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Notre-Dame de Lourdes Sanatorium
2018-01-29T01:41:08Z
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| name = Notre-Dame de Lourdes Sanatorium<br />
| image = <br />
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| established = 1931<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1931<br />
| closed = 1972<br />
| demolished = 2000<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = <br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = <br />
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| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Notre Dame de Lourdes Sanatorium at Lady Dunn<br />
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== History ==<br />
"At the beginning of the 1930s, a rampant epidemic of tuberculosis spread throughout the Northeast of New Brunswick. There being no sanatorium in that region, Bishop Chiasson called upon the Hospitallers. On May 4, 1931, Sisters La Dauversiere, Eva Albert (St. Albert), Marie de l’Assomption (Turcotte) and Leontine took possession of the residence Sir James Dunn had put at their disposal. They converted this residence into a temporary hospital and on August 5, 1932, this 90 bed sanatorium opened its doors.<br />
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In 1972, when tuberculosis had abated, this sanatorium no longer had its raison d’etre, it became the Notre Dame de Lourdes nursing home. The Sisters lived in that residence until July 2000 when the nursing home which had become obsolete, was demolished. The government built a new facility and today, it is a member of the Catholic Health International health system." Courtesy of Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph, rhsj.org<br />
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[[Category:New Brunswick]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Notre-Dame_de_Lourdes_Sanatorium&diff=34305
Notre-Dame de Lourdes Sanatorium
2018-01-29T01:40:18Z
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| established = 1931<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1931<br />
| closed = 1972<br />
| demolished = 2000<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = <br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = <br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Notre Dame de Lourdes Sanatorium at Lady Dunn<br />
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== History ==<br />
"At the beginning of the 1930s, a rampant epidemic of tuberculosis spread throughout the Northeast of New Brunswick. There being no sanatorium in that region, Bishop Chiasson called upon the Hospitallers. On May 4, 1931, Sisters La Dauversiere, Eva Albert (St. Albert), Marie de l’Assomption (Turcotte) and Leontine took possession of the residence Sir James Dunn had put at their disposal. They converted this residence into a temporary hospital and on August 5, 1932, this 90 bed sanatorium opened its doors.<br />
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In 1972, when tuberculosis had abated, this sanatorium no longer had its raison d’etre, it became the Notre Dame de Lourdes nursing home. The Sisters lived in that residence until July 2000 when the nursing home which had become obsolete, was demolished. The government built a new facility and today, it is a member of the Catholic Health International health system." Courtesy of Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph, rhsj.org<br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Willard_State_Hospital&diff=33464
Willard State Hospital
2017-09-13T17:28:03Z
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| name = Willard State Hospital<br />
| image = Willard N 6.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = Willard State Hospital<br />
| caption = <br />
| established = April 8, 1865<br />
| construction_began = July 1866<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = October 1869<br />
| closed = 1995<br />
| demolished = 1980 (Main Building)<br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]<br />
| building_style = [[Kirkbride Planned Institutions|Kirkbride Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = William H. Willcox<br />
| location = Willard, NY<br />
| architecture_style = Second Empire<br />
| peak_patient_population = 4,440 in 1953<br />
| alternate_names =</br><br />
*Willard Asylum for the Chronic Pauper Insane</br><br />
*Willard State Asylum<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
In 1853, the site was acquired for the state's first agricultural college. The college - on 440 acres of farmland in the town of Ovid, "the geographical centre and Eden of the Empire State" - opened in December 1860, but it didn't last long. Within months, its president and most of the teachers and students marched off to fight in the Civil War, and the college never reopened. It was superseded by the new state university, established in Ithaca on land donated by state Senator Ezra Cornell.<br />
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Soon afterward, the site was earmarked for the Willard Asylum for the Insane, which would represent a second and major step toward transferring responsibility for the care of the mentally ill to the state. From colonial times, the care of insane persons had been a local function. Each county operated a poorhouse, or almshouse, wherein was indiscriminately lodged a hodgepodge of dependant persons: the mad, the feebleminded, the aged and crippled, drunks, epileptics and beggars. The almshouses provided custody and shelter, but "treatment" was not in their vocabulary.<br />
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The first step toward state assumption of responsibility was the opening of the Utica Lunatic Asylum in 1843. Utica was established as a treatment facility. It was reserved for new, acute eases and was required by law to return to county custody any patient who was not discharged as recovered within two years. Still condemned to the almshouse were the incurables, who, contrary to the unreal expectations of early asylum enthusiasts, were the norm among the pauper lunatic class. Dorothea Dix, among others including the underfunded county superintendents of the poor, drew the Legislature's attention to the unspeakable plight of the chronically ill.<br />
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Finally, in 1864, the Legislature appointed Dr. Sylvester D. Willard to investigate conditions in almshouses, jails and other places where the insane were kept. His report of neglect, abuse and suffering led to the passage - six days before Lincoln's assassination - of a bill calling for a second state asylum, specifically designated for the care of the chronic insane. The asylum, located on the site of the abandoned Ovid Agricultural College, was named in memory of Dr. Willard, who died of typhoid fever just days before passage of the bill he authored.<br />
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In 1866, construction began on a large asylum building (razed in the early 1980's). Like the Eastern and Great Meadow prisons, the asylum was built on the approved institutional design of the day: a three-story center structure for administration with long wings radiating from either side for patient housing, males in one wing and females in the other.<br />
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On Oct. 13,1869, a steamboat docked at Ovid Landing and several men led a deformed, demented woman down the gangplank; Mary Rote, the asylum's first patient, had been chained for 10 years without a bed and without clothing in a cell in the Columbia County almshouse.<br />
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Three more patients, males, arrived at the dock that day, all in irons, one "in what looked like a chicken crate, 3 1/2 feet square. Many of the early patients had been considered difficult and were "quieted" by regular flogging, dousing and "pulleying" (hanging by the thumbs) in the almshouses. Within days of their arrival at the new asylum, however, they were bathed, dressed, fed and, usually, resting quietly on the wards.<br />
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Within a few months, admissions outstripped the building's 250-bed capacity, and the former college building, high on the hill overlooking the lake, was renovated as housing for higher-functioning patients. The Grandview, the oldest structure on the grounds, is still in use today. The Finger Lakes Federal Credit Union has offices in the Grandview, and DOCS uses it as a training building.<br />
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By the end of the first year, with the census approaching 700, Willard began to construct "detached buildings" away from the main building. The detached buildings housed working patients and their attendants. Work on the Sunnycroft, a salmon colored, two-story structure, began in 1872. It was rehabilitated in 1962 at a cost of $900,000 and is today enclosed within the DTC fence. Sunnycroft has eight 50-bed dormitories as well as offices and activity rooms.<br />
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Another detached structure from the 1870's, Edgemere, located outside the security fence, is now used by the DTC for training and staff functions of the type typically held in Quality of Work Life buildings.<br />
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Willard was growing rapidly. By 1877, with more than 1,500 patients, it was the largest asylum in the United States. By 1890, when the name was changed to Willard State Hospital and its function enlarged to include acute as well as chronic patients, the census hit 2,000. Willard grew outward, gathering neighboring properties for farmland, and of course kept building, eventually topping 70 buildings large and small.<br />
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Among later structures were the Birches (1934) and Hatch Building (1951); both, along with Sunnycroft, are inside the DTC security fence. The Birches (two magnificent birch trees frame the entryway) is used for parolee housing, classrooms, vocational shops and offices. Hatch is used for housing and is also the DTC administration building.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/3548/facility/willard.html http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/3548/facility/willard.html]</ref><br />
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*[http://www.asylumprojects.org/Willard.pdf Click here for a more extensive history on the hospital from the New York State archives that was written back in 1978.]<br />
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== Images of Willard State Hospital ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Willard State Hospital Image Gallery|Willard State Hospital]]}}<br />
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==Video==<br />
The following short video, created by the New York Times and Kassie Bracken, documents the cemetery and history of Willard State Hospital.<br />
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==Cemetery==<br />
In 1896 38 known Civil War Veterans buried there, as well as former inmates of the asylum. This Cemetery is inactive and maintained by the hamlet of Willard. The only graves with headstones are those of the Civil War veterans.<br />
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==Books==<br />
*''History of Willard Asylum for the Insane and the Willard State Hospital'', by Robert E Doran<br />
*''The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic'', by Darby Penney, Peter Stastny, and Lisa Rinzler<br />
*''The Inmates Of Willard 1870 to 1900 / A Genealogy Resource'', by Linda S. Stuhler<br />
*''The Architecture of Madness-Insane Asylums in the United States'' by Carla Yanni<br />
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==Links== <br />
*[http://www.willardsuitcases.com/ The Willard Suitcase Exhibit Online]<br />
*[http://www.iimhl.com/IIMHLUpdates/20080130a.pdf Several .PDF documents about the hosptial]<br />
*[http://nysasylum.com/willard/index.htm Willard State Hospital @ NYasylum.com]<br />
*[http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0404,gonnerman,50565,1.html Patient belongings found in a ward attic]<br />
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/nanguz/sets/72157605076690163/ More historical photos here.]<br />
*http://inmatesofwillard.com/<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:New York]]<br />
[[Category:Kirkbride Buildings]]<br />
[[Category:Active Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Institution With A Cemetery]]<br />
[[Category:Asylum Books]]<br />
[[Category:Articles With Videos]]<br />
[[Category:Past Featured Article Of The Week]]</div>
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2017-08-15T15:02:12Z
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Greystone Park State Hospital
2015-08-12T14:50:23Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Greystone Park State Hospital<br />
| image = Greystone1.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = Greystone Park State Hospital<br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1871<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1876<br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Kirkbirde Planned Institutions|Kirkbride Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = <br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = 7,674 in 1953<br />
| alternate_names =<br> <br />
*New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown<br />
*Morristown State Hospital<br />
*Morris Plains State Hospital <br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
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Originally opened on August 17, 1876, the hospital was known as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown. The asylum officially received the familiar Greystone Park name in 1924. The idea for such a facility was conceived in the early 1870s at the persistent lobbying of Dorothea Lynde Dix, a former school teacher who was an advocate for better health care for people with mental illnesses. Because of her efforts, the New Jersey Legislature appropriated $2.5 million dollars to obtain about 3.007 square kilometers (743 acres) of land for New Jersey’s second "lunatic asylum." Great care was taken to select a location central to the majority of New Jersey's population near Morristown, Parsippany, and Newark. The land Greystone was built on was purchased by the state in two installments between 1871 and 1872 for a total of $146,000.<br />
