachusetts, the Taunton State Hospital represents a superb example of the mid-19th century Classical Revival design and a turning point in the care of the mentall... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 588-604 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. A...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hitchcock Hall is significant for its association with the daily life of patients and staff on the St. Elizabeths campus... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 588-604 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. A...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hitchcock Hall is significant for its association with the daily life of patients and staff on the St. Elizabeths campus... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 588-604 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. A...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hitchcock Hall is significant for its association with the daily life of patients and staff on the St. Elizabeths campus... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 578-586 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hagan Hall (Building 38) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths C... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue S...

Significance: The stable at St. Elizabeths Hospital was built in 1901 as part of the major expansion of hospital facilities undertaken by superintendent Alonzo Richardson. Designed by the prominent Boston archi... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue S...

Significance: The stable at St. Elizabeths Hospital was built in 1901 as part of the major expansion of hospital facilities undertaken by superintendent Alonzo Richardson. Designed by the prominent Boston archi... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue S...

Significance: The stable at St. Elizabeths Hospital was built in 1901 as part of the major expansion of hospital facilities undertaken by superintendent Alonzo Richardson. Designed by the prominent Boston archi... More

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washington, D.C. Boiler house. Heating boiler, ventilating fan, bathroom, and water closet. Plans, elevations, and sections] / Tho. U. Walter Archt.

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washi...

Sheet no. 4. No. 301 in pencil on back. No. 2175. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ; 2010 ; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congre... More

Bellevue Hospital, 28th St., New York City. Street view I

Bellevue Hospital, 28th St., New York City. Street view I

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washington, D.C. Dix Building South. Third floor plan, space assignment ]

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washi...

Ward 6, Richardson Division. Title block of U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Sheet no. not given. No. 2220. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ; 2010 ;... More

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Neuropsychiatric Hospital Disturbed Building, Virginia Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks Division
1 Jefferson Barracks Drive, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Neuropsychiatric Hospital ...

Significance: It was part of an early 1950s effort to expand the U.S. Veterans hospital, Jefferson Barracks, to accommodate veterans of WWII and Korean War. The building also represents the early 1950s establis... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, C Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, C Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The C Building (Building 73) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York C...

Significance: The Psychopathic Ward was added to the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station hospital complex in 1906-07. The rest of the general hospital on Island 2 was built between 1901 and 1909. Adding th... More

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York C...

Significance: The Psychopathic Ward was added to the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station hospital complex in 1906-07. The rest of the general hospital on Island 2 was built between 1901 and 1909. Adding th... More

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York C...

Significance: The Psychopathic Ward was added to the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station hospital complex in 1906-07. The rest of the general hospital on Island 2 was built between 1901 and 1909. Adding th... More

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, Psychopathic Ward, New York Harbor, New York, New York C...

Significance: The Psychopathic Ward was added to the Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station hospital complex in 1906-07. The rest of the general hospital on Island 2 was built between 1901 and 1909. Adding th... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, M Building, 654-674 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, M Building, 654-674 Redwood Street, Southeast...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The M Building (Building 72) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, K Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, K Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The K Building (Building 66) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Storeroom, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Birch Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Storeroom, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue...

For an overview of the Food Service Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CB Significance: The Old Storeroom (Building 44) was constructed as a storage facility to supplement the General Kitchen (Building 45) and Bakery (... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, 1700 Eas...

See also individual structures documented as HABS No. IN-306-A through HABS No. IN-306-AR. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Marion Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, 1700 Eas...

See also individual structures documented as HABS No. IN-306-A through HABS No. IN-306-AR. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Marion Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, N Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, N Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

Survey number: HABS DC-349-H National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79003101

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building No. 21, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building...

Overview documentation in HABS No. IN-306. Additional individual structure documentation in HABS No. IN-306-A through HABS No. IN-306-AR. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Building No. 21 is one... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, P Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, P Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

Survey number: HABS DC-349-I National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79003101

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SE, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue S...

Significance: According to the 1884 Annual Report for St. Elizabeths Hospital, "the new barn, a building 120 x 60 feet, with foundations and basement of brick and superstructure of wood, now drawing towards com... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, B Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, B Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The B Building (Building 75) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More

Iowa Insane Hospital, U.S. Route 218, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, IA

Iowa Insane Hospital, U.S. Route 218, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, IA

Significance: The Iowa Insane Hospital was an example of a state-owned mental hospital designed in a decade when the first great advances in the humane care and treatment of the insane had been made by the medi... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Pine, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Pine, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southeast, Washing...

For an overview of the Center Building Group, see HABS DC-349-BT Significance: Pine (Building 6) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness at the St. Elizabeths campus. As part of ... More

Ward B-3, 45-720 Keaahala Road, Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI

Ward B-3, 45-720 Keaahala Road, Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI

Significance: It is significant as a contributing building within the Territorial Hospital Historic District for its architecture and associations with the history of the treatment of the mentally ill in Hawaii... More

Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Lunatic Asylum, Bull Street & Elmwood Avenue, Columbia, Richland Count...

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. R... More

Taunton State Hospital, Danforth Street, Taunton, Bristol County, MA

Taunton State Hospital, Danforth Street, Taunton, Bristol County, MA

Significance: As the second insane asylum in Massachusetts, the Taunton State Hospital represents a superb example of the mid-19th century Classical Revival design and a turning point in the care of the mentall... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 588-604 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. A...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hitchcock Hall is significant for its association with the daily life of patients and staff on the St. Elizabeths campus... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 588-604 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. A...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hitchcock Hall is significant for its association with the daily life of patients and staff on the St. Elizabeths campus... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 578-586 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hagan Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Culture and Recreation Buildings, see HABS DC-349-CA Significance: Hagan Hall (Building 38) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths C... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Stable, 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue S...

Significance: The stable at St. Elizabeths Hospital was built in 1901 as part of the major expansion of hospital facilities undertaken by superintendent Alonzo Richardson. Designed by the prominent Boston archi... More

[Mental hospital, Philadelphiadelphia, Pennsylvania]

[Mental hospital, Philadelphiadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Distant view of building with dome and columned portico; people standing at the entrance. "Insane [...] Penn Hospital, West Phila[...]" written in pencil on slide label. "Published by Langenheim & Co., Philadel... More

Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy and the District of Columbia

Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy and the District of Colum...

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 134. Notation: R. McClelland, Secretary; Franklin Pierce. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 2. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washington, D.C. Dining hall. Elevations and sections]

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washi...

Building No. 33 (?), and key number 27 on some site plans. Sheet no. 34. No. [34]D in pencil ; No. 243 in pencil on back. No. 2242. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ;... More

Institute for the feeble-minded, Lincoln, Ill.

Institute for the feeble-minded, Lincoln, Ill.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a public building, auditorium, hall, commons, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Caricature, A sad case / Dalrymple., public domain cartoon image

Caricature, A sad case / Dalrymple., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows Puck massaging the scalp of a deranged-looking Richard Olney who is sitting on a bench in a padded cell in the "Hopeless ward for incurables" and holding a rattle of William Jennings Bryan as... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building No. 24, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building...

See HABS No. IN-306 for overview documentation. Additional individual building documentation in HABS No. IN-306-A through HABS No. IN-306-AR. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Building No. 24 was... More

Bryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's oldest and largest inpatient psychiatric facility

Bryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's ol...

First known as the Alabama State Hospital for the Insane and later as the Alabama Insane Hospital, the building is considered an architectural model. The facility was planned from the start to utilize the "mora... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Allison Group, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Allison Group, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Av...

For documentation of the individual buildings in the Allison Group, see also: Allison A (HABS DC-349-AN), Allison B (HABS DC-349-AO), Allison C (HABS DC-349-AM), and Allison D (HABS DC-349-AL). Significance: Th... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, C Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, C Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The C Building (Building 73) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, C Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, C Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The C Building (Building 73) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, C Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, C Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

For an overview of the Lettered Buildings, see HABS DC-349-BY Significance: The C Building (Building 73) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths Campus. As ... More

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Spinal Cord Injury Unit and Tuberculosis Neuropsychiatric Building, Virginia Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks Division
1 Jefferson Barracks Drive, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Spinal Cord Injury Unit an...

Significance: It represents the 1950s conversion of the Jefferson Barracks VA Hospital campus into a facility specializing in psychiatric services. The interior layout was also influenced by the theories of Dr.... More

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Spinal Cord Injury Unit and Tuberculosis Neuropsychiatric Building, Virginia Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks Division
1 Jefferson Barracks Drive, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Spinal Cord Injury Unit an...

Significance: It represents the 1950s conversion of the Jefferson Barracks VA Hospital campus into a facility specializing in psychiatric services. The interior layout was also influenced by the theories of Dr.... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, I Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, I Building, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

Survey number: HABS DC-349-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 79003101

St. Elizabeths Hospital West Campus, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital West Campus, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenu...

Significance: Advocated for as early as the 1830s and initially developed in the 1850s, the West Campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital is a nationally and perhaps internationally significant historic resource that ... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, 1700 East 38th Street, Marion, Grant County, IN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, 1700 Eas...

See also individual structures documented as HABS No. IN-306-A through HABS No. IN-306-AR. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Marion Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ... More

St. Elizabeths Hospital, East Wing, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, East Wing, 539-559 Cedar Drive, Southeast, Wa...

For an overview of the Center Building Group, see HABS DC-349-BT Significance: The East Wing (Building 4) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness at the St. Elizabeths campus. As... More

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Neuropsychiatric Hospital Infirm Building, Virginia Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks Division
1 Jefferson Barracks Drive, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Neuropsychiatric Hospital ...

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St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SE, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

St. Elizabeths Hospital, Cow Barn, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue S...

Significance: According to the 1884 Annual Report for St. Elizabeths Hospital, "the new barn, a building 120 x 60 feet, with foundations and basement of brick and superstructure of wood, now drawing towards com... More

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