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The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
About 300 psychiatric hospitals, known at the time as insane asylums or colloquially as “loony bins” or “nuthouses,” were constructed in the United States before 1900. [1] Asylum architecture is notable for the way similar floor plans were built in a wide range of architectural styles. [2]
The Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo, New York, United States, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986. [2] [3] The site was designed by the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson in concert with the famed landscape team of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the late 1800s, incorporating a system of treatment for people with mental illness developed by Dr. Thomas ...
Psychiatric hospitals in the United States by state (42 C) Psychiatric hospitals in Washington, D.C. (4 P) K. ... Asylum architecture in the United States; C.
Psychiatric hospitals in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) I. Psychiatric hospitals in Illinois (11 P) Psychiatric hospitals in Indiana (4 P) Psychiatric hospitals in Iowa ...
Book, Constance Ledoux, and David Ezell. "Freedom of Speech and Institutional Control: Patient Publications at Central State Hospital, 1934-1978." Georgia Historical Quarterly 85 (2001): 106–26. Cranford, Peter G. But for the Grace of God: The Inside Story of the World's Largest Insane Asylum, Milledgeville. Augusta, Ga.: Great Pyramid Press ...
The Kirkbride Plan was a system of mental asylum design advocated by American psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883) in the mid-19th century. The asylums built in the Kirkbride design, often referred to as Kirkbride Buildings (or simply Kirkbrides ), were constructed during the mid-to-late-19th century in the United States.
The Utica Psychiatric Center, also known as Utica State Hospital, opened in Utica on January 16, 1843. [3] It was New York's first state-run facility designed to care for the mentally ill, and one of the first such institutions in the United States. It was originally called the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica.