http://asylumprojects.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Yarglouis&feedformat=atomAsylum Projects - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T08:49:13ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0http://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Essex_County_Sanatorium&diff=36848Essex County Sanatorium2019-05-27T18:39:47Z<p>Yarglouis: /* Images of Essex County Sanatorium */</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Essex County Sanitarium<br />
| image = sanad.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt =<br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1928<br />
| closed = 1964<br />
| demolished = 1976<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Middleton, MA<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Essex County Tuberculosis Sanatorium<br />
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==History==<br />
Located in a town called Middleton Massachusetts, the Essex County Tuberculosis Sanatorium opened in 1928. Just 2 miles north of Danvers State Hospital, "The San" as it was called, was filled to its capacity during operation with over 350 patients. During its time, the closest nearby Sanatorium was located in Hebron, Maine. Several years went by before the Middlesex County Sanatorium opened in Waltham, Massachusetts to help assist with the epidemic. The treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in the 1920's was not so far advanced as it is today. The sulfa drugs and penicillin, as well as certain forms of surgery, have since then eliminated long periods of hospitalization for the illness.<br />
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Patients at the San ranged from doctors, lawyers, clergymen, bank executives, insurance agents and even undertakers. There were fishermen from Gloucester, tannery workers from Peabody, stone cutters from Rockport, shoe workers from Lynn, along with many others. The ages also varied from as young as 7 to as old as 80.<br />
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Dr. Olin S. Pettingill was the San's first Superintendent. He brought with him a ready-made staff of nurses and doctors from the Hebron facility where he had been the head of a smaller institution dedicated to the study and elimination of tuberculosis. Many staff members lived on the hospital grounds at the "Webb House" which was located where the Essex County Correctional Facility is now.The treatment of pulmonary tuberculosi was then quite simple, good food and plenty of rest was the initial cure. It wasn't odd to see patients covered in layers clothes and blankets and the windows open during the winter months as fresh air was key to recovery. Like many other institutions, the San kept the male and female patients separated. The male patients were at one end of the main building and females at the opposite end. The Essex Sanatorium was completely self-sufficient. It had its own power, heating and water supply along with animal, fruit and vegetable farms located west of the property.<br />
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In 1960, as tuberculosis cases lessened the Sanatorium helped more chronic disease patients than tuberculosis patients. Eventually the chronic disease patients were moved elsewhere and the last tuberculosis patients were moved to the Middlesex County Hospital in July of 1964. The buildings sat abandoned for over 12 years. During the years of abandonment, the San had its share of homeless inhabitants and vandalism as a 2 alarm blaze destroyed the Superintendent's building on November 5th, 1969. The Superintendent's building was immediately demolished as a result of the fire damage. The entire campus was razed in 1976."<ref>John Gray, "Essex County, Middleton, Massachusetts." http://www.danversstateinsaneasylum.com/sanhistory.html. 2004. Accessed October 21st 2013.</ref><br />
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== Images of Essex County Sanatorium (color images courtesy of Robert W. Fox 1973==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Essex County Sanatorium Image Gallery|Essex County Sanatorium]]}}<br />
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File:sanad.jpg<br />
File:sancor.jpg<br />
File:sanwes.jpg<br />
File:sandr.jpg<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Massachusetts]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Yarglouis&diff=36847User talk:Yarglouis2019-05-27T18:35:48Z<p>Yarglouis: </p>
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<div>John, it is cool to see you posting/adding to this site. I hope you can contribute more, even if it is correcting something, and help us. :) [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 15:26, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
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No problem M-Explorer, just trying to give proper credit to the images. This chat feature is odd, feel free to contact me directly yarglouis@gmail.com</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Metropolitan_State_Hospital_Image_Gallery&diff=36845Metropolitan State Hospital Image Gallery2019-05-27T18:29:32Z<p>Yarglouis: /* Historical Images (color images Jennifer Brill) */</p>
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<div>The following are various images of [[Metropolitan State Hospital]].<br />
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== Historical Images (color images care of Jennifer Brill) ==<br />
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File:Admin Medical.jpg<br />
File:Chapel Kline.jpg<br />
File:CTG Lawn.jpg<br />