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At this time in history, New Jersey's state-funded mental health facilities were exceedingly overcrowded and sub par compared to neighboring states that had more facilities and room to house patients. Greystone was built, all 62,589 m² (673,706 ft²) of it, in part to relieve the only — and severely overcrowded — "lunatic asylum" in the state, which was located in Trenton, New Jersey. In fact, Greystone's initial 292 patients were transferred from the Trenton facility to Greystone based on geographic distribution, setting precedent for Greystone to become the facility that would generally accept patients whose residences were in the northern part of the state. This proved to be the very reason why Greystone quickly became overcrowded in the heavily-populated North while the Trenton facility's number of patients remained relatively stable in the sparsely populated South.<br />
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===Growing Pains===<br />
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In just four years after Greystone opened, it was already accommodating around 800 patients in a facility designed for 600. By 1887, the exercise rooms and attic space were converted to dormitories to create extra rooms for the influx of new patients. In an attempt to relieve the further overcrowding, the Dormitory Building was built behind the Main Building in 1901. It, however, wasn't enough to ameliorate the problem and thus in the same year the dining rooms on each floor had to be converted into dormitories as well. 13 years later, in 1914, the facility housed 2,412 patients, but now had an absolute maximum capacity of 1,600.<br />
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The next few decades saw a flurry of construction as supply was scrambling to meet demand. Of note was a new reception building named after the influential Greystone superintendent, Marcus Curry. Patient numbers are believed to have peaked in 1953 with an impressive 7,674 people packed into spaces designed for significantly fewer. An explanation for this dramatic increase can be found in the fact that World War II had ended and left many soldiers requiring treatment for Post-traumatic stress disorder, which included procedures such as Insulin shock therapy and Electroconvulsive therapy. Greystone was one of the few places in the country capable of treating such patients.<br />
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===Modern Day===<br />
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The 1970s and 1980s finally saw some weight lifted from this overcrowded facility because of the trend toward de-institutionalization, which was a direct effect of the use of Thorazine, one of the first drugs that was capable of treating the mentally ill. The trend continued to a point when Greystone was only a 550-bed facility when then Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman announced in 2000 that the state was going to close the facility by 2003. Some patients were slowly transferred to smaller-capacity programs, reducing the number of residential patients to approximately 450 in 2005. Then, on September 8, 2005, the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority closed a $186,565,000 bond issue on behalf of the State of New Jersey Department of Human Services for the completion of a new, 43,000 m² (460,000 ft²) Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, which is scheduled to be open in October 2007, still with a shortage of about 75 beds.<br />
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The decision to close Greystone in 2000 came about not only because of concerns for the aging buildings, but also due to the recent negative press it was receiving. Specifically, accounts of sexual assault in a hospital elevator, patients committing suicide, patients becoming pregnant, and a twice-convicted rapist escaping did not help Greystone's public image. The last patient left Greystone's Kirkbride building (the main building) in 1988 and, except for a tiny section preserved for administrative offices, the state shut off the heat, turned out the lights and walked away.<br />
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The current Greystone campus covers over a square mile and consists of 43 buildings.<br />
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===The Kirkbride===<br />
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The original Second Empire Victorian style building was 62,589 m² (673,706 total square feet). At the base of this massive building was the alleged largest continuous foundation in the United States from the time it was built until it was surpassed by the Pentagon when it was constructed in 1943. However, many other Kirkbride asylum buildings (such as the Ohio State Asylum for the Insane) also lay a claim to this fame and it has not been verified which one is true. The building has a characteristic linear arrangement, which was designed to the specifications of the Kirkbride Plan. The main building has a center section that was used for administrative purposes with three wings radiating out from the center, each about 42.7 meters (140 ft) long. They were set back from the previous one so that patients could enjoy the beauty of the outside surroundings. This was a central concept, along with moral treatment, that was the hallmark of the Kirkbride Plan for treating the mentally ill. The building form itself was meant to promote treatment and have a curative effect.<br />
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Each ward was initially set up to accommodate 20 patients. Each was furnished with a dining room, exercise room, and parlor. Most wards had wool rugs that ran the full length of the corridors. Other amenities included Victorian stuffed furniture, pianos, pictures, curtains and fresh flowers. Though not all wards were created equally. Wards that housed the most excitable patients were sparsely furnished — presumably for their own safety — with sturdy oak furniture.<br />
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Initial fees were $3.50 per week for a normal patient. For persons seeking private apartment-style living, the rent could be anywhere from $5.00 to $10.00 per week.<br />
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During the time that Greystone was built, the predominant philosophy in psychology was that the mentally ill could be cured or treated, but only if they were in an environment designed to deal with them. A major proponent of this philosophy was Thomas Story Kirkbride, who participated in the design phase of the main building at Greystone, though the two main designers were architect Samuel Sloan and Trenton State Asylum Superintendent Horace Buttolph (a friend of Kirkbride's). The building was constructed and furnished according to Kirkbride's philosophy, which proposed housing no more than 250 patients in a three story building. The rooms were to be light and airy with only two patients to a room. To reduce the likelihood of fires, Greystone and other Kirkbride asylums were constructed using stone, brick, slate and iron, using as little wood as possible. A street on the Greystone Park campus bears Buttolph's name.<br />
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The Greystone campus itself was once a self-contained community that included staff housing, a post office, fire and police stations, a working farm, and vocational and recreational facilities. It also had its own gas and water utilities and a gneiss quarry, which was the source of the Greystone building material. Below the building, a series of tunnels and rails connect the many sections. Its self-sufficient design is a testament to the legacy of the asylums of its era. Like the layout and interior of the building, the Greystone grounds with rolling greens, lavish gardens, and fountain features were designed to aid in the treatment of the mentally ill.<br />
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===Greystone in the 21st Century===<br />
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Until 2003, the future of most of the historic buildings was uncertain. Many of the buildings are vacant and need major repairs. Preservationists have been working for several years to guarantee the survival of this complex of buildings. Morris County had been negotiating with the State of New Jersey to take over vacant structures for non-profit agencies. In 2003, Morris County finalized plans to purchase about 300 acres (1.2 km²) of Greystone Park from the state for $1.00. The purchase included many of the vacant, dilapidated buildings. As of 2008 the buildings located on the land purchased by Morris County have been demolished in preparation for building a park. The new park has been named "Central Park" in an effort to distance it from the asylum's history.<br />
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Ground was ceremonially broken on November 16, 2005, for the new psychiatric hospital on the Greystone campus (behind the Kirkbride). The estimated date of opening was October 2007. However the due to many delays and problem the hospital did not receive patients until July of 2008. The new hospital is two-thirds the size of the Kirkbride building and will house about 450 patients, with another 100 patients living in hospital-run cottages on the grounds around the main building. All clients of Greystone are being transferred from their current buildings, to the new main building of the hospital. A mass move is planned thus housing for clients will be limited to the new main building as well as the cottages on the grounds.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystone_Park_Psychiatric_Hospital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystone_Park_Psychiatric_Hospital]</ref><br />
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Demolition began on the left wing of the Kirkbride on April 6th 2015, tearing down the end 2-story isolation wards and removing part of the roof of the end 4-story wards. Preservation efforts continue in an attempt to salvage the remainder of the historic building. <br />
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== Images of Greystone Park State Hospital ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Greystone Park State Hospital Image Gallery|Greystone Park State Hospital]]}}<br />
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==Videos==<br />
* Video from Kirkbrides HD ~ http://www.vimeo.com/channels/KirkbridesHD<br />
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* http://www.vimeo.com/kirkbrideshd/greystone<br />
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Grover Kemble, a former musical therapist at Greystone singing his song "They're Trying to Tear Ol' Greystone Down" in protest of the building's demolition.<br />
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==News & Updates==<br />
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The following video entitled "Greystones Last Stand - Extended Preview" was created by Antiquity Echoes.<br />
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*[http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/morris/index.ssf?/base/news-5/121912052851170.xml&coll=1 Old Greystone hospital is wrecked by vandals - Tuesday, August 19, 2008]<br />
*[http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/four_people_charged_with_break.html Four people charged with breaking into Parsippany's Greystone Psychiatric Hospital - Wednesday September 10, 2008, 10:54 AM]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Additional Links & Information==<br />
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*[http://arch.thomas-industriesinc.com/Kirkbride_Gallery_HospitalZ.htm More Aerials of Greystone Park.]<br />
*[http://www.preservegreystone.org/ Preserve Greystone]<br />
*[http://www.savegreystone.org/ Greystone Park Historical Project]<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystone_Park_Psychiatric_Hospital Greystone @ Wikipedia]<br />
*[http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/greystonepark/ Greystone @ Kirkbride Buildings]<br />
*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~asylums/morristown_nj/index.html Greystone @ Historic Asylum]<br />
*[http://www.nj.gov/humanservices/dmhs/oshm/gpph/ NJ Dept of Health Official Website]<br />
*[http://www.nj.gov/humanservices/dmhs/oshm/gpph/GPPH_new_beginnings.ppt A Power Point slide show of the new hospital]<br />
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The Architecture of Madness-Insane Asylums in the United States, Yanni, Carla, University of Minnesota Press (2007)<br />
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[[Category:New Jersey]]<br />
[[Category:Kirkbride Buildings]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Articles With Videos]]<br />
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File:greystoneJimPhifer.jpg
2015-05-16T04:03:23Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Image of the demolition of the Kirkbride at Greystone Park from Sunday May 11th 2015. Image taken by drone pilot Jim Phifer and courtesy of Greystone's Last Stand.</p>
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<div>Image of the demolition of the Kirkbride at Greystone Park from Sunday May 11th 2015. Image taken by drone pilot Jim Phifer and courtesy of Greystone's Last Stand.</div>
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Greystone Park State Hospital
2015-04-09T15:53:55Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Greystone Park State Hospital<br />
| image = Greystone1.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = Greystone Park State Hospital<br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1871<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1876<br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]] <br />
| building_style = [[Kirkbirde Planned Institutions|Kirkbride Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = <br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = 7,674 in 1953<br />
| alternate_names =<br> <br />
*New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown<br />
*Morristown State Hospital<br />
*Morris Plains State Hospital <br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
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Originally opened on August 17, 1876, the hospital was known as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown. The asylum officially received the familiar Greystone Park name in 1924. The idea for such a facility was conceived in the early 1870s at the persistent lobbying of Dorothea Lynde Dix, a former school teacher who was an advocate for better health care for people with mental illnesses. Because of her efforts, the New Jersey Legislature appropriated $2.5 million dollars to obtain about 3.007 square kilometers (743 acres) of land for New Jersey’s second "lunatic asylum." Great care was taken to select a location central to the majority of New Jersey's population near Morristown, Parsippany, and Newark. The land Greystone was built on was purchased by the state in two installments between 1871 and 1872 for a total of $146,000.<br />
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At this time in history, New Jersey's state-funded mental health facilities were exceedingly overcrowded and sub par compared to neighboring states that had more facilities and room to house patients. Greystone was built, all 62,589 m² (673,706 ft²) of it, in part to relieve the only — and severely overcrowded — "lunatic asylum" in the state, which was located in Trenton, New Jersey. In fact, Greystone's initial 292 patients were transferred from the Trenton facility to Greystone based on geographic distribution, setting precedent for Greystone to become the facility that would generally accept patients whose residences were in the northern part of the state. This proved to be the very reason why Greystone quickly became overcrowded in the heavily-populated North while the Trenton facility's number of patients remained relatively stable in the sparsely populated South.<br />
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===Growing Pains===<br />
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In just four years after Greystone opened, it was already accommodating around 800 patients in a facility designed for 600. By 1887, the exercise rooms and attic space were converted to dormitories to create extra rooms for the influx of new patients. In an attempt to relieve the further overcrowding, the Dormitory Building was built behind the Main Building in 1901. It, however, wasn't enough to ameliorate the problem and thus in the same year the dining rooms on each floor had to be converted into dormitories as well. 13 years later, in 1914, the facility housed 2,412 patients, but now had an absolute maximum capacity of 1,600.<br />
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The next few decades saw a flurry of construction as supply was scrambling to meet demand. Of note was a new reception building named after the influential Greystone superintendent, Marcus Curry. Patient numbers are believed to have peaked in 1953 with an impressive 7,674 people packed into spaces designed for significantly fewer. An explanation for this dramatic increase can be found in the fact that World War II had ended and left many soldiers requiring treatment for Post-traumatic stress disorder, which included procedures such as Insulin shock therapy and Electroconvulsive therapy. Greystone was one of the few places in the country capable of treating such patients.<br />
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===Modern Day===<br />
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The 1970s and 1980s finally saw some weight lifted from this overcrowded facility because of the trend toward de-institutionalization, which was a direct effect of the use of Thorazine, one of the first drugs that was capable of treating the mentally ill. The trend continued to a point when Greystone was only a 550-bed facility when then Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman announced in 2000 that the state was going to close the facility by 2003. Some patients were slowly transferred to smaller-capacity programs, reducing the number of residential patients to approximately 450 in 2005. Then, on September 8, 2005, the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority closed a $186,565,000 bond issue on behalf of the State of New Jersey Department of Human Services for the completion of a new, 43,000 m² (460,000 ft²) Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, which is scheduled to be open in October 2007, still with a shortage of about 75 beds.<br />
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The decision to close Greystone in 2000 came about not only because of concerns for the aging buildings, but also due to the recent negative press it was receiving. Specifically, accounts of sexual assault in a hospital elevator, patients committing suicide, patients becoming pregnant, and a twice-convicted rapist escaping did not help Greystone's public image. The last patient left Greystone's Kirkbride building (the main building) in 1988 and, except for a tiny section preserved for administrative offices, the state shut off the heat, turned out the lights and walked away.<br />
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The current Greystone campus covers over a square mile and consists of 43 buildings.<br />
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===The Kirkbride===<br />
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The original Second Empire Victorian style building was 62,589 m² (673,706 total square feet). At the base of this massive building was the alleged largest continuous foundation in the United States from the time it was built until it was surpassed by the Pentagon when it was constructed in 1943. However, many other Kirkbride asylum buildings (such as the Ohio State Asylum for the Insane) also lay a claim to this fame and it has not been verified which one is true. The building has a characteristic linear arrangement, which was designed to the specifications of the Kirkbride Plan. The main building has a center section that was used for administrative purposes with three wings radiating out from the center, each about 42.7 meters (140 ft) long. They were set back from the previous one so that patients could enjoy the beauty of the outside surroundings. This was a central concept, along with moral treatment, that was the hallmark of the Kirkbride Plan for treating the mentally ill. The building form itself was meant to promote treatment and have a curative effect.<br />
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Each ward was initially set up to accommodate 20 patients. Each was furnished with a dining room, exercise room, and parlor. Most wards had wool rugs that ran the full length of the corridors. Other amenities included Victorian stuffed furniture, pianos, pictures, curtains and fresh flowers. Though not all wards were created equally. Wards that housed the most excitable patients were sparsely furnished — presumably for their own safety — with sturdy oak furniture.<br />
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Initial fees were $3.50 per week for a normal patient. For persons seeking private apartment-style living, the rent could be anywhere from $5.00 to $10.00 per week.<br />
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During the time that Greystone was built, the predominant philosophy in psychology was that the mentally ill could be cured or treated, but only if they were in an environment designed to deal with them. A major proponent of this philosophy was Thomas Story Kirkbride, who participated in the design phase of the main building at Greystone, though the two main designers were architect Samuel Sloan and Trenton State Asylum Superintendent Horace Buttolph (a friend of Kirkbride's). The building was constructed and furnished according to Kirkbride's philosophy, which proposed housing no more than 250 patients in a three story building. The rooms were to be light and airy with only two patients to a room. To reduce the likelihood of fires, Greystone and other Kirkbride asylums were constructed using stone, brick, slate and iron, using as little wood as possible. A street on the Greystone Park campus bears Buttolph's name.<br />
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The Greystone campus itself was once a self-contained community that included staff housing, a post office, fire and police stations, a working farm, and vocational and recreational facilities. It also had its own gas and water utilities and a gneiss quarry, which was the source of the Greystone building material. Below the building, a series of tunnels and rails connect the many sections. Its self-sufficient design is a testament to the legacy of the asylums of its era. Like the layout and interior of the building, the Greystone grounds with rolling greens, lavish gardens, and fountain features were designed to aid in the treatment of the mentally ill.<br />
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===Greystone in the 21st Century===<br />
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Until 2003, the future of most of the historic buildings was uncertain. Many of the buildings are vacant and need major repairs. Preservationists have been working for several years to guarantee the survival of this complex of buildings. Morris County had been negotiating with the State of New Jersey to take over vacant structures for non-profit agencies. In 2003, Morris County finalized plans to purchase about 300 acres (1.2 km²) of Greystone Park from the state for $1.00. The purchase included many of the vacant, dilapidated buildings. As of 2008 the buildings located on the land purchased by Morris County have been demolished in preparation for building a park. The new park has been named "Central Park" in an effort to distance it from the asylum's history.<br />
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Ground was ceremonially broken on November 16, 2005, for the new psychiatric hospital on the Greystone campus (behind the Kirkbride). The estimated date of opening was October 2007. However the due to many delays and problem the hospital did not receive patients until July of 2008. The new hospital is two-thirds the size of the Kirkbride building and will house about 450 patients, with another 100 patients living in hospital-run cottages on the grounds around the main building. All clients of Greystone are being transferred from their current buildings, to the new main building of the hospital. A mass move is planned thus housing for clients will be limited to the new main building as well as the cottages on the grounds.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystone_Park_Psychiatric_Hospital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystone_Park_Psychiatric_Hospital]</ref><br />
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Demolition began on the left wing of the Kirkbride on April 6th 2015, tearing down the end 2-story isolation wards and removing part of the roof of the end 4-story wards. Preservation efforts continue in an attempt to salvage the remainder of the historic building. <br />
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== Images of Greystone Park State Hospital ==<br />
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==Videos==<br />
* Video from Kirkbrides HD ~ http://www.vimeo.com/channels/KirkbridesHD<br />
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* http://www.vimeo.com/kirkbrideshd/greystone<br />
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==News & Updates==<br />
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The following video entitled "Greystones Last Stand - Extended Preview" was created by Antiquity Echoes.<br />
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*[http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/morris/index.ssf?/base/news-5/121912052851170.xml&coll=1 Old Greystone hospital is wrecked by vandals - Tuesday, August 19, 2008]<br />
*[http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/four_people_charged_with_break.html Four people charged with breaking into Parsippany's Greystone Psychiatric Hospital - Wednesday September 10, 2008, 10:54 AM]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Additional Links & Information==<br />
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*[http://arch.thomas-industriesinc.com/Kirkbride_Gallery_HospitalZ.htm More Aerials of Greystone Park.]<br />
*[http://www.preservegreystone.org/ Preserve Greystone]<br />
*[http://www.savegreystone.org/ Greystone Park Historical Project]<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystone_Park_Psychiatric_Hospital Greystone @ Wikipedia]<br />
*[http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/greystonepark/ Greystone @ Kirkbride Buildings]<br />
*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~asylums/morristown_nj/index.html Greystone @ Historic Asylum]<br />
*[http://www.nj.gov/humanservices/dmhs/oshm/gpph/ NJ Dept of Health Official Website]<br />
*[http://www.nj.gov/humanservices/dmhs/oshm/gpph/GPPH_new_beginnings.ppt A Power Point slide show of the new hospital]<br />
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[[Category:New Jersey]]<br />
[[Category:Kirkbride Buildings]]<br />
[[Category:Active Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Articles With Videos]]<br />
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Worcester_State_Hospital_Image_Gallery&diff=29802
Worcester State Hospital Image Gallery
2015-03-16T14:10:25Z
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<div>The following are various images of [[Worcester State Hospital]].<br />
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== Historical Images ==<br />
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== Postcards ==<br />
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== Contemporary & Demolition Photos ==<br />
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== Aerial Shots ==<br />
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== New Hospital ==<br />
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[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>
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File:worcester2015.jpeg
2015-03-16T14:03:35Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Image of the reconstructed Worcester Clock Tower Memorial taken on March 15th 2015. Photo credit Rich Whiddon ||www.anatonic.com||</p>
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<div>Image of the reconstructed Worcester Clock Tower Memorial taken on March 15th 2015. Photo credit Rich Whiddon ||www.anatonic.com||</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Fairview_Hospital_and_Training_Center&diff=29708
Fairview Hospital and Training Center
2015-03-04T01:42:41Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Fairview Hospital and Training Center<br />
| image = Fairview.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1907<br />
| construction_began = 1908<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1908<br />
| closed = 2000<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Salem, OR<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = 2,600 in 1962<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Oregon Fairview Home <br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Fairview was established by the legislature in 1907 as the State Institution for the Feeble-Minded. The institution was created as a "quasi-educational institution" charged with educating the "feeble-minded" and caring for the "idiotic and epileptic." A Board of Trustees consisting of the Governor, Secretary of State, and State Treasurer was created to oversee the institution. The actual management of the institution was the job of the superintendent. The legislature appropriated $10,000 for operating expenses and $100,000 for lands and buildings. The institution was situated on a 670 acre plot southwest of Salem and construction had proceeded to the point that the first residents were transferred from the Oregon State Hospital in December, 1908.<br />
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The first residents were admitted to a compound consisting of an administration building, a dormitory building, a laundry and a boiler house. During the next two years, two more cottages were constructed with beds and accommodations for 60 persons each.<br />
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The Board of Trustees was replaced by the Board of Control in 1913. The Board of Control was created to provide centralized administration of state institutions. In new enabling legislation, the institution was charged with "the care and training of such feeble-minded, idiotic, epileptic, and defective persons as have been or may hereafter be committed to its custody." Many of the early admissions were epileptic; few were severely physically handicapped. Consequently, emphasis was placed on training for practical work.<br />
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A commitment law was passed in 1917 to standardize admissions and to insure that valuable space was used for the "feeble-minded" and not the "insane." It also stated that no one under 5 years of age was to be admitted. This age limitation was removed four years later.<br />
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Farming and husbandry were important parts of Fairview, providing both food and training for the residents. Most of the farm land had been cleared by 1920, 400 acres were used for crops and 45 acres used for orchards. Livestock consisted of hogs, chickens, and both dairy and beef cattle.<br />
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In 1923, the Board of Eugenics was formed, with the institution superintendent serving as an ex-officio board member. The organizing legislation provided for the "sterilization of all feeble-minded, insane, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sexual perverts who are a menace to society." Sterilizations required either the person's consent or a judicial proceeding resulting in a court order. By 1929, 300 residents had been sterilized.<br />
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The connection between parole and sterilization was not explicit, but two-thirds of the residents that were sterilized were paroled, freeing up valuable bed space in the institution.<br />
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The Depression and World War II combined to limit program expansion and capital improvement. In 1940 employees were moved to housing separate from buildings used by the patients. By the end of the 1946 biennium, conditions were improving, more staff were available due to the conclusion of the war and the passage of the State Civil Service and Retirement Acts. A tuberculosis control program was also instituted at this time. In 1948, the first dormitory built in 16 years still left the Institution overcrowded as a result of the lack of construction. The farm showed an increase in production over the previous decades. In 1957, a new administration building and the gymnasium-auditorium, first requested in 1913, were built.<br />
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Following World War II, Fairview's resident profile began to change. Medical care techniques improved nationally, greatly increasing the life expectancy of severely handicapped patients. The number of residents with severe emotional/social handicaps also increased. These two factors contributed to a steady decrease in the median mental age of the institutional population and changed Fairview's emphasis from education to care. The 1953 biennial report stated that: "We [Fairview] are no longer used as a school for those who have only educational difficulty, as this is being taken care of in the public school system."<br />
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Fairview began providing out-patient services to mentally ill persons not in its custody in 1954. Organizational changes in the late fifties brought new duties to Fairview. Departments of Psychology, Social Service, and Recreation were added to the staff. Diagnostic clinics and parents' conferences were provided as community services. Medical services and dietary standards were brought into conformance with U.S. Department of Agriculture requirements.<br />
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The decline in the incidence of tuberculosis made it impractical to maintain a separate ward, and the few tubercular patients at Fairview were transferred to the tuberculosis ward at the Oregon State Hospital.<br />
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Research funds in the amount of $14,000,000 were provided by the 1957 Legislature. This funding was dedicated to research in the treatment and training of mentally retarded persons. Fairview staff viewed this funding and the subsequent research as instrumental in providing high levels of service to retarded Oregonians.<br />
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In 1961, the institution reorganized into two broad units, business services and medical (patient) services. Fairview also began using the "Unit System," interdisciplinary teams, consisting of a physician, chairman, psychologist, social worker, and nursing supervisor, to serve residents' needs. Several new services were added at the same time. Visiting and consulting physicians were added to the medical staff and the patient record-keeping system was established by the newly-appointed medical records librarian. Chaplains were hired to meet the spiritual needs of the residents. A research laboratory was established. Approximately 250 patients were transferred from Fairview to Columbia Park Training Center in The Dalles between June and October 1963.<br />
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Oregon Fairview Home was renamed Fairview Hospital and Training Center in 1965. Epileptics were no longer cared for at Fairview and were either released to community care or transferred to the State Hospital.<br />
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Several new programs were initiated during the late sixties. The Physical Rehabilitation Center opened in March 1966. The Foster Grandparent program began during the 1966-68 biennium with 39 senior citizens serving 78 young residents. Major changes in the Farm and Grounds program took place, eliminating orchard, beef, and general farm activities. Improvements were made in the vocational training programs in poultry processing, grounds and greenhouse, and construction of the new food service building commenced.<br />
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In 1969, the Board of Control was dissolved and the Mental Health Division placed under the newly created Executive Department. Legal representation for persons involved in commitment hearings was required by a 1969 law.<br />
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During the following decade there were revolutionary advancement in methods of teaching residents with developmental disabilities. Federal funds became available to provide additional program opportunities to Fairview residents. These changes required increases in staff, especially those with educational backgrounds.<br />
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The last of the formerly extensive farming operations ceased with the closing of the poultry operations on June 30, 1977. The raising of hogs was discontinued two years earlier, ceasing operations that had provided all the ham, bacon, sausage, eggs, broilers, and pork chops used by Fairview. These operations slowly fell into red ink, becoming less appropriate for training programs as the average capability level of the residents declined.<br />
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A great change in the use of physical facilities also took place during this decade with the conversion of the apartments from housing of staff to housing of residents who were undergoing pre-release training. Four of the houses were also used in program training. Prigg Cottage was turned over to Corrections and these residents were assigned to the main campus on or before June 1976. Columbia Park Hospital was closed on June 30, 1977, and its residents were transferred to Fairview.<br />
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A court decision upheld a 1973 national re-definition of "mental retardation" that lowered the threshold I.Q. for mental retardation from 80 to 70. This resulted in the possible release of up to 84 residents who became ineligible for continued services. In addition, Fairview instituted an intensive 3-6 month community living skills training program for those residents who had chosen to wait for release.<br />
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During 1979, the facility changed its name from Fairview Hospital and Training Center to Fairview Training Center. In 1983, the U.S. Justice Department announced an investigation into the physical well-being of residents. The Institution was also put on alert that on-going inspections could be expected.<br />
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In July 1984, the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) warned Fairview that federal funds would be cut within 180 days if federal standards were not met. As a result the state proposed a $25.3 million improvement plan and the funding cut-off was averted.<br />
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From March to June 1985, the U.S. Justice Department stated that it found life-threatening conditions at Fairview. State officials contended that federal officials ignored improvements. During this time the first Qualified Mental Retardation Professionals (QMRP) were classified and the Foster Grandparent Program celebrated its 20th anniversary.<br />
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The year also brought a suit filed by the U.S. Justice Department, the Association of Retarded Citizens (ARC) and two parents of Fairview residents against the State over Fairview's conditions. Within a year the Health Care Financing Administration cut off Medicaid funding over safety and staffing issues. An additional 600 employees were also hired during this time. By June, the House had approved Fairview funds and 30 million supplemental dollars were approved by the Joint Ways and Means Committee for Fairview improvements and development of community programs.<br />
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By August 1987, Medicaid funds were restored after a 14 week loss of $7 million and Fairview staff continued to work toward improving issues at the Training Center. During September 1988, HCFA revisited Fairview verifying that some of the immediate problems had been corrected, yet deciding to cut off Medicaid funds due to a concern about "Active Treatment" plans. The State appealed this decision.<br />
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In December, Governor Goldschmidt proposed spending an additional $14.7 million on Fairview and the development of Community Placement Programs during 1989-91, also recommending the reduction of client population by 50% to less than 500 by June 30, 1992. A congressional delegation urged HCFA to settle.<br />
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Finally an agreement was announced promising Fairview funds for a plan that establishes benchmarks for improvement. Federal reviews followed at six month intervals while the Justice Department and the Association of Retarded Citizens of Oregon's law suits remained pending. (Settlement was reached in July of 1989.)<br />
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Until its closure in July 2000, Fairview had served the mentally and physically handicapped for nearly a century. Its few remaining residents were transferred to group homes or returned to live with their families. Plans to utilize the abandoned grounds of Fairview include three "pedestrian-oriented residential neighborhoods" with large green spaces and a school or a campus of light commercial businesses. <br />
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A fire in 2010 destroyed one of the cottage buildings in the center of campus. As the vacant building fell into disrepair, the state fought to find a use for the property. Several of the newer style medical buildings were demolished. Finally, after several more failed attempts for reuse of the property, the remainder of buildings were demolished in early 2015. The historic cottage buildings were demolished in March of 2015.<br />
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==Images==<br />
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==Video==<br />
[http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianextra/2007/11/video_fairview.html| A 1959 film used by the state to educate the public about the Fairview Training Center]<br />
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==Links==<br />
*[http://www.institutionwatch.ca/cms-filesystem-action?file=research/fairview_report.pdf| History of the facility @ Institution Watch]<br />
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[[Category:Closed Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Oregon]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Peachtree_Sanitarium&diff=29409
Peachtree Sanitarium
2014-12-19T15:03:34Z
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| established = 1915<br />
| construction_began = <br />
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| opened =<br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Atlanta, GA<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = ~200<br />
| alternate_names =<br />
}}*Afton Villa Sanitarium<br />
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== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Georgia]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>
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Peachtree Sanitarium
2014-12-19T14:59:18Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Peachtree Sanitarium<br />
| image = peachtree.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened =<br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = <br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Atlanta, GA<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Georgia]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institutions]]</div>
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File:peachtree.jpg
2014-12-19T14:55:50Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Image of Peachtree Sanitarium from 1956. Image Courtesy of Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection, 1923-1975, Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.</p>
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<div>Image of Peachtree Sanitarium from 1956. Image Courtesy of Tracy O'Neal Photographic Collection, 1923-1975, Photographic Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.</div>
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Wakari Hospital
2014-12-10T00:49:22Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Wakari Hospital<br />
| image = wakarihospital.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt =<br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1915<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location =<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names = <br><br />
**Wakari Psychiatric Hospital<br />
<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
<br />
The Wakari Hospital opened in 1915 as a hospital for infectious diseases, and later a sanatorium. <br />
<br />
"Wakari Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is situated in the suburb of Wakari, about three kilometres north-west of the city centre. The hospital is operated by the Southern District Health Board (formerly Otago District Health Board) and is closely associated with Dunedin Public Hospital. It contains specialised psychiatric services but also cares for people with intellectual disability and people undergoing physical rehabilitation. It has units for forensic psychiatry, psychiatric emergency services, long- and short-term secure psychiatric units, MÄori mental health, physical rehabilitation and increasingly community out-reach services such as public health and district nursing. <br />
<br />
From 1915 the site was initially an infectious diseases centre, and later a sanatorium. In 1957 it was redeveloped as a general hospital, serving as the main Otago hospital while the Dunedin Hospital was being redeveloped in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, the Nurses' home was leased to the University for use as a student hostel, this being taken back with the closure of the Cherry Farm Hospital in the mid-eighties. <br />
<br />
Wakari continued as a geriatric and psychiatric care facility, the geriatric wards gradually being wound down through the nineties with government reforms to privatise long-term care. The care of the elderly assessment and rehabilitation wards were transferred back to Dunedin Hospital. Attempts were made to sell the main block of the hospital, which found occasional use as a facility for live-in drug trials and even a temporary accommodation during important rugby tests." <ref>Open Buildings, Zakout, A., Malloy, T., http://openbuildings.com/buildings/wakari-hospital-profile-35640, Accessed Dec 09 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
== Images of Wakari Hospital ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Wakari Hospital Image Gallery|Wakari Hospital]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:wakarihospital.jpg<br />
FIle:wakarihospital1957.JPG<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== Links ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:New Zealand]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Active Institution]]</div>
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Wakari Hospital
2014-12-10T00:38:21Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Wakari Hospital<br />
| image = wakarihospital.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt =<br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1915<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Dunedin, NZ<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names = <br><br />
*Wakari Psychiatric Hospital<br />
<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
<br />
The Wakari Hospital opened in 1915 as a hospital for infectious diseases, and later a sanatorium. <br />
<br />
"Wakari Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is situated in the suburb of Wakari, about three kilometres north-west of the city centre. The hospital is operated by the Southern District Health Board (formerly Otago District Health Board) and is closely associated with Dunedin Public Hospital. It contains specialised psychiatric services but also cares for people with intellectual disability and people undergoing physical rehabilitation. It has units for forensic psychiatry, psychiatric emergency services, long- and short-term secure psychiatric units, MÄori mental health, physical rehabilitation and increasingly community out-reach services such as public health and district nursing. <br />
<br />
From 1915 the site was initially an infectious diseases centre, and later a sanatorium. In 1957 it was redeveloped as a general hospital, serving as the main Otago hospital while the Dunedin Hospital was being redeveloped in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, the Nurses' home was leased to the University for use as a student hostel, this being taken back with the closure of the Cherry Farm Hospital in the mid-eighties. <br />
<br />
Wakari continued as a geriatric and psychiatric care facility, the geriatric wards gradually being wound down through the nineties with government reforms to privatise long-term care. The care of the elderly assessment and rehabilitation wards were transferred back to Dunedin Hospital. Attempts were made to sell the main block of the hospital, which found occasional use as a facility for live-in drug trials and even a temporary accommodation during important rugby tests." <ref>Open Buildings, Zakout, A., Malloy, T., http://openbuildings.com/buildings/wakari-hospital-profile-35640, Accessed Dec 09 2014.</ref><br />
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<br />
== Images of Wakari Hospital ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Wakari Hospital Image Gallery|Wakari Hospital]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:wakarihospital.jpg<br />
FIle:wakarihospital1957.JPG<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== Links ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:New Zealand]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Active Institution]]</div>
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File:wakarihospital1957.JPG
2014-12-10T00:37:39Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Aerial image of Wakari Hospital from 1957. Image courtesy of Roy Colbert, Otago Daily Times.</p>
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<div>Aerial image of Wakari Hospital from 1957. Image courtesy of Roy Colbert, Otago Daily Times.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:wakarihospital.jpg&diff=29214
File:wakarihospital.jpg
2014-12-10T00:32:55Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Image of Wakari Hospital in New Zealand. Image courtesy of openbuildings.com</p>
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<div>Image of Wakari Hospital in New Zealand. Image courtesy of openbuildings.com</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Nebraska&diff=29210
Nebraska
2014-12-08T15:38:30Z
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<div>{{infobox state<br />
| Name = Nebraska<br />
| flag = 750px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png<br />
| flagAlt = Flag of Nebraska<br />
| seal = 367px-Seal_of_Nebraska.svg.png<br />
| sealAlt = Seal of Nebraska<br />
| Motto = '''Equality''' Before the Law<br />
| Map = 286px-Map_of_USA_NE.svg.png<br />
| MapAlt = <br />
| Nickname = Cornhusker State<br />
| Capital = Lincoln<br />
| LargestCity = Omaha<br />
| Total_Area_mile = 77,421<br />
| Total_Area_km = 200,520<br />
| Width_mile = 210 <br />
| Width_km = 340<br />
| Length_mile = 430<br />
| Length_km = 690<br />
| total_state_population = 1,845,525 (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 />
* [[Hastings State Hospital Nebraska]]<br />
* [[Lincoln State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Psychiatric Institute]]<br />
* [[Norfolk State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Panhandle Mental Health Center]]<br />
<br />
== State School ==<br />
* [[Boys Training School Kearney]]<br />
* [[Girls Training School Geneva]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Industrial Home]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Institution for Feeble-minded Youth]]<br />
<br />
==Private Institutions==<br />
* [[Bethphage Mission at Axtell]]<br />
* [[Martin Luther Home]]<br />
<br />
== Sanitariums ==<br />
<br />
* [[Nebraska Hospital for Tuberculosis]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Sanitarium at Hastings]]<br />
* [[Lincoln Sanitarium]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:United States of America]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Nebraska&diff=29208
Nebraska
2014-12-08T15:34:55Z
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<div>{{infobox state<br />
| Name = Nebraska<br />
| flag = 750px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png<br />
| flagAlt = Flag of Nebraska<br />
| seal = 367px-Seal_of_Nebraska.svg.png<br />
| sealAlt = Seal of Nebraska<br />
| Motto = '''Equality''' Before the Law<br />
| Map = 286px-Map_of_USA_NE.svg.png<br />
| MapAlt = <br />
| Nickname = Cornhusker State<br />
| Capital = Lincoln<br />
| LargestCity = Omaha<br />
| Total_Area_mile = 77,421<br />
| Total_Area_km = 200,520<br />
| Width_mile = 210 <br />
| Width_km = 340<br />
| Length_mile = 430<br />
| Length_km = 690<br />
| total_state_population = 1,845,525 (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 />
* [[Hastings State Hospital Nebraska]]<br />
* [[Lincoln State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Psychiatric Institute]]<br />
* [[Norfolk State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Panhandle Mental Health Center]]<br />
<br />
== State School ==<br />
* [[Boys Training School Kearney]]<br />
* [[Girls Training School Geneva]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Industrial Home]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Institution for Feeble-Minded Youth]]<br />
<br />
==Private Institutions==<br />
* [[Bethphage Mission at Axtell]]<br />
* [[Martin Luther Home]]<br />
<br />
== Sanitariums ==<br />
<br />
* [[Nebraska Hospital for Tuberculosis]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Sanitarium at Hastings]]<br />
* [[Lincoln Sanitarium]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:United States of America]]</div>
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File:BeatriceCenter.jpg
2014-12-08T15:32:03Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Image of the Beatrice Center. Image Courtesy of Eric McKay, Norfolk Nebraska News.</p>
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<div>Image of the Beatrice Center. Image Courtesy of Eric McKay, Norfolk Nebraska News.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Nebraska_Sanitarium_at_Hastings&diff=29205
Nebraska Sanitarium at Hastings
2014-12-08T15:28:27Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Nebraska Sanitarium at Hastings<br />
| image = hastingssanitarium.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| opened = 1907-1908<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Hastings, NE<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Hastings Sanitarium<br />
*Nebraska Sanitarium<br />
}}<br />
<br />
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==History==<br />
<br />
The Nebraska Sanitarium at Hastings was built in 1907 through the help of the Seventh Day Adventists of Hastings Nebraska. The sanitarium was built on one of nine 100-foot lots purchased by the Adventists. The sanitarium was accompanied by a church, conference office, Bible supply house, the Adventists Headquarters, and intermediate school dormitories. The facility was built of brick and cost $30,000. The sanitarium boasted modern surgical treatment and hydriatic treatment and was overseen by members of the church. <ref> Past and Present of Adams County, Nebraska. William R. Burton. 1916. Volume 1. The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. Chicago, IL. Accessed December 8th 2014.</ref><br />
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In 1913, an annex was built onto the sanitarium. <br />
<br />
A 1914 description of the sanitarium reads:<br />
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"A home of health, pleasantly located in quition of the city, thoroughly modern, lighted by electrical heated by steam with hot and cold water in every room . Skilled and careful treatment, a wholesome combined with the pleasant and cheerful atmosphere of the place all make for health. Surgery a specially."<br />
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==Images==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:hastingssanitarium.jpg<br />
File:hastingssanitarium2.JPG<br />
File:hastingssanitarium3.png<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Nebraska]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>
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File:hastingssanitarium3.png
2014-12-08T15:21:35Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Advertisement for the Nebraska Sanitarium at Hastings from Western Medical Review, Volume 19, Issue 4. (Approx 1915) Image Digitized by University of Michigan. Accessed Dec 08 2014.</p>
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<div>Advertisement for the Nebraska Sanitarium at Hastings from Western Medical Review, Volume 19, Issue 4. (Approx 1915) Image Digitized by University of Michigan. Accessed Dec 08 2014.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Nebraska&diff=29203
Nebraska
2014-12-08T15:08:53Z
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<div>{{infobox state<br />
| Name = Nebraska<br />
| flag = 750px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png<br />
| flagAlt = Flag of Nebraska<br />
| seal = 367px-Seal_of_Nebraska.svg.png<br />
| sealAlt = Seal of Nebraska<br />
| Motto = '''Equality''' Before the Law<br />
| Map = 286px-Map_of_USA_NE.svg.png<br />
| MapAlt = <br />
| Nickname = Cornhusker State<br />
| Capital = Lincoln<br />
| LargestCity = Omaha<br />
| Total_Area_mile = 77,421<br />
| Total_Area_km = 200,520<br />
| Width_mile = 210 <br />
| Width_km = 340<br />
| Length_mile = 430<br />
| Length_km = 690<br />
| total_state_population = 1,845,525 (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 />
* [[Hastings State Hospital Nebraska]]<br />
* [[Lincoln State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Psychiatric Institute]]<br />
* [[Norfolk State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Panhandle Mental Health Center]]<br />
<br />
== State School ==<br />
* [[Boys Training School Kearney]]<br />
* [[Girls Training School Geneva]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Industrial Home]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Institution for Feeble-minded Youth]]<br />
* [[Beatrice State Home]]<br />
<br />
==Private Institutions==<br />
* [[Bethphage Mission at Axtell]]<br />
* [[Martin Luther Home]]<br />
<br />
== Sanitariums ==<br />
<br />
* [[Nebraska Hospital for Tuberculosis]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Sanitarium at Hastings]]<br />
* [[Lincoln Sanitarium]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:United States of America]]</div>
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File:hastingssanitarium2.JPG
2014-12-08T14:54:02Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Postcard of Hastings Sanitarium in Nebraska. Image Date 1911.</p>
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<div>Postcard of Hastings Sanitarium in Nebraska. Image Date 1911.</div>
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File:hastingssanitarium.jpg
2014-12-08T14:49:19Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Postcard of Hastings Sanitarium in Nebraska. Image Date Unknown.</p>
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<div>Postcard of Hastings Sanitarium in Nebraska. Image Date Unknown.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=St._Peter_State_Hospital&diff=29194
St. Peter State Hospital
2014-12-05T15:28:54Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = St. Peter State Hospital<br />
| image = Pf052615.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = St. Peter State Hospital<br />
| caption = <br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = 1866<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1866<br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]<br />
| building_style = [[Kirkbirde Planned Institutions|Kirkbride Plan]] (Mostly Demolished)<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = St. Peter, Minnesota<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br> <br />
*Minnesota Asylum for the Insane<br />
*St. Peter Regional Treatment Center <br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
The St. Peter State Hospital began in March 1866 when the Minnesota State Legislature responded to the need for an asylum by passing "an act for the establishment and location of a hospital for the insane in the state of Minnesota, and to provide for the regulation of the same." The act also created a board of trustees and appointed six commissioners responsible for recommending a permanent location for the state's hospital. A number of Minnesota communities vied for the facility and each claimed to be the most attractive village. However, on 1 July 1866, the commissioners made their recommendation. They opted for St. Peter as the permanent site. Citizens of that community purchased a 210 acre farm for $7,000 which was given to the state for the purpose. Shortly after the commission's report was filed, the board of trustees purchased the Ewing house in St. Peter for temporary use until construction was completed on the permanent hospital. The board of trustees estimated that the refurbished Ewing house with accommodations for fifty patients would exceed the state's demands for years.<br />
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The Minnesota State Hospital for Insane accepted its first patient on 6 December 1866 and received more patients from Iowa on 28 December. In its first annual report to the governor, the board referred to the problem that would reoccur in the hospital's history for over the next 100 years. The original estimates of the board had proven incorrect as overcrowding had become the foremost problem two months after the hospital opened. In the spring of 1867, after a reorganization of the board of trustees, construction began on a temporary frame building adjacent to the Ewing property and when completed would house an additional fifty patients. In 1867, the board adopted the "Linear Plan" for the permanent hospital consisting of a center building with attached sections.<br />
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During the following ten years, construction proceeded on the permanent hospital while the board reluctantly expanded the accommodations of the temporary hospital to relieve the problem related to the increasing patient population. By 1876, construction ended. The new facility was capable of accommodating 500 patients and the valuation of the property was placed at $563,251.69. Because of the increasing number of patients, the hospital needed to continue operating the temporary buildings even though they needed extensive remodeling.<br />
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The problem of overcrowding was exacerbated in by a disaster on 15 November 1880 when fire destroyed the hospital's north wing before being contained. There was no insurance to cover the loss, and officials voiced concern over the possibility of another disaster. In response, the board recommended fireproofing the entire complex by replacing gas lights for electric lights and abandoning the temporary wood buildings.<br />
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Throughout the 1880s the hospital expanded. The north wing was rebuilt, two detached structures were erected to the north and south of the main facility, tunnels were built beneath the complex for the distribution of food, and a piggery, corn crib, and greenhouse were built. By 1892, the hospital's farm had expanded from the initial size to 810 acres, and numerous patients helped work the land. Besides providing food and employment opportunities, the farm was an economic necessity. Produce raised by patients and staff lowered the institution's food costs. However, the building projects had little effect in abating the institution's overcrowding by 1896. In response to similar conditions at the State Hospitals in Rochester and Fergus Falls, two new hospitals opened in Hastings and Anoka, Minnesota.<br />
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In 1906, the Board of Control, the new body of directors, recommended that patients considered dangerous or criminally insane be placed in a separate building located near one of the mental institutions where they could be given proper care. Legislators agreed and appropriated funds for a facility in St. Peter. By the spring of 1911, four separate institutions existed on the St. Peter campus: the mental hospital, the detention hospital, the hospital for tuberculosis insane, and the newly completed hospital for the criminally insane.<br />
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World War I necessitated stringent economic measures. Reductions in food, clothing, and other supplies mean that only the immediate needs of the patients could be satisfied. Inflation and a shortage of labor also affected the hospital, and in 1918, the influenza epidemic caused the death of thirty-two patients and one employee severely impacted the institution's population.<br />
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The postwar period brought prosperity, expansion, and new methods of treatment. Even the Great Depression had little negative impact on the institution because the Works Progress Administration provided funds for construction of a needed addition to the hospital's facilities. By the summer of 1939, the Board of Control was abolished and the Division of Public Institutions was created. This division within the Department of Social Security was responsible for the administration of the state's institutions while the remaining duties of the Board of Control were transferred to the Department of Social Welfare. After World War II, the institution continued to expand its facilities and enlarge its staff. By 1972, the St. Peter State Hospital consisted of over sixty buildings.<ref>From the Minnesota State University, Mankato, Memorial Library, Southern Minnesota Historical Center web page</ref><br />
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<br />
== Images of St. Peter Hospital ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[St. Peter State Hospital Image Gallery|St. Peter State Hospital]]}}<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Pf101189.jpg<br />
File:Stpeter2.jpg<br />
File:StPeter Minn.jpg<br />
File:StPeter Minn NurseHome.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Cemetery==<br />
The location of the earliest cemetery at the St. Peter State Hospital is not known. The cemetery had wooden crosses for markers and a prairie fire erased all landmarks in a large area and the location of the cemetery was never found. The second hospital cemetery was in what is now Resurrection Cemetery, the cemetery & land on this side of the highway was later sold by the state but the cemetery continued as a Lutheran cemetery named Resurrection Cemetery. The third cemetery is located on the grounds of the current hospital but up on top of the hill from the hospital campus. All of these graves now have monuments with names as well as their original markers with numbers. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Video==<br />
The following video was shot by the Minnesota Historical Society. It shows the inside of the museum and also give a view of some of the un-restored sections of the hospital. <br />
<br />
<videoflash type="vimeo">23931320</videoflash><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Minnesota]]<br />
[[Category:Kirkbride Buildings]]<br />
[[Category:Active Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Articles With Videos]]<br />
[[Category:Institution With A Cemetery]]<br />
[[Category:Past Featured Article Of The Week]]</div>
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Nebraska
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<div>{{infobox state<br />
| Name = Nebraska<br />
| flag = 750px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png<br />
| flagAlt = Flag of Nebraska<br />
| seal = 367px-Seal_of_Nebraska.svg.png<br />
| sealAlt = Seal of Nebraska<br />
| Motto = '''Equality''' Before the Law<br />
| Map = 286px-Map_of_USA_NE.svg.png<br />
| MapAlt = <br />
| Nickname = Cornhusker State<br />
| Capital = Lincoln<br />
| LargestCity = Omaha<br />
| Total_Area_mile = 77,421<br />
| Total_Area_km = 200,520<br />
| Width_mile = 210 <br />
| Width_km = 340<br />
| Length_mile = 430<br />
| Length_km = 690<br />
| total_state_population = 1,845,525 (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 />
* [[Hastings State Hospital Nebraska]]<br />
* [[Lincoln State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Psychiatric Institute]]<br />
* [[Norfolk State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Panhandle Mental Health Center]]<br />
