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<div>The following are various images of [[Medfield State Hospital]].<br />
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== Historical Images ==<br />
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<div>I live in Cranston Rhode Island and I like to research all old and current mental hospitals and prisons. I have visited and photographed various historic state hospitals, state schools and prisons my photos can be viewed on flickr:<br />
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/131263625@N06/albums My Flickr ]<br />
My Instagram:[https://www.instagram.com/_abandoned_adventures/]</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Medfield_State_Hospital_Image_Gallery&diff=38193Medfield State Hospital Image Gallery2019-10-08T22:32:17Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </p>
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<div>The following are various images of [[Medfield State Hospital]].<br />
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== Historical Images ==<br />
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File:MedfieldStateHospital_CreditMHS.jpg<br />
File:3de0bf72826ac9d01580f2726027e150.jpg<br />
File:6a0aa41187ef96d7895728b57c8d10a5.jpg<br />
File:585b1baf0bb7172cd77b9df3b38519c4.jpg<br />
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<div>The following are various images of [[Medfield State Hospital]].<br />
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== Historical Images ==<br />
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File:MedfieldStateHospital_CreditMHS.jpg<br />
File:3de0bf72826ac9d01580f2726027e150.jpg<br />
File:6a0aa41187ef96d7895728b57c8d10a5.jpg<br />
File:585b1baf0bb7172cd77b9df3b38519c4.jpg<br />
File:5d78c495e7365e74c94f2bdf04a319ea.jpg<br />
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</gallery></div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Medfield_State_Hospital_Image_Gallery&diff=38191Medfield State Hospital Image Gallery2019-10-08T22:30:11Z<p>CranstonAsylums: Created page with "The following are various images of Medfield State Hospital. == Historical Images == <gallery> File:MedfieldStateHospital_CreditMHS.jpg File:3de0bf72826ac9d01580f2726027e..."</p>
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<div>The following are various images of [[Medfield State Hospital]].<br />
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== Historical Images ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:MedfieldStateHospital_CreditMHS.jpg<br />
File:3de0bf72826ac9d01580f2726027e150.jpg<br />
File:6a0aa41187ef96d7895728b57c8d10a5.jpg<br />
File:585b1baf0bb7172cd77b9df3b38519c4.jpg<br />
File:5d78c495e7365e74c94f2bdf04a319ea.jpg<br />
File:EP-160739854.jpg<br />
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Medfield State Hospital<br />
| image = Medfield01.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1892<br />
| construction_began = 1896<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1896<br />
| closed = 2003<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = William Pitt Wentworth<br />
| location = Medfield, MA<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Medfield Insane Asylum<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Medfield State Hospital was founded by an act of the State Legislature in 1892. The property consisted of several hundred acres and twenty two buildings. Over the years the buildings and land were increased until it reached its maximum size of some fifty eight buildings and nine hundred plus acres.<br />
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The Hospital has had as many as 2,200 patients on the property and a staff of in the range of 500-900 persons. It was in effect, a self contained community with a population at the time rivaling the size of the Town of Medfield. The facility supplied its own power, heat, water, sewage system, and raised its own livestock and produce. Medfield State Hospital claimed to be the first mental health hospital to be built on the “cottage plan” with individual buildings to allow for better light ventilation, easier classification, and to create a more homelike environment.<br />
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During the Kennedy Administration, in the early 1960s, Congress passed a law requiring that all mental health patients in the United States be housed or hospitalized in the least restrictive environment possible. In the early seventies, as a result of this law, patients, guardians, and parents of patients filed a class action suit against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to require the DMH to conform with the federal law. In 1974, a federal court consent decree was entered into by the DMH resulting in the relocation of most mental patients from isolated mental institutions to community based halfway houses and hospitals. A result of this decision has been to reduce the number of patients at Medfield to approximately 200. It has also set in motion DMH’s plan to eventually dispose all or part of the Medfield facility, along with seven other similar institutions across the State.<br />
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Because a large part of the property was either in the Charles River Flood Plain or was environmentally valuable, some 350-acres, of the 900 plus acres was transferred to the Department of Environmental Management (formerly the Department of Natural Resources) during the early 1970s. Fifty seven acres was given to the Town of Medfield for recreational purposes and some ten acres was taken for the new Route 27 right of way.<br />
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==Images==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Medfield State Hospital Image Gallery|Medfield State Hospital]]}}<br />
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==Video==<br />
*The following is a thirty minute video on the history of Medfield State Hospital that was uploaded to YouTube by Medfield TV. <br />
<videoflash>3fgXBNELwpg</videoflash><br />
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==Cemetery==<br />
The Medfield State Hospital Cemetery is the burial place of 841 patients who died while residents of the Medfield State Hospital between 1918-1988. Until 2005, the gravestones were small concrete squares that only contained a number. However, in September 2005, new markers with names and dates were placed at each grave.<br />
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[[Category:Closed Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Institution With A Cemetery]]<br />
[[Category:Articles With Videos]]<br />
[[Category:Past Featured Article Of The Week]]</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:585b1baf0bb7172cd77b9df3b38519c4.jpg&diff=38189File:585b1baf0bb7172cd77b9df3b38519c4.jpg2019-10-08T22:19:58Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </p>
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<div></div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=User_talk:CranstonAsylums&diff=37292User talk:CranstonAsylums2019-08-14T22:36:34Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </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<br />
:After looking at your website, we will give credit to the original credit holder: Dr. Philip A. DiMattia [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 14:47, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
::Also, to add on to what John posted, [[user:CranstonAsylums]] please make sure to give credit when credit is due. If you can cite where you got your images, even if it is your own work, that allows us to credit the original creator of the images. This also includes you if you created the images. [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 15:23, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
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I apologize I will cite from now on I had no ill intent it just never crossed my mind to do so originally due to the age of the photos but I will from now on. My main objective is just to try and put all pieces of history I find in one place to try and preserve it for all those curious as I very much am. Epically of Gaebler which is one of the the places I am most focused on researching.<br />
<br />
My apologies,<br />
CranstonAsylums<br />
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===Dexter===<br />
Please cite your rationale for making a major article change like changing article titles? [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 16:14, 14 August 2019 (MDT)<br />
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Dexter has never been referred to as "Dexter State hospital" nor has it ever been owned by the state it was owned by the city of Providence and has only been called "Dexter Asylum"<br />
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My sources: https://brownbears.com/sports/2018/4/27/athletics-history-dexter.aspx<br />
http://www.rhodetour.org/items/show/356<br />
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The reason I’m getting involved is that you’re asking/looking for a major change to an article. One that will mess up a few things if not handled right. However, I will go with your reasoning. Give me a few moments to do it correctly. Sorry, I have gotten skitterish with article name changes after various people wanted to rename articles to names they thought it should be and created havoc in the past. Give me ten minutes to make the necessary changes then you can have at it. [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 16:25, 14 August 2019 (MDT)<br />
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No problem at all. I understand and agree that it should not be so easy to do something as big as change the name of an article.<br />
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All done, have at it! :) [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 16:32, 14 August 2019 (MDT)<br />
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Thanks!</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=User_talk:CranstonAsylums&diff=37288User talk:CranstonAsylums2019-08-14T22:29:22Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </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<br />
:After looking at your website, we will give credit to the original credit holder: Dr. Philip A. DiMattia [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 14:47, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
::Also, to add on to what John posted, [[user:CranstonAsylums]] please make sure to give credit when credit is due. If you can cite where you got your images, even if it is your own work, that allows us to credit the original creator of the images. This also includes you if you created the images. [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 15:23, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
<br />
I apologize I will cite from now on I had no ill intent it just never crossed my mind to do so originally due to the age of the photos but I will from now on. My main objective is just to try and put all pieces of history I find in one place to try and preserve it for all those curious as I very much am. Epically of Gaebler which is one of the the places I am most focused on researching.<br />
<br />
My apologies,<br />
CranstonAsylums<br />
<br />
===Dexter===<br />
Please cite your rationale for making a major article change like changing article titles? [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 16:14, 14 August 2019 (MDT)<br />
<br />
Dexter has never been referred to as "Dexter State hospital" nor has it ever been owned by the state it was owned by the city of Providence and has only been called "Dexter Asylum"<br />
<br />
My sources: https://brownbears.com/sports/2018/4/27/athletics-history-dexter.aspx<br />
http://www.rhodetour.org/items/show/356<br />
<br />
The reason I’m getting involved is that you’re asking/looking for a major change to an article. One that will mess up a few things if not handled right. However, I will go with your reasoning. Give me a few moments to do it correctly. Sorry, I have gotten skitterish with article name changes after various people wanted to rename articles to names they thought it should be and created havoc in the past. Give me ten minutes to make the necessary changes then you can have at it. [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 16:25, 14 August 2019 (MDT)<br />
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No problem at all. I understand and agree that it should not be so easy to do something as big as change the name of an article.</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=User_talk:CranstonAsylums&diff=37279User talk:CranstonAsylums2019-08-14T22:24:05Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </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 />
<br />
Thank you, <br />
John<br />
:After looking at your website, we will give credit to the original credit holder: Dr. Philip A. DiMattia [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 14:47, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
::Also, to add on to what John posted, [[user:CranstonAsylums]] please make sure to give credit when credit is due. If you can cite where you got your images, even if it is your own work, that allows us to credit the original creator of the images. This also includes you if you created the images. [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 15:23, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
<br />
I apologize I will cite from now on I had no ill intent it just never crossed my mind to do so originally due to the age of the photos but I will from now on. My main objective is just to try and put all pieces of history I find in one place to try and preserve it for all those curious as I very much am. Epically of Gaebler which is one of the the places I am most focused on researching.<br />
<br />
My apologies,<br />
CranstonAsylums<br />
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===Dexter===<br />
Please cite your rationale for making a major article change like changing article titles? [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 16:14, 14 August 2019 (MDT)<br />
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Dexter has never been referred to as "Dexter State hospital" nor has it ever been owned by the state it was owned by the city of Providence and has only been called "Dexter Asylum"<br />
<br />
My sources: https://brownbears.com/sports/2018/4/27/athletics-history-dexter.aspx<br />
http://www.rhodetour.org/items/show/356</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=User_talk:CranstonAsylums&diff=37278User talk:CranstonAsylums2019-08-14T22:18:50Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </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 />
<br />
Thank you, <br />
John<br />
:After looking at your website, we will give credit to the original credit holder: Dr. Philip A. DiMattia [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 14:47, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
::Also, to add on to what John posted, [[user:CranstonAsylums]] please make sure to give credit when credit is due. If you can cite where you got your images, even if it is your own work, that allows us to credit the original creator of the images. This also includes you if you created the images. [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 15:23, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
<br />
I apologize I will cite from now on I had no ill intent it just never crossed my mind to do so originally due to the age of the photos but I will from now on. My main objective is just to try and put all pieces of history I find in one place to try and preserve it for all those curious as I very much am. Epically of Gaebler which is one of the the places I am most focused on researching.<br />
<br />
My apologies,<br />
CranstonAsylums<br />
<br />
===Dexter===<br />
Please cite your rationale for making a major article change like changing article titles? [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 16:14, 14 August 2019 (MDT)<br />
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Dexter has never been referred to as "Dexter State hospital" nor has it ever been owned by the state it was owned by the city of Providence and has only been called "Dexter Asylum"</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Rhode_Island&diff=37276Rhode Island2019-08-14T22:08:34Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </p>
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<div>{{infobox state<br />
| Name = Rhode Island<br />
| flag = 660px-Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png<br />
| flagAlt = Flag of Rhode Island<br />
| seal = 440px-Seal_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png<br />
| sealAlt = Seal of Rhode Island<br />
| Motto = Hope<br />
| Map = 286px-Map_of_USA_RI.svg.png<br />
| MapAlt = <br />
| Nickname = The Ocean State<br />
| Capital = Providence<br />
| LargestCity = Providence<br />
| Total_Area_mile = 1,214<br />
| Total_Area_km = 3,140<br />
| Width_mile = 37<br />
| Width_km = 60<br />
| Length_mile = 48<br />
| Length_km = 77<br />
| total_state_population = 1,050,292 (2012 est.)<br />
| total_mh_inpatient_pop = <br />
| year_past_peak_pop = <br />
| past_mh_inpatient_pop = <br />
| total_number_mental_health_institutions = <br />
| current_number_public_institutions = <br />
| current_number_private_institutions = <br />
| year_peak_mh_institutions = <br />
| peak_mh_institutions = <br />
| year_peak_state_hospitals = <br />
| peak_state_hospitals = <br />
| year_peak_state_schools = <br />
| peak_state_schools = <br />
| year_peak_private_mental_hospitals = <br />
| peak_private_mental_hospitals = <br />
}}<br />
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== State Hospitals ==<br />
* [[Eleanor Slater Hospital]]<br />
* [[Rhode Island State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Zambarano Hospital]]<br />
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== Private Hospitals ==<br />
* [[Bradley Hospital]]<br />
* [[Butler Hospital]]<br />
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== State Schools ==<br />
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* [[Sockanosset Boys Training School]]<br />
* [[Oaklawn School For Girls]]<br />
* [[The Ladd School]]<br />
* [[State Home and School]]<br />
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== City Poor Farms and Asylums==<br />
* [[Dexter State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Warwick Asylum]]<br />
* [[Coventry Poor Farm]]<br />
* [[Newport Asylum]]<br />
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==Sanatoriums==<br />
* [[Rhode Island State Sanatorium]]<br />
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Dexter Asylum<br />
| image = Dexter.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = 1828<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened =<br />
| closed = 1957<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location =<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Dexter Asylum<br />
*Dexter Asylum for Paupers<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
The Dexter Asylum served as an institution for the care of the poor, aged and mentally ill of Providence from 1828 to 1957. The Asylum began through a bequest in the will of Ebenezer Knight Dexter (1773-1824), a wealthy citizen who had served on a town committee for poor relief. Dexter's gift to the town, though much needed at the time, later was seen as an anachronism--a walled and isolated "poor farm" in the midst of Providence's residential east side. Beginning in the 1920's, city officials, developers and assorted heirs made several attempts to change the conditions of the will, and in 1957, they finally succeeded. The Dexter Asylum property was sold to Brown University.<br />
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Ebenezer Dexter's will of 1824 left a property known as Neck Farm to Providence to be used for "the accommodation and support of the poor of said town... and for no other use or purpose whatever." The bulk of his estate was left to the city (then town) for the construction and upkeep of the asylum and the care of the poor. Dexter's will further called for the town to erect a stone wall around the property, forbade the town to sell Neck Farm, and specified that a town meeting of no less than "forty freemen" should be required for any action concerning the property.<br />
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Before Dexter's bequest, Providence had no institution for the care of the poor. Those unable to support themselves due to age or illness were cared for at town expense in private homes by caretakers who bid for the job. A committee formed soon after Dexter's death to oversee the donation, and town meetings from 1824 until the original building's completion in 1828 discussed the construction, operation and rules of the asylum.<br />
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In the mid-nineteenth century, as Providence grew, crowding became a problem at the asylum. The opening of Butler Hospital provided a new resource for the mentally ill, and some inmates were transferred there in 1847. In 1849 Thomas M. Burgess, mayor of Providence, called for either a limit on inmates or the construction of new buildings to accommodate the asylum's 190 men and women. The next year, the Board of Aldermen voted to limit inmates to 180. In 1867, the city commissioned "alterations and improvements" costing $120,000, and later sketches show an enlarged main building, but new buildings were not added. By the late 1870's, the inmate population had stabilized at around 100, where it would remain until the asylum's closing.<br />
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Living conditions, as depicted in early lists of rules and punishments, work records and daily menus, were hardly desirable by present standards. Visitors were permitted only once every three weeks; male and female inmates were strictly separated; the evening meal consisted of white bread and tea; and those found guilty of drinking, "immoral conduct," "loud talking or disrespectful behavior" or faking illness to avoid work were subject to "confinement in bridewell (a jail cell) for a time not exceeding three days, and of being kept on short allowance of food." An 1843 observer reported one-quarter of the inmates insane, yet medical records reveal no attempt at treating mental illness beyond confinement in the "maniac cells."<br />
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Legal wrangles between the city and the asylum began as early as 1872, when part of the stone wall around the Dexter property was knocked down during the widening of Hope Street. The city solicitor finally determined that Providence was not legally required to rebuild the wall. The city did restore the wall, but more conflicts were to come. In the 1920's, with rising real estate values and open space at a premium, city officials first tried to break up the property and sell it for house lots, then suggested making the land a public park. In 1926, the Rhode Island Supreme Court upheld the provisions of Ebenezer Dexter's will, declaring that no part of the property could be sold--much to the disgust of city Alderman Sol S. Bromson, who declared that the city could board the inmates at the Biltmore Hotel for less than it cost to maintain the asylum. The will's stipulation that "forty freemen" be present for any meeting about the asylum was altered in 1940, when the state General Assembly allowed the city council to have all powers originally bestowed upon the freemen.<br />
<br />
A 1941 article in the Providence Sunday Journal characterized the asylum as a "well-meaning legacy of a bygone day which has made time stand still." Vegetable farming had been abandoned in the late 1920's, and while dairy farming continued through the '40's, farm revenues were not enough to make the asylum self-supporting. In 1947, the battle to break the will resumed. Lawyers and genealogists searched through old records, trying to determine who had owned "Neck Farm" before Ebenezer Dexter. Could the heirs of this previous owner determine the fate of the property? Could Dexter's heirs? If the asylum was demolished, what would take its place--a housing development, a park? In 1956, Brown University President Barnaby Keeney proposed that the city sell or lease the property to the university for a gym and athletic complex: "If and when the Courts permit the City to dispose of this land, it must honor its obligation to the Dexter Trust by obtaining the best possible income for the support of the poor... the University is in a position to help."<br />
<br />
Providence Mayor Walter H. Reynolds hesitated, noting that the land could provide space for as many as 150 new home sites. But in the end the Brown proposal proved the best offer; today the University's athletic complex stands on the former asylum site on Hope Street. In October, 1957, the Dexter Asylum submitted its final report to the city of Providence. Its 129-year history had come to an end.<ref>[http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss067.htm From the Rhode Island Historical Society]</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
== Images of Dexter Asylum ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Dexter Asylum Image Gallery|Dexter Asylum]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:bba3295108d83d82ca8c2cfdd837f8eb.jpg<br />
File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey,_PHOTO-COPY_OF_ENGRAVING_BY_S.S._JONES,_SHOWING_DEXTER_ASYLUM_IN_1871._-_Dexter_Asylum,_Hope_Street_and.jpg<br />
File:th.jpg<br />
File:Dexter Asylum Providence RI.jpg<br />
File:DexterAsylum.jpg<br />
File:tk94j1csy8lhc1o5.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Rhode Island]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Past Featured Article Of The Week]]</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Rhode_Island&diff=37272Rhode Island2019-08-14T22:01:19Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </p>
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<div>{{infobox state<br />
| Name = Rhode Island<br />
| flag = 660px-Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png<br />
| flagAlt = Flag of Rhode Island<br />
| seal = 440px-Seal_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png<br />
| sealAlt = Seal of Rhode Island<br />
| Motto = Hope<br />
| Map = 286px-Map_of_USA_RI.svg.png<br />
| MapAlt = <br />
| Nickname = The Ocean State<br />
| Capital = Providence<br />
| LargestCity = Providence<br />
| Total_Area_mile = 1,214<br />
| Total_Area_km = 3,140<br />
| Width_mile = 37<br />
| Width_km = 60<br />
| Length_mile = 48<br />
| Length_km = 77<br />
| total_state_population = 1,050,292 (2012 est.)<br />
| total_mh_inpatient_pop = <br />
| year_past_peak_pop = <br />
| past_mh_inpatient_pop = <br />
| total_number_mental_health_institutions = <br />
| current_number_public_institutions = <br />
| current_number_private_institutions = <br />
| year_peak_mh_institutions = <br />
| peak_mh_institutions = <br />
| year_peak_state_hospitals = <br />
| peak_state_hospitals = <br />
| year_peak_state_schools = <br />
| peak_state_schools = <br />
| year_peak_private_mental_hospitals = <br />
| peak_private_mental_hospitals = <br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
== State Hospitals ==<br />
<br />
* [[Eleanor Slater Hospital]]<br />
* [[Rhode Island State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Zambarano Hospital]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Private Hospitals ==<br />
* [[Bradley Hospital]]<br />
* [[Butler Hospital]]<br />
<br />
== State Schools ==<br />
<br />
* [[Sockanosset Boys Training School]]<br />
* [[Oaklawn School For Girls]]<br />
* [[The Ladd School]]<br />
* [[State Home and School]]<br />
<br />
== City Poor Farms and Asylums==<br />
* [[Dexter State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Warwick Asylum]]<br />
* [[Coventry Poor Farm]]<br />
* [[Newport Asylum]]<br />
<br />
==Sanatoriums==<br />
* [[Rhode Island State Sanatorium]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:United States of America]]</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=User_talk:CranstonAsylums&diff=36779User talk:CranstonAsylums2019-05-23T08:01:47Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </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 />
<br />
Thank you, <br />
John<br />
:After looking at your website, we will give credit to the original credit holder: Dr. Philip A. DiMattia [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 14:47, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
::Also, to add on to what John posted, [[user:CranstonAsylums]] please make sure to give credit when credit is due. If you can cite where you got your images, even if it is your own work, that allows us to credit the original creator of the images. This also includes you if you created the images. [[User:M-Explorer|M-Explorer]] ([[User talk:M-Explorer|talk]]) 15:23, 21 May 2019 (MDT)<br />
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I apologize I will cite from now on I had no ill intent it just never crossed my mind to do so originally due to the age of the photos but I will from now on. My main objective is just to try and put all pieces of history I find in one place to try and preserve it for all those curious as I very much am. Epically of Gaebler which is one of the the places I am most focused on researching.<br />
<br />
My apologies,<br />
CranstonAsylums</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Dexter_Asylum_Image_Gallery&diff=36366Dexter Asylum Image Gallery2019-04-18T19:25:26Z<p>CranstonAsylums: /* Historical Images */</p>
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<div>The following images are of the [[Dexter State Hospital]].<br />
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==Historical Images==<br />
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<gallery><br />
File:Dexter.jpg<br />
File:Dexter Asylum Providence RI.jpg<br />
File:Dexter Asylum Providence RI PC.jpg<br />
File:7215527304_45cf1e2bca_z.jpg<br />
File:download.jpg<br />
File:mytest-cropped_604.jpg<br />
File:tk94j1csy8lhc1o5.jpg<br />
File:6720878493_a48c4a3066.jpg<br />
File:Dexter_Asylum,_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg<br />
File:Dexter_Asylum,_by_Leander_Baker.jpg<br />
File:Dexter_Farm_In_Background.jpg<br />
File:bba3295108d83d82ca8c2cfdd837f8eb.jpg<br />
File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey,_PHOTO-COPY_OF_ENGRAVING_BY_S.S._JONES,_SHOWING_DEXTER_ASYLUM_IN_1871._-_Dexter_Asylum,_Hope_Street_and.jpg<br />
File:th.jpg<br />
File:DexterAsylum.jpg<br />
File:a01fed8c9c4db75f544ccffe32f054e7.jpg<br />
<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:Dexter_Asylum,_by_Leander_Baker.jpg&diff=36365File:Dexter Asylum, by Leander Baker.jpg2019-04-18T19:23:39Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </p>
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<div></div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Dexter_Asylum_Image_Gallery&diff=36364Dexter Asylum Image Gallery2019-04-18T19:22:04Z<p>CranstonAsylums: /* Historical Images */</p>
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<div>The following images are of the [[Dexter State Hospital]].<br />
<br />
==Historical Images==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Dexter.jpg<br />
File:Dexter Asylum Providence RI.jpg<br />
File:Dexter Asylum Providence RI PC.jpg<br />
File:7215527304_45cf1e2bca_z.jpg<br />
File:download.jpg<br />
File:mytest-cropped_604.jpg<br />
File:tk94j1csy8lhc1o5.jpg<br />
File:6720878493_a48c4a3066.jpg<br />
File:Dexter_Asylum,_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg<br />
File:Dexter_Farm_In_Background.jpg<br />
File:bba3295108d83d82ca8c2cfdd837f8eb.jpg<br />
File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey,_PHOTO-COPY_OF_ENGRAVING_BY_S.S._JONES,_SHOWING_DEXTER_ASYLUM_IN_1871._-_Dexter_Asylum,_Hope_Street_and.jpg<br />
File:th.jpg<br />
File:DexterAsylum.jpg<br />
<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Dexter_Asylum_Image_Gallery&diff=36363Dexter Asylum Image Gallery2019-04-18T19:21:27Z<p>CranstonAsylums: /* Historical Images */</p>
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<div>The following images are of the [[Dexter State Hospital]].<br />
<br />
==Historical Images==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Dexter.jpg<br />
File:Dexter Asylum Providence RI.jpg<br />
File:Dexter Asylum Providence RI PC.jpg<br />
File:7215527304_45cf1e2bca_z.jpg<br />
File:download.jpg<br />
File:mytest-cropped_604.jpg<br />
File:tk94j1csy8lhc1o5.jpg<br />
File:6720878493_a48c4a3066.jpg<br />
File:Dexter_Asylum,_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg<br />
File:Dexter_Farm_In_Background.jpg<br />
File:bba3295108d83d82ca8c2cfdd837f8eb.jpg<br />
File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey,_PHOTO-COPY_OF_ENGRAVING_BY_S.S._JONES,_SHOWING_DEXTER_ASYLUM_IN_1871._-_Dexter_Asylum,_Hope_Street_and.jpg<br />
File:th.jpg<br />
File:DexterAsylum.jpg<br />
File:tk94j1csy8lhc1o5.jpg<br />
<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Dexter_Asylum&diff=36362Dexter Asylum2019-04-18T19:20:51Z<p>CranstonAsylums: /* Images of Dexter State Hospital */</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Dexter State Hospital<br />
| image = Dexter.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = 1828<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened =<br />
| closed = 1957<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location =<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Dexter Asylum<br />
*Dexter Asylum for Paupers<br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
The Dexter Asylum served as an institution for the care of the poor, aged and mentally ill of Providence from 1828 to 1957. The Asylum began through a bequest in the will of Ebenezer Knight Dexter (1773-1824), a wealthy citizen who had served on a town committee for poor relief. Dexter's gift to the town, though much needed at the time, later was seen as an anachronism--a walled and isolated "poor farm" in the midst of Providence's residential east side. Beginning in the 1920's, city officials, developers and assorted heirs made several attempts to change the conditions of the will, and in 1957, they finally succeeded. The Dexter Asylum property was sold to Brown University.<br />
<br />
Ebenezer Dexter's will of 1824 left a property known as Neck Farm to Providence to be used for "the accommodation and support of the poor of said town... and for no other use or purpose whatever." The bulk of his estate was left to the city (then town) for the construction and upkeep of the asylum and the care of the poor. Dexter's will further called for the town to erect a stone wall around the property, forbade the town to sell Neck Farm, and specified that a town meeting of no less than "forty freemen" should be required for any action concerning the property.<br />
<br />
Before Dexter's bequest, Providence had no institution for the care of the poor. Those unable to support themselves due to age or illness were cared for at town expense in private homes by caretakers who bid for the job. A committee formed soon after Dexter's death to oversee the donation, and town meetings from 1824 until the original building's completion in 1828 discussed the construction, operation and rules of the asylum.<br />
<br />
In the mid-nineteenth century, as Providence grew, crowding became a problem at the asylum. The opening of Butler Hospital provided a new resource for the mentally ill, and some inmates were transferred there in 1847. In 1849 Thomas M. Burgess, mayor of Providence, called for either a limit on inmates or the construction of new buildings to accommodate the asylum's 190 men and women. The next year, the Board of Aldermen voted to limit inmates to 180. In 1867, the city commissioned "alterations and improvements" costing $120,000, and later sketches show an enlarged main building, but new buildings were not added. By the late 1870's, the inmate population had stabilized at around 100, where it would remain until the asylum's closing.<br />
<br />
Living conditions, as depicted in early lists of rules and punishments, work records and daily menus, were hardly desirable by present standards. Visitors were permitted only once every three weeks; male and female inmates were strictly separated; the evening meal consisted of white bread and tea; and those found guilty of drinking, "immoral conduct," "loud talking or disrespectful behavior" or faking illness to avoid work were subject to "confinement in bridewell (a jail cell) for a time not exceeding three days, and of being kept on short allowance of food." An 1843 observer reported one-quarter of the inmates insane, yet medical records reveal no attempt at treating mental illness beyond confinement in the "maniac cells."<br />
<br />
Legal wrangles between the city and the asylum began as early as 1872, when part of the stone wall around the Dexter property was knocked down during the widening of Hope Street. The city solicitor finally determined that Providence was not legally required to rebuild the wall. The city did restore the wall, but more conflicts were to come. In the 1920's, with rising real estate values and open space at a premium, city officials first tried to break up the property and sell it for house lots, then suggested making the land a public park. In 1926, the Rhode Island Supreme Court upheld the provisions of Ebenezer Dexter's will, declaring that no part of the property could be sold--much to the disgust of city Alderman Sol S. Bromson, who declared that the city could board the inmates at the Biltmore Hotel for less than it cost to maintain the asylum. The will's stipulation that "forty freemen" be present for any meeting about the asylum was altered in 1940, when the state General Assembly allowed the city council to have all powers originally bestowed upon the freemen.<br />
<br />
A 1941 article in the Providence Sunday Journal characterized the asylum as a "well-meaning legacy of a bygone day which has made time stand still." Vegetable farming had been abandoned in the late 1920's, and while dairy farming continued through the '40's, farm revenues were not enough to make the asylum self-supporting. In 1947, the battle to break the will resumed. Lawyers and genealogists searched through old records, trying to determine who had owned "Neck Farm" before Ebenezer Dexter. Could the heirs of this previous owner determine the fate of the property? Could Dexter's heirs? If the asylum was demolished, what would take its place--a housing development, a park? In 1956, Brown University President Barnaby Keeney proposed that the city sell or lease the property to the university for a gym and athletic complex: "If and when the Courts permit the City to dispose of this land, it must honor its obligation to the Dexter Trust by obtaining the best possible income for the support of the poor... the University is in a position to help."<br />
<br />
Providence Mayor Walter H. Reynolds hesitated, noting that the land could provide space for as many as 150 new home sites. But in the end the Brown proposal proved the best offer; today the University's athletic complex stands on the former asylum site on Hope Street. In October, 1957, the Dexter Asylum submitted its final report to the city of Providence. Its 129-year history had come to an end.<ref>[http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss067.htm From the Rhode Island Historical Society]</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
== Images of Dexter State Hospital ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Dexter State Hospital Image Gallery|Dexter State Hospital]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:bba3295108d83d82ca8c2cfdd837f8eb.jpg<br />
File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey,_PHOTO-COPY_OF_ENGRAVING_BY_S.S._JONES,_SHOWING_DEXTER_ASYLUM_IN_1871._-_Dexter_Asylum,_Hope_Street_and.jpg<br />
File:th.jpg<br />
File:Dexter Asylum Providence RI.jpg<br />
File:DexterAsylum.jpg<br />
File:tk94j1csy8lhc1o5.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Rhode Island]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Past Featured Article Of The Week]]</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Dexter_Asylum_Image_Gallery&diff=36361Dexter Asylum Image Gallery2019-04-18T19:19:19Z<p>CranstonAsylums: /* Historical Images */</p>
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<div>The following images are of the [[Dexter State Hospital]].<br />
<br />
==Historical Images==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Dexter.jpg<br />
File:Dexter Asylum Providence RI.jpg<br />
File:Dexter Asylum Providence RI PC.jpg<br />
File:7215527304_45cf1e2bca_z.jpg<br />
File:download.jpg<br />
File:mytest-cropped_604.jpg<br />
File:tk94j1csy8lhc1o5.jpg<br />
File:6720878493_a48c4a3066.jpg<br />
File:Dexter_Asylum,_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg<br />
File:Dexter_Farm_In_Background.jpg<br />
<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:Dexter_Farm_In_Background.jpg&diff=36360File:Dexter Farm In Background.jpg2019-04-18T19:16:33Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </p>
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<div></div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:Dexter_Asylum,_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views.jpg&diff=36359File:Dexter Asylum, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg2019-04-18T19:14:33Z<p>CranstonAsylums: </p>
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<div></div>CranstonAsylumshttps://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Dexter_Asylum&diff=36358Dexter Asylum2019-04-18T19:13:38Z<p>CranstonAsylums: /* Images of Dexter State Hospital */</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Dexter State Hospital<br />
| image = Dexter.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = 1828<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened =<br />
| closed = 1957<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location =<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Dexter Asylum<br />
*Dexter Asylum for Paupers<br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
The Dexter Asylum served as an institution for the care of the poor, aged and mentally ill of Providence from 1828 to 1957. The Asylum began through a bequest in the will of Ebenezer Knight Dexter (1773-1824), a wealthy citizen who had served on a town committee for poor relief. Dexter's gift to the town, though much needed at the time, later was seen as an anachronism--a walled and isolated "poor farm" in the midst of Providence's residential east side. Beginning in the 1920's, city officials, developers and assorted heirs made several attempts to change the conditions of the will, and in 1957, they finally succeeded. The Dexter Asylum property was sold to Brown University.<br />
<br />
Ebenezer Dexter's will of 1824 left a property known as Neck Farm to Providence to be used for "the accommodation and support of the poor of said town... and for no other use or purpose whatever." The bulk of his estate was left to the city (then town) for the construction and upkeep of the asylum and the care of the poor. Dexter's will further called for the town to erect a stone wall around the property, forbade the town to sell Neck Farm, and specified that a town meeting of no less than "forty freemen" should be required for any action concerning the property.<br />
<br />
Before Dexter's bequest, Providence had no institution for the care of the poor. Those unable to support themselves due to age or illness were cared for at town expense in private homes by caretakers who bid for the job. A committee formed soon after Dexter's death to oversee the donation, and town meetings from 1824 until the original building's completion in 1828 discussed the construction, operation and rules of the asylum.<br />
<br />
In the mid-nineteenth century, as Providence grew, crowding became a problem at the asylum. The opening of Butler Hospital provided a new resource for the mentally ill, and some inmates were transferred there in 1847. In 1849 Thomas M. Burgess, mayor of Providence, called for either a limit on inmates or the construction of new buildings to accommodate the asylum's 190 men and women. The next year, the Board of Aldermen voted to limit inmates to 180. In 1867, the city commissioned "alterations and improvements" costing $120,000, and later sketches show an enlarged main building, but new buildings were not added. By the late 1870's, the inmate population had stabilized at around 100, where it would remain until the asylum's closing.<br />
<br />
Living conditions, as depicted in early lists of rules and punishments, work records and daily menus, were hardly desirable by present standards. Visitors were permitted only once every three weeks; male and female inmates were strictly separated; the evening meal consisted of white bread and tea; and those found guilty of drinking, "immoral conduct," "loud talking or disrespectful behavior" or faking illness to avoid work were subject to "confinement in bridewell (a jail cell) for a time not exceeding three days, and of being kept on short allowance of food." An 1843 observer reported one-quarter of the inmates insane, yet medical records reveal no attempt at treating mental illness beyond confinement in the "maniac cells."<br />
<br />
Legal wrangles between the city and the asylum began as early as 1872, when part of the stone wall around the Dexter property was knocked down during the widening of Hope Street. The city solicitor finally determined that Providence was not legally required to rebuild the wall. The city did restore the wall, but more conflicts were to come. In the 1920's, with rising real estate values and open space at a premium, city officials first tried to break up the property and sell it for house lots, then suggested making the land a public park. In 1926, the Rhode Island Supreme Court upheld the provisions of Ebenezer Dexter's will, declaring that no part of the property could be sold--much to the disgust of city Alderman Sol S. Bromson, who declared that the city could board the inmates at the Biltmore Hotel for less than it cost to maintain the asylum. The will's stipulation that "forty freemen" be present for any meeting about the asylum was altered in 1940, when the state General Assembly allowed the city council to have all powers originally bestowed upon the freemen.<br />
<br />
A 1941 article in the Providence Sunday Journal characterized the asylum as a "well-meaning legacy of a bygone day which has made time stand still." Vegetable farming had been abandoned in the late 1920's, and while dairy farming continued through the '40's, farm revenues were not enough to make the asylum self-supporting. In 1947, the battle to break the will resumed. Lawyers and genealogists searched through old records, trying to determine who had owned "Neck Farm" before Ebenezer Dexter. Could the heirs of this previous owner determine the fate of the property? Could Dexter's heirs? If the asylum was demolished, what would take its place--a housing development, a park? In 1956, Brown University President Barnaby Keeney proposed that the city sell or lease the property to the university for a gym and athletic complex: "If and when the Courts permit the City to dispose of this land, it must honor its obligation to the Dexter Trust by obtaining the best possible income for the support of the poor... the University is in a position to help."<br />
<br />
Providence Mayor Walter H. Reynolds hesitated, noting that the land could provide space for as many as 150 new home sites. But in the end the Brown proposal proved the best offer; today the University's athletic complex stands on the former asylum site on Hope Street. In October, 1957, the Dexter Asylum submitted its final report to the city of Providence. Its 129-year history had come to an end.<ref>[http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss067.htm From the Rhode Island Historical Society]</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
== Images of Dexter State Hospital ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Dexter State Hospital Image Gallery|Dexter State Hospital]]}}<br />
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File:bba3295108d83d82ca8c2cfdd837f8eb.jpg<br />
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*Dexter Asylum for Paupers<br />
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==History==<br />
The Dexter Asylum served as an institution for the care of the poor, aged and mentally ill of Providence from 1828 to 1957. The Asylum began through a bequest in the will of Ebenezer Knight Dexter (1773-1824), a wealthy citizen who had served on a town committee for poor relief. Dexter's gift to the town, though much needed at the time, later was seen as an anachronism--a walled and isolated "poor farm" in the midst of Providence's residential east side. Beginning in the 1920's, city officials, developers and assorted heirs made several attempts to change the conditions of the will, and in 1957, they finally succeeded. The Dexter Asylum property was sold to Brown University.<br />
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Ebenezer Dexter's will of 1824 left a property known as Neck Farm to Providence to be used for "the accommodation and support of the poor of said town... and for no other use or purpose whatever." The bulk of his estate was left to the city (then town) for the construction and upkeep of the asylum and the care of the poor. Dexter's will further called for the town to erect a stone wall around the property, forbade the town to sell Neck Farm, and specified that a town meeting of no less than "forty freemen" should be required for any action concerning the property.<br />
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Before Dexter's bequest, Providence had no institution for the care of the poor. Those unable to support themselves due to age or illness were cared for at town expense in private homes by caretakers who bid for the job. A committee formed soon after Dexter's death to oversee the donation, and town meetings from 1824 until the original building's completion in 1828 discussed the construction, operation and rules of the asylum.<br />
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In the mid-nineteenth century, as Providence grew, crowding became a problem at the asylum. The opening of Butler Hospital provided a new resource for the mentally ill, and some inmates were transferred there in 1847. In 1849 Thomas M. Burgess, mayor of Providence, called for either a limit on inmates or the construction of new buildings to accommodate the asylum's 190 men and women. The next year, the Board of Aldermen voted to limit inmates to 180. In 1867, the city commissioned "alterations and improvements" costing $120,000, and later sketches show an enlarged main building, but new buildings were not added. By the late 1870's, the inmate population had stabilized at around 100, where it would remain until the asylum's closing.<br />
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Living conditions, as depicted in early lists of rules and punishments, work records and daily menus, were hardly desirable by present standards. Visitors were permitted only once every three weeks; male and female inmates were strictly separated; the evening meal consisted of white bread and tea; and those found guilty of drinking, "immoral conduct," "loud talking or disrespectful behavior" or faking illness to avoid work were subject to "confinement in bridewell (a jail cell) for a time not exceeding three days, and of being kept on short allowance of food." An 1843 observer reported one-quarter of the inmates insane, yet medical records reveal no attempt at treating mental illness beyond confinement in the "maniac cells."<br />
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Legal wrangles between the city and the asylum began as early as 1872, when part of the stone wall around the Dexter property was knocked down during the widening of Hope Street. The city solicitor finally determined that Providence was not legally required to rebuild the wall. The city did restore the wall, but more conflicts were to come. In the 1920's, with rising real estate values and open space at a premium, city officials first tried to break up the property and sell it for house lots, then suggested making the land a public park. In 1926, the Rhode Island Supreme Court upheld the provisions of Ebenezer Dexter's will, declaring that no part of the property could be sold--much to the disgust of city Alderman Sol S. Bromson, who declared that the city could board the inmates at the Biltmore Hotel for less than it cost to maintain the asylum. The will's stipulation that "forty freemen" be present for any meeting about the asylum was altered in 1940, when the state General Assembly allowed the city council to have all powers originally bestowed upon the freemen.<br />
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A 1941 article in the Providence Sunday Journal characterized the asylum as a "well-meaning legacy of a bygone day which has made time stand still." Vegetable farming had been abandoned in the late 1920's, and while dairy farming continued through the '40's, farm revenues were not enough to make the asylum self-supporting. In 1947, the battle to break the will resumed. Lawyers and genealogists searched through old records, trying to determine who had owned "Neck Farm" before Ebenezer Dexter. Could the heirs of this previous owner determine the fate of the property? Could Dexter's heirs? If the asylum was demolished, what would take its place--a housing development, a park? In 1956, Brown University President Barnaby Keeney proposed that the city sell or lease the property to the university for a gym and athletic complex: "If and when the Courts permit the City to dispose of this land, it must honor its obligation to the Dexter Trust by obtaining the best possible income for the support of the poor... the University is in a position to help."<br />
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Providence Mayor Walter H. Reynolds hesitated, noting that the land could provide space for as many as 150 new home sites. But in the end the Brown proposal proved the best offer; today the University's athletic complex stands on the former asylum site on Hope Street. In October, 1957, the Dexter Asylum submitted its final report to the city of Providence. Its 129-year history had come to an end.<ref>[http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss067.htm From the Rhode Island Historical Society]</ref><br />
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== Images of Dexter State Hospital ==<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Rhode Island]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institution]]<br />
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| name = Paul A Dever State School<br />
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| construction_began = 1950<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1952<br />
| closed = 2003<br />
| demolished = 2016<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Taunton, Massachusetts<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Dever State School<br />
*Myles Standish School for the Mentally Retarded<br />
*Paul A. Dever Developmental Center <br />
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==History==<br />
This campus first started out as a detention camp for military prisoners. It was one of the spots in the United States where WW2 German and Italian P.O.W.'s where held. Later the state needed more space for it's mentally disabled and converted and built buildings on the campus making it into a state hospital. In 2002 the campus was shut down.<br />
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| construction_began = 1881<br />
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| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
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The establishment of the Howard Reservation, which includes the Boys Training School, was Rhode Island’s first attempt to provide statewide social services through publicly supported and administered institutions.<br />
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In 1866, a state Board of Charities and Corrections was established for the purpose of consolidating into one “state farm” a house of correction, a state asylum for the incurably insane, and a state almshouse. The two-fold goal was to raise standards for the indigent while at the same time lifting this burden from the local towns and cities.<br />
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There was a machine shop, a carpenter shop, a printing shop, a mason shop and a blacksmith shop where the boys learned useful trades. The boys also helped construct their own environment, so the elements that compose the structures themselves reflect the philosophy that created and guided the school throughout its history. The bricks, stone and mortar, as well as the woodwork, bear silent testimony to the benefits of honest labor (or hold the ghosts of the past).<br />
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The cottages that housed the boys were designed to give them a sense of ordered and structured home life; they were both institutional and domestic at the same time. These handsome cottages, which surround a circular driveway, were built between 1881 and 1895 and combine solid rubblestone walls, brownstone quoins, and arched windows with Stick style porches.<br />
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Wholesome recreational activities were provided by the gymnasium (built in 1898). The chapel and its infirmary addition administered the necessary spiritual and physical healing needed by the wayward youth. The current chapel (now minus the infirmary wing, which was destroyed by fire in the 1970s. In some of the photos you can see the ghost of the roofline) was built in 1891 of stone, with a shingled porch. Designed by Stone, Carpenter and Wilson, it is one of the most handsome buildings at the Howard Complex.<br />
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The Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission report on Cranston states, “Although in disrepair, the buildings at Sockanosset, beautifully sited on spacious grounds behind a stone wall, are among the finest nineteenth-century institutional buildings in the state.”<ref>From the Cranston Historic District Commission</ref><br />
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Most of the state school buildings have been reused, including the dorms and chapel as part of the development named "Chapel View".<br />
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| image = Gaebler Children's Center1.jpg<br />
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| construction_began = 1955<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1955<br />
| closed = 1992<br />
| demolished = 2011<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<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 />
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==Links==<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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| closed = 1992<br />
| demolished = 2011<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 />
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==Links==<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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