File:CTG Steps.jpg<br />
File:CTG Ward.jpg<br />
File:Female Dorm.jpg<br />
File:McLaughlin Admin Bldg.jpg<br />
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== Aerials ==<br />
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[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Metropolitan_State_Hospital_Image_Gallery&diff=36844Metropolitan State Hospital Image Gallery2019-05-27T18:29:01Z<p>Yarglouis: /* Historical Images */</p>
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<div>The following are various images of [[Metropolitan State Hospital]].<br />
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== Historical Images (color images Jennifer Brill) ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Admin Medical.jpg<br />
File:Chapel Kline.jpg<br />
File:CTG Lawn.jpg<br />
File:CTG Steps.jpg<br />
File:CTG Ward.jpg<br />
File:Female Dorm.jpg<br />
File:McLaughlin Admin Bldg.jpg<br />
File:Medical 1.jpg<br />
File:Medical Front 2.jpg<br />
File:Medical St.jpg<br />
File:Ad.jpg<br />
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== Postcards ==<br />
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File:Mapc039.jpg<br />
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== Aerials ==<br />
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File:Met State2.jpg<br />
File:Met State5.jpg<br />
File:Anothermetroas3.jpg<br />
File:Metrohalfpj3.jpg<br />
File:Metroarielxl5.jpg<br />
File:Met state lg.jpg<br />
File:Download.ashx 2 2 3-1.jpg<br />
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[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=User_talk:CranstonAsylums&diff=36680User talk:CranstonAsylums2019-05-21T18:00:31Z<p>Yarglouis: Gaebler Children's Center</p>
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<div>Can you please credit your sources (Gaebler Children's Center) when posting images? It's frustrating to do all the research and legwork and then seeing that work posted without a single credit. <br />
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Thank you, <br />
John</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Gaebler_Children%27s_Center_Image_Gallery&diff=36679Gaebler Children's Center Image Gallery2019-05-21T17:56:38Z<p>Yarglouis: /* Historical Images */</p>
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<div>The following are various images of [[Gaebler Children's Center]].<br />
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== Historical Images ==<br />
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if you're going to raid my website, at least credit the source.<br />
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https://www.metstate.com/gaebler<br />
Dr. Philip A. DiMattia<br />
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== Photos From After closed ==<br />
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File:deserted-mental-institution3.jpg <br />
File:P1060252.jpg<br />
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[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Danvers_State_Hospital&diff=36678Danvers State Hospital2019-05-21T17:54:02Z<p>Yarglouis: /* Links */</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Danvers State Hospital<br />
| image = Danvers Admin.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = Danvers State Hospital<br />
| caption = Kirkbride Complex, circa 1875.<br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = 1874<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1878 <br />
| closed = June 24, 1992<br />
| demolished = 2006-2007<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]/[[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]. (Danvers Resivoir, Original brick shell of Kirkbride complex. (D, F, G Wings)<br />
| building_style = [[Kirkbirde Planned Institutions|Kirkbride Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = Nathaniel J. Bradlee <br />
| location = Hawthorne Hill / Danvers, Massachusetts <br />
| architecture_style = Classical Revival <br />
| peak_patient_population = 2,400 est. <br />
| alternate_names =<br> <br />
*Danvers State Insane Asylum<br />
*Danvers State Asylum<br />
*Danvers State Lunatic Asylum <br />
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== History ==<br />
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Constructed at a cost of $1.5 million, with the estimated yearly per capita cost of patients being $3,000 the hospital originally consisted of two main center buildings, housing the administration, with four radiating wings. The outer wings (A and J) housed the dangerous patients. The administration building measured 90 by 60 feet, with a tower 130 feet tall. Connected in the rear was a building 180 by 60 feet, in which the kitchens, laundries, chapel, and dormitories for the attendants. In the rear is the boiler house of 70 feet square, with boilers of 450 horsepower, used for heating and ventilation. Water was pumped from Middleton Pond. On each side of the administration are the wings, west side was male, east side was female, connected by small square towers, with the exception of the last ones on each side, which are joined by octagonal towers. The former measured 10 feet square, and were used to separate the buildings. The original plan was designed to house 500 patients, with 100 more possible to accommodate in the attic. The buildings that make up the campus are the main hospital, the Bonner medical building, the gray gables, the male and female nurse homes, the male and female tubercular buildings, the repair shops, the mechanics garage, a work farm, a power plant, a gazebo, several homes and cottages, and some other buildings. However, by the late 1930s and 1940s, over 2,000 patients were being housed, and overcrowding was severe. <br />
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While the hospital was originally established to provide residential treatment and care to the mentally ill and the criminally insane, its functions expanded to include a training program for nurses in 1889 and a pathological research laboratory in 1895. In the 1890s, Dr. Charles Page, the superintendent, declared mechanical restraint unnecessary and harmful in cases of mental illness. By the 1920s the hospital was operating school clinics to help determine mental deficiency in children. During the 1960s as a result of increased emphasis on alternative methods of treatment, de-institutionalization, and community-based mental health care, the inpatient population started to decrease. Due to budget cuts within the mental health system the hospital was closed in June 1992. <br />
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In December of 2005, the property was sold to Avalon Bay Development. Demolition of most of the buildings began in January of 2006, with the intent to build 497 apartments and condominiums on the 77 acre site. By June 2006, all of the Danvers State Hospital buildings that were marked for demolition had been torn down, including all of the buildings on the lower grounds and all of the buildings on the hill except for the center-most sections of the Kirkbride buildings. Avalon Bay predicted that they would have properties available for rent/sale by Fall 2007.<br />
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However, on April 7, 2007, four of the new apartment complex buildings and four of Avalon bay's construction trailers burned down in a large fire visible from Boston, some seventeen miles away. The fire was confined mostly to the buildings under construction on the eastern end, and the damage to the remaining Kirkbride spires slightly catching fire due to excessive heat. An investigation is underway concerning the cause of the fire. Avalon Bay provided a live web cam of the construction at the old site of the hospital at their website; however, the pictures cut out at approximately 2:03 AM the night of the fire, and the web cam was disabled, possibly due to the fire.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* The Danvers State Hospital was almost located in Winthrop, Massachusetts under the name "Massachusetts State Hospital", however it was decided that the Danvers location was better suited for the needs of the state. <br />
* The glacial drumlin the asylum sat on (Hathorne Hill) was at one time the site of the home of John Hathorne, one of the judges in the Salem witch trials. (Danvers was originally Salem Village at the time) Most of the witch trial incidents occurred in the general vicinity of this hill, not in present day Salem, MA. A possible cause of the witch hysteria was an outbreak of ergot poisoning resulting from the consumption of moldy bread products which were likely made with crops farmed around Hathorne Hill as well.<br />
* Large amounts of assorted medical equipment, paperwork, medical records, journals, canceled payroll checks, old job applications, and miscellaneous patient/employee information were left behind inside the different hospital buildings. Some of the paperwork dated back to the late 1800s. Even some personal possessions had been left behind by patients.<br />
* There are two cemeteries for the hospital's dead patients, one on the hill and a second at Middleton Colony. The graves at the cemeteries have been mostly identified (originals just marked under the regestration number of the patient) and new markers have been put up by the original stones, the new ones are respectfully marked with names. <br />
* The A and J wings were dubbed the "violent wards" that housed the criminally insane. <br />
* All the wings to the east of the kirkbride housed the females, and to the west, males.<br />
* The A wing was dubbed "the snake pit"<br />
* The "gray gables" held the male and female nurses before new homes for the different genders were built.<br />
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== Images of Danvers State Hospital ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Danvers State Hospital Image Gallery|Danvers State Hospital]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Danvers.png<br />
File:dsiaplan.jpg<br />
File:danversSH3.jpg<br />
File:danversSH1.jpg<br />
File:Danvers_State_Hospital_Illustration.jpg<br />
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File:DanversStateHospitalPainting.jpg<br />
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== Popular Culture and Media ==<br />
===Books===<br />
*''Danvers State, Memoirs Of A Nurse In The Asylum'' By Angelina Szot and Barbara Stillwell<br />
*''The Eye of Danvers, A History of Danvers State Hospital'' By Michael Ramseur<br />
*''Nobody's Child'' By Marie Balter and Richard Katz<br />
*''Art therapy at Danvers'' By Shaun McNiff<br />
*''Project 17'' By Laurie Faria Stolarz<br />
===Movies===<br />
* Home Before Dark (1958)<br />
* Session 9 (2001) <br />
===Television===<br />
* Scared!, a ghost hunting and urban exploration show (2004, 2006)<br />
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==Videos==<br />
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*This is a short documentary of a group of former patients who restored and memorialized forgotten cemeteries at the Danvers State Hospital.<br />
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*This is a video done on the Danvers State Insane Asylum Laboratory Papers<br />
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*The following fifteen minute video was created by Inside Story and Andrea Hall on the closing of the hospital.<br />
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*The following hour and eighteen minute long video was shot in 1992 during the closing of Danvers State Hospital. The state was trying to sell the property for reuse as soon as possible after the hospital closure. This was a tour of prospective buyers and was conducted both through the closed sections and, at that time, still operating sections. <br />
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*The following fifty-six minute film entitled "Marie Balter Beyond Mental Illness" is a look at Marie Balter's life in and out of Danvers State Hospital, her issues, and how she conquered them.<br />
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==Cemetery==<br />
The former hospital property contains 2 cemeteries for patients. One contains 768 graves the other 93. Restoration efforts began on both in 1997 & continues today.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
*[http://www.danversstateinsaneasylum.com/ Danvers State Insane Asylum]<br />
*[http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/danvers/ Danvers State Hospital at Kirkbridebuildings.com]<br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]<br />
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[[Category:Institution With A Cemetery]]<br />
[[Category:Asylum Books]]<br />
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[[Category:Past Featured Article Of The Week]]</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Gaebler_Children%27s_Center_Image_Gallery&diff=36677Gaebler Children's Center Image Gallery2019-05-21T17:52:00Z<p>Yarglouis: /* Historical Images */</p>
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<div>The following are various images of [[Gaebler Children's Center]].<br />
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== Historical Images ==<br />
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if you're going to raid my website, at least credit the source.<br />
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https://www.metstate.com/gaebler<br />
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== Photos From After closed ==<br />
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File:Gaeblergm5.jpg<br />
File:abandoned-childrens-insane-asylum.jpg<br />
File:P1060258.jpg<br />
File:P1060261.jpg<br />
File:imagesJZW6ZC7K.jpg<br />
File:deserted-mental-institution3.jpg <br />
File:P1060252.jpg<br />
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[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Gaebler_Children%27s_Center_Image_Gallery&diff=36676Gaebler Children's Center Image Gallery2019-05-21T17:51:15Z<p>Yarglouis: /* Historical Images */</p>
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<div>The following are various images of [[Gaebler Children's Center]].<br />
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== Historical Images ==<br />
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File:gaebler1.jpg<br />
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if you're going to raid my website, at least link it. <br />
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https://www.metstate.com/gaebler<br />
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== Photos From After closed ==<br />
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File:abandoned-childrens-insane-asylum.jpg<br />
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File:deserted-mental-institution3.jpg <br />
File:P1060252.jpg<br />
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[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Metropolitan_State_Hospital&diff=36675Metropolitan State Hospital2019-05-21T17:50:08Z<p>Yarglouis: /* History */</p>
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<div><div style="font-size:85%; text-align:left;">If you were looking for Metropolitan State Hospital in California, [[Norwalk State Hospital|click here]]</div> <!-- Please keep this at the very top of the page and also please do not change or remove this, thanks! --><br />
{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Metropolitan State Hospital<br />
| image = Mapc039.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = Metropolitan State Hospital <br />
| caption = <br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = 1927<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened =<br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
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| peak_patient_population = 2,200 in the 1960s<br />
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==History==<br />
It became apparent that while the mental health system as a whole was overcrowded, the most urgent need was in the metropolitan area. Intense debate over possible solutions occurred in 1908-1926. The Trustees of the newly acquired Boston State Hospital advocated for expansion of thier facility to a 5,000 patient capacity, but were unable to convince the State Board of Insanity of the merits of that proposal. The need for a second metropolitan area hospital was identified as early as 1908.<br />
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Introduced to the state legislature in 1912, the board authorized spending in January of 1915. A site that was in close proximity to the Walter E. Fernald State School was immediately acquired. Plans were prepared for a 1,900 patient facility to be built on the cottage/colony plan. No action was taken for several years due to the Trustees of Boston State Hospital continue to argue for their own expansion and the first World War diverted state attention and funds.<br />