<br />
== State School ==<br />
* [[Boys Training School Kearney]]<br />
* [[Girls Training School Geneva]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Industrial Home]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Institution for Feeble-minded Youth]]<br />
<br />
==Private Institutions==<br />
* [[Bethphage Mission at Axtell]]<br />
* [[Martin Luther Home]]<br />
<br />
== Sanitariums ==<br />
<br />
* [[Nebraska Hospital for Tuberculosis]]<br />
* [[Nebraska Sanitarium at Hastings]]<br />
* [[Lincoln Sanitarium]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:United States of America]]</div>
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Glencliff State Sanatorium
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name =<br />
| image = glencliff.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt =<br />
| caption =<br />
| established = 1901<br />
| construction_began =<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1909<br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = East Haverhill, NH<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Glencliff Home for the Elderly<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In New Hampshire, the state legislature authorized construction of a sanatorium in 1901, a year when the state's annual death rate from tuberculosis hit 194 per 100,000 and tuberculosis was the most common cause of death for persons aged 20 to 40. Had tuberculin skin testing been available at the time, virtually every adult would have tested positive—an indication of either latent infection or active disease.<br />
<br />
This is in stark contrast to the current situation in New Hampshire. Today, the annual incidence of tuberculosis is 1.6 per 100,000, and fewer than 10% of DMS students have positive tuberculin skin tests (and most of those who do are foreign-born students from countries where tuberculosis is still common). Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center admits only between one and four patients a year with active tuberculosis, and most of them recover after six months of treatment. Dartmouth medical students and residents are more likely to see patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic inflammatory disease, than with tuberculosis.<br />
<br />
The New Hampshire State Sanatorium was located at Glencliff because the site's elevation of 1,650 feet would provide the fresh mountain air that was then thought to be therapeutic for tuberculosis patients. Construction on the facility was completed in the summer of 1909, and the first patient was admitted on September 14 of that year. Dr. John M. Gile, a professor of clinical surgery and later the dean of Dartmouth Medical School, was the first consulting surgeon at the sanatorium, and Dr. Elmer Carleton, also a member of the DMS faculty, was the consulting laryngologist. Most patients came from the major industrial centers in southern New Hampshire, such as Manchester, Concord, and Nashua, but any resident of the state identified as having active tuberculosis would be considered for admission.<br />
<br />
Admission required that the patient first be seen by a designated practitioner in Claremont, Dover, Keene, or Manchester or at the sanatorium itself. These physicians were asked to consider whether the applicant presented "a reasonable prospect of improvement or cure" before they referred the patient to the superintendent of Glencliff for admission. Patients with an unfavorable prognosis were usually turned down, though sometimes they would be accepted if it was thought that small children in the patient's home were at risk of infection.<br />
<br />
In general, Glencliff did not accept children, although the cutoff for adulthood at the time was 14 years. So-called "pre-tuberculous" and tuberculous children were treated at another New Hampshire facility, the Pembroke Sanatorium, beginning in the early 1920s.<br />
<br />
Glencliff's patients came from all social classes and all professions and included doctors, hospital superintendents, factory workers, steamfitters, and junk dealers. For many patients, their stay lasted years, sometimes even decades. A Chinese exchange student at Dartmouth stayed for two years. One patient remained at the sanatorium for 23 years.<br />
<br />
In the early 1900s, Glencliff was a self-sufficient community, designed to maintain the isolation that was part of the sanatorium concept. Its medical facilities included a hospital unit, an open ward, an x-ray facility, an operating room, and a microbiology laboratory. The campus encompassed 500 acres and included a farm with pigs and cows and a vast vegetable garden. The institution made its own maple syrup, pasteurized its own milk, and sent summer vegetables to be canned at the New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord. Electricity, water, and sewage disposal were all provided by the nearby town of Glencliff. Coal was brought to the base of the mountain by train until the railroad was discontinued in 1952. The sanatorium even had its own shortwave radio station.<br />
<br />
By 1932, more invasive surgical procedures were being used to treat tuberculosis at Glencliff, specifically extrapleural thoracoplasty. This procedure involved the removal of several ribs to bring the chest wall down to the lung and thereby collapse the tuberculous cavity. Patients were instructed to lie on a pillow to push the chest wall against the lung after the ribs had been removed. At least one Glencliff patient subjected to this treatment says that this procedure was very painful and sometimes led to temporary addiction to opiates. Thoracoplasty was observed to reduce the one-year mortality of cavitary tuberculosis from 80% to between 14% and 27%.<br />
<br />
Many of the surgical collapse procedures were performed in the single operating room at Glencliff and were done by physicians from Dartmouth, as well as by two surgeons who traveled up periodically from Boston. Dr. Dawson Tyson from Dartmouth performed phrenic nerve resections, thoracoplasties, and extrapleural pneumonolyses during his involvement with the statewide program for the surgical treatment of tuberculosis in the early 1940s. During this time, Glencliff also used Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital's pathology and autopsy services, as well as consulting with other specialists from Dartmouth.<br />
<br />
Beginning in 1936, intramuscular gold injections were also tried briefly, but were soon discontinued due to the treatment's toxicity and the dif- ficulty of obtaining this German preparation during World War II.<br />
<br />
During the pre-antibiotic era at Glencliff, death was a common outcome for patients with chest x-rays that showed the distinct cavities indicative of far advanced disease. The annual reports filed by the institution include statistics on admissions, disease classifications, and deaths—from which it can be calculated that overall mortality rates during the period from 1909 to 1944 ranged from 5% to 22%. An average of 20 patients a year had far advanced pulmonary tuberculosis, and the mortality rate in that group ranged most years between 25% and 45%. And the death rate remained high among patients with far advanced disease even after the introduction of lung-collapse therapy. But the outlook for patients with tuberculosis changed dramatically after the 1944 discovery of streptomycin, the 1946 discovery of paraaminosalicylic acid (PAS), and especially the 1952 introduction of isoniazid.<br />
<br />
By 1970, other potent new drugs, including rifampin, were also available. That year, Glencliff sent its last active tuberculosis patient to Mary Hitchcock Hospital, ending the sanatorium movement in New Hampshire. The once-flourishing U.S. network of 420 sanatoriums was soon virtually abandoned. Many of the hospitals were eventually converted to other uses, though some were left empty for fear of contagion. In 1970, the Glencliff Sanatorium was converted into the Glencliff Home for the Elderly. Through the efforts of Sandra Knapp, Glenclifff's administrator from 1979 through 2002, and the current administrator, Todd Bickford, many of the unique architectural features of the original facility have been preserved. The main patient building still has its floor-to-ceiling windows that admit ample light and the sturdy columns that used to support the screened porches which were used for the open-air treatments (these spaces have now been framed in, however, to create additional patient rooms).<br />
<br />
== Images of Glencliff State Sanatorium ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Glencliff State Sanatorium Image Gallery|Glencliff State Sanatorium]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:New Hampshire State Sanitarium.jpg<br />
File:glencliff1.jpg<br />
File:Glencliff-NH-sanatorium.jpg<br />
File:glencliff2.JPG<br />
File:glencliff12.jpg<br />
File:NH01107.JPG<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:New Hampshire]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Preserved Institution]]</div>
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<div>The following are various images of [[Glencliff State Sanatorium]].<br />
<br />
== Historical Images ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:mountain_aerie_14.jpg<br />
File:mountain_aerie_03.jpg<br />
File:glencliff1.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== Postcards ==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
File:New Hampshire State Sanitarium.jpg<br />
File:Glencliff-NH-sanatorium.jpg<br />
File:glencliff2.JPG<br />
File:mountain_aerie_01.jpg<br />
File:glencliff12.jpg<br />
File:NH01107.JPG<br />
File:glencliff3.JPG<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>
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<div>Interior of patient porch at Glencliff Sanatorium. Image from 1930's and courtesy of © 2014 Trustees of Dartmouth College</div>
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Glencliff State Sanatorium
2014-12-03T15:47:17Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name =<br />
| image = glencliff.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt =<br />
| caption =<br />
| established = 1901<br />
| construction_began =<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1909<br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = East Haverhill, NH<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Glencliff Home for the Elderly<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In New Hampshire, the state legislature authorized construction of a sanatorium in 1901, a year when the state's annual death rate from tuberculosis hit 194 per 100,000 and tuberculosis was the most common cause of death for persons aged 20 to 40. Had tuberculin skin testing been available at the time, virtually every adult would have tested positive—an indication of either latent infection or active disease.<br />
<br />
This is in stark contrast to the current situation in New Hampshire. Today, the annual incidence of tuberculosis is 1.6 per 100,000, and fewer than 10% of DMS students have positive tuberculin skin tests (and most of those who do are foreign-born students from countries where tuberculosis is still common). Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center admits only between one and four patients a year with active tuberculosis, and most of them recover after six months of treatment. Dartmouth medical students and residents are more likely to see patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic inflammatory disease, than with tuberculosis.<br />
<br />
The New Hampshire State Sanatorium was located at Glencliff because the site's elevation of 1,650 feet would provide the fresh mountain air that was then thought to be therapeutic for tuberculosis patients. Construction on the facility was completed in the summer of 1909, and the first patient was admitted on September 14 of that year. Dr. John M. Gile, a professor of clinical surgery and later the dean of Dartmouth Medical School, was the first consulting surgeon at the sanatorium, and Dr. Elmer Carleton, also a member of the DMS faculty, was the consulting laryngologist. Most patients came from the major industrial centers in southern New Hampshire, such as Manchester, Concord, and Nashua, but any resident of the state identified as having active tuberculosis would be considered for admission.<br />
<br />
Admission required that the patient first be seen by a designated practitioner in Claremont, Dover, Keene, or Manchester or at the sanatorium itself. These physicians were asked to consider whether the applicant presented "a reasonable prospect of improvement or cure" before they referred the patient to the superintendent of Glencliff for admission. Patients with an unfavorable prognosis were usually turned down, though sometimes they would be accepted if it was thought that small children in the patient's home were at risk of infection.<br />
<br />
In general, Glencliff did not accept children, although the cutoff for adulthood at the time was 14 years. So-called "pre-tuberculous" and tuberculous children were treated at another New Hampshire facility, the Pembroke Sanatorium, beginning in the early 1920s.<br />
<br />
Glencliff's patients came from all social classes and all professions and included doctors, hospital superintendents, factory workers, steamfitters, and junk dealers. For many patients, their stay lasted years, sometimes even decades. A Chinese exchange student at Dartmouth stayed for two years. One patient remained at the sanatorium for 23 years.<br />
<br />
In the early 1900s, Glencliff was a self-sufficient community, designed to maintain the isolation that was part of the sanatorium concept. Its medical facilities included a hospital unit, an open ward, an x-ray facility, an operating room, and a microbiology laboratory. The campus encompassed 500 acres and included a farm with pigs and cows and a vast vegetable garden. The institution made its own maple syrup, pasteurized its own milk, and sent summer vegetables to be canned at the New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord. Electricity, water, and sewage disposal were all provided by the nearby town of Glencliff. Coal was brought to the base of the mountain by train until the railroad was discontinued in 1952. The sanatorium even had its own shortwave radio station.<br />
<br />
By 1932, more invasive surgical procedures were being used to treat tuberculosis at Glencliff, specifically extrapleural thoracoplasty. This procedure involved the removal of several ribs to bring the chest wall down to the lung and thereby collapse the tuberculous cavity. Patients were instructed to lie on a pillow to push the chest wall against the lung after the ribs had been removed. At least one Glencliff patient subjected to this treatment says that this procedure was very painful and sometimes led to temporary addiction to opiates. Thoracoplasty was observed to reduce the one-year mortality of cavitary tuberculosis from 80% to between 14% and 27%.<br />
<br />
Many of the surgical collapse procedures were performed in the single operating room at Glencliff and were done by physicians from Dartmouth, as well as by two surgeons who traveled up periodically from Boston. Dr. Dawson Tyson from Dartmouth performed phrenic nerve resections, thoracoplasties, and extrapleural pneumonolyses during his involvement with the statewide program for the surgical treatment of tuberculosis in the early 1940s. During this time, Glencliff also used Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital's pathology and autopsy services, as well as consulting with other specialists from Dartmouth.<br />
<br />
Beginning in 1936, intramuscular gold injections were also tried briefly, but were soon discontinued due to the treatment's toxicity and the dif- ficulty of obtaining this German preparation during World War II.<br />
<br />
During the pre-antibiotic era at Glencliff, death was a common outcome for patients with chest x-rays that showed the distinct cavities indicative of far advanced disease. The annual reports filed by the institution include statistics on admissions, disease classifications, and deaths—from which it can be calculated that overall mortality rates during the period from 1909 to 1944 ranged from 5% to 22%. An average of 20 patients a year had far advanced pulmonary tuberculosis, and the mortality rate in that group ranged most years between 25% and 45%. And the death rate remained high among patients with far advanced disease even after the introduction of lung-collapse therapy. But the outlook for patients with tuberculosis changed dramatically after the 1944 discovery of streptomycin, the 1946 discovery of paraaminosalicylic acid (PAS), and especially the 1952 introduction of isoniazid.<br />
<br />
By 1970, other potent new drugs, including rifampin, were also available. That year, Glencliff sent its last active tuberculosis patient to Mary Hitchcock Hospital, ending the sanatorium movement in New Hampshire. The once-flourishing U.S. network of 420 sanatoriums was soon virtually abandoned. Many of the hospitals were eventually converted to other uses, though some were left empty for fear of contagion. In 1970, the Glencliff Sanatorium was converted into the Glencliff Home for the Elderly. Through the efforts of Sandra Knapp, Glenclifff's administrator from 1979 through 2002, and the current administrator, Todd Bickford, many of the unique architectural features of the original facility have been preserved. The main patient building still has its floor-to-ceiling windows that admit ample light and the sturdy columns that used to support the screened porches which were used for the open-air treatments (these spaces have now been framed in, however, to create additional patient rooms).<br />
<br />
== Images of Glencliff State Sanatorium ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Glencliff State Sanatorium Image Gallery|Glencliff State Sanatorium]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:New Hampshire State Sanitarium.jpg<br />
File:glencliff1.jpg<br />
File:Glencliff-NH-sanatorium.jpg<br />
File:glencliff2.JPG<br />
File:glencliff12.jpg<br />
File:NH01107.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:New Hampshire]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Preserved Institution]]</div>
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Glencliff State Sanatorium Image Gallery
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<div>The following are various images of [[Glencliff State Sanatorium]].<br />
<br />
== Historical Images ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:mountain_aerie_14.jpg<br />
File:mountain_aerie_03.jpg<br />
File:glencliff1.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== Postcards ==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
File:New Hampshire State Sanitarium.jpg<br />
File:Glencliff-NH-sanatorium.jpg<br />
File:glencliff2.JPG<br />
File:mountain_aerie_01.jpg<br />
File:glencliff12.jpg<br />
File:NH1107.jpg<br />
File:glencliff3.JPG<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Image Gallery]]</div>
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Glencliff State Sanatorium
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name =<br />
| image = glencliff.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt =<br />
| caption =<br />
| established = 1901<br />
| construction_began =<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1909<br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = East Haverhill, NH<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Glencliff Home for the Elderly<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In New Hampshire, the state legislature authorized construction of a sanatorium in 1901, a year when the state's annual death rate from tuberculosis hit 194 per 100,000 and tuberculosis was the most common cause of death for persons aged 20 to 40. Had tuberculin skin testing been available at the time, virtually every adult would have tested positive—an indication of either latent infection or active disease.<br />
<br />
This is in stark contrast to the current situation in New Hampshire. Today, the annual incidence of tuberculosis is 1.6 per 100,000, and fewer than 10% of DMS students have positive tuberculin skin tests (and most of those who do are foreign-born students from countries where tuberculosis is still common). Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center admits only between one and four patients a year with active tuberculosis, and most of them recover after six months of treatment. Dartmouth medical students and residents are more likely to see patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic inflammatory disease, than with tuberculosis.<br />
<br />
The New Hampshire State Sanatorium was located at Glencliff because the site's elevation of 1,650 feet would provide the fresh mountain air that was then thought to be therapeutic for tuberculosis patients. Construction on the facility was completed in the summer of 1909, and the first patient was admitted on September 14 of that year. Dr. John M. Gile, a professor of clinical surgery and later the dean of Dartmouth Medical School, was the first consulting surgeon at the sanatorium, and Dr. Elmer Carleton, also a member of the DMS faculty, was the consulting laryngologist. Most patients came from the major industrial centers in southern New Hampshire, such as Manchester, Concord, and Nashua, but any resident of the state identified as having active tuberculosis would be considered for admission.<br />
<br />
Admission required that the patient first be seen by a designated practitioner in Claremont, Dover, Keene, or Manchester or at the sanatorium itself. These physicians were asked to consider whether the applicant presented "a reasonable prospect of improvement or cure" before they referred the patient to the superintendent of Glencliff for admission. Patients with an unfavorable prognosis were usually turned down, though sometimes they would be accepted if it was thought that small children in the patient's home were at risk of infection.<br />
<br />
In general, Glencliff did not accept children, although the cutoff for adulthood at the time was 14 years. So-called "pre-tuberculous" and tuberculous children were treated at another New Hampshire facility, the Pembroke Sanatorium, beginning in the early 1920s.<br />
<br />
Glencliff's patients came from all social classes and all professions and included doctors, hospital superintendents, factory workers, steamfitters, and junk dealers. For many patients, their stay lasted years, sometimes even decades. A Chinese exchange student at Dartmouth stayed for two years. One patient remained at the sanatorium for 23 years.<br />
<br />
In the early 1900s, Glencliff was a self-sufficient community, designed to maintain the isolation that was part of the sanatorium concept. Its medical facilities included a hospital unit, an open ward, an x-ray facility, an operating room, and a microbiology laboratory. The campus encompassed 500 acres and included a farm with pigs and cows and a vast vegetable garden. The institution made its own maple syrup, pasteurized its own milk, and sent summer vegetables to be canned at the New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord. Electricity, water, and sewage disposal were all provided by the nearby town of Glencliff. Coal was brought to the base of the mountain by train until the railroad was discontinued in 1952. The sanatorium even had its own shortwave radio station.<br />
<br />
By 1932, more invasive surgical procedures were being used to treat tuberculosis at Glencliff, specifically extrapleural thoracoplasty. This procedure involved the removal of several ribs to bring the chest wall down to the lung and thereby collapse the tuberculous cavity. Patients were instructed to lie on a pillow to push the chest wall against the lung after the ribs had been removed. At least one Glencliff patient subjected to this treatment says that this procedure was very painful and sometimes led to temporary addiction to opiates. Thoracoplasty was observed to reduce the one-year mortality of cavitary tuberculosis from 80% to between 14% and 27%.<br />
<br />
Many of the surgical collapse procedures were performed in the single operating room at Glencliff and were done by physicians from Dartmouth, as well as by two surgeons who traveled up periodically from Boston. Dr. Dawson Tyson from Dartmouth performed phrenic nerve resections, thoracoplasties, and extrapleural pneumonolyses during his involvement with the statewide program for the surgical treatment of tuberculosis in the early 1940s. During this time, Glencliff also used Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital's pathology and autopsy services, as well as consulting with other specialists from Dartmouth.<br />
<br />
Beginning in 1936, intramuscular gold injections were also tried briefly, but were soon discontinued due to the treatment's toxicity and the dif- ficulty of obtaining this German preparation during World War II.<br />
<br />
During the pre-antibiotic era at Glencliff, death was a common outcome for patients with chest x-rays that showed the distinct cavities indicative of far advanced disease. The annual reports filed by the institution include statistics on admissions, disease classifications, and deaths—from which it can be calculated that overall mortality rates during the period from 1909 to 1944 ranged from 5% to 22%. An average of 20 patients a year had far advanced pulmonary tuberculosis, and the mortality rate in that group ranged most years between 25% and 45%. And the death rate remained high among patients with far advanced disease even after the introduction of lung-collapse therapy. But the outlook for patients with tuberculosis changed dramatically after the 1944 discovery of streptomycin, the 1946 discovery of paraaminosalicylic acid (PAS), and especially the 1952 introduction of isoniazid.<br />
<br />
By 1970, other potent new drugs, including rifampin, were also available. That year, Glencliff sent its last active tuberculosis patient to Mary Hitchcock Hospital, ending the sanatorium movement in New Hampshire. The once-flourishing U.S. network of 420 sanatoriums was soon virtually abandoned. Many of the hospitals were eventually converted to other uses, though some were left empty for fear of contagion. In 1970, the Glencliff Sanatorium was converted into the Glencliff Home for the Elderly. Through the efforts of Sandra Knapp, Glenclifff's administrator from 1979 through 2002, and the current administrator, Todd Bickford, many of the unique architectural features of the original facility have been preserved. The main patient building still has its floor-to-ceiling windows that admit ample light and the sturdy columns that used to support the screened porches which were used for the open-air treatments (these spaces have now been framed in, however, to create additional patient rooms).<br />
<br />
=== Images of Glencliff State Sanatorium ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Glencliff State Sanatorium Image Gallery|Glencliff State Sanatorium]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:New Hampshire State Sanitarium.jpg<br />
File:glencliff1.jpg<br />
File:Glencliff-NH-sanatorium.jpg<br />
File:glencliff2.JPG<br />
File:glencliff12.jpg<br />
File:NH1107.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:New Hampshire]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Preserved Institution]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:glencliff3.JPG&diff=29182
File:glencliff3.JPG
2014-12-03T15:43:35Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Postcard of Glencliff Sanatorium. Image date unknown.</p>
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<div>Postcard of Glencliff Sanatorium. Image date unknown.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:NH01107.JPG&diff=29181
File:NH01107.JPG
2014-12-03T15:42:18Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Postcard depicting Administrative Building at Glencliff Sanatorium. Image date unknown.</p>
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<div>Postcard depicting Administrative Building at Glencliff Sanatorium. