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Columbus State Hospital, also known as Ohio State Hospital for Insane, was a public psychiatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1838 and rebuilt in 1877. [1] The hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan. [2] The building was said to have been the largest in the U.S. or the world, until the Pentagon was completed in 1943. [3] [4]
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places entries in Columbus, Ohio, ... Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum: Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum. April 24, 1986 ...
English: Photograph taken in Columbus, Ohio c. 1897. " View looking towards the front facade of the Columbus State Hospital as seen from across the front lawn. Legislation to construct the Ohio Lunatic Asylum on East Broad Street was passed in 1835 and the first stone was laid on April 20, 1837. Construction was completed on November 10, 1839.
Thomas Story Kirkbride, creator of the Kirkbride Plan. The establishment of state mental hospitals in the U.S. is partly due to reformer Dorothea Dix, who testified to the New Jersey legislature in 1844, vividly describing the state's treatment of lunatics; they were being housed in county jails, private homes, and the basements of public buildings.
Marc FeQuiere, CEO of Haitian Community Network (HaCoNet), talks with Haitian residents Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, at Colonial Village Apartments on Columbus' East Side, where more than 850 Haitian ...
A Columbus man who fatally stabbed his brother and a neighbor, and was determined by a judge to be not guilty by reason of insanity, has been ordered held in a psychiatric facility.. In July ...
This area was once home to the Columbus State Hospital for the Insane, until its demolition in 1997. Offices for the Ohio Department of Transportation and Ohio Department of Public Safety were built upon this site, where they still stand to this day. This area is also home to a branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library, one of the largest ...
Dueling psychologists testify in a Columbus man’s trial over the unprovoked stabbing of an auto parts store worker. Was the suspect in a racially motivated stabbing insane? A Columbus jury must ...