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Finally, in 1927, the State legislature responded by appropriating $1,500,000 for preparation of the Waltham site. The ground breaking ceremony took place on December 27, 1927 at the Administration Building. Cornerstone laying ceremonies were held on October 17, 1928. Construction costs were kept down by the use of the plain red brick buildings of early American colonial type. Trim elements, including pedimented pavilions and quoins, were deleted from the ward buildings. As the first campus developed in the automobile age, Met State did not require immediate adjacency to railroad facilities. As the most recent of the State's institutional treatment centers for the insane Metropolitan State Hospital represented the third and final stage in the evolving form of hospitals for the mentally ill. Like its predecessors, the Kirkbride and cottage/colony, it responded to increases in patient populations within the constraints of a publicly funded budget which both often failed.<br />
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All buildings were demolished in 2006 with the exception of the Administrative building. It remains standing, close to a condo complex built over the former hospital.<br />
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[http://www.metstate.com Metropolitan State Hospital website]<br />
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== Images of Metropolitan State Hospital ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Metropolitan State Hospital Image Gallery|Metropolitan State Hospital]]}}<br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Massachusetts]]<br />
[[Category:Past Featured Article Of The Week]]</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Gaebler_Children%27s_Center_Image_Gallery&diff=36674Gaebler Children's Center Image Gallery2019-05-21T17:46:49Z<p>Yarglouis: /* Historical Images */</p>
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<div>The following are various images of [[Gaebler Children's Center]].<br />
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== Historical Images ==<br />
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if you're going to raid my website, at least link it. <br />
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https://www.metstate.com/gaebler<br />
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Gaebler Children's Center<br />
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== Photos From After closed ==<br />
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[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>Yarglouishttp://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Gaebler_Children%27s_Center&diff=36673Gaebler Children's Center2019-05-21T17:45:24Z<p>Yarglouis: /* Links */</p>
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| name = Gaebler Children's Center<br />
| image = Gaebler Children's Center1.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
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| opened = 1955<br />
| closed = 1992<br />
| demolished = 2011<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
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*Gaebler State Hospital<br />
*Gaebler Children's Psychiatric Unit <br />
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Gaebler Children's Center was a psychiatric institution for severely mentally ill children and adolescents, located in Waltham, Massachusetts.<br />
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==History==<br />
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In 1945 it was noted that in a Governor's report that there were children ages 7, 9, 10 among the patient population at Metropolitan State Hospital. The center opened on October 8, 1955 near the grounds of the [[Metropolitan State Hospital]] and closed on January 31, 1992. It was named after William C. Gaebler, the second superintendent of the Metropolitan State Hospital. The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) closed the center as it was antiquated and could no longer serve the needs of the children it housed. According to the DMH, this closure coincided with the decision to place mentally ill children in community settings instead of in institutional settings. Others felt the center was closed due to budget cuts.<br />
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Demolition of the Gaebler Children's Center was completed in January 2011. The work cost the City of Waltham approximately $637,000. There are no current plans for the 55 acre lot.<br />
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== Images of Gaebler Children's Center ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Gaebler Children's Center Image Gallery|Gaebler Children's Center]]}}<br />
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==Links==<br />
*[https://www.metstate.com/gaebler Gaebler Children's Center]<br />
*[http://www.madpride.org/VFC10GaeblerHellandBack.htm A moving testimony/report on the hospital.]<br />
*March 03, 2010 - [[Council panel backs funding to demolish Gaebler Children's Center]]<br />
*[http://creepychusetts.blogspot.com/2011/02/gaebler-childrens-center-waltham.html Progress of Demolition]<br />
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[[Category:Closed Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
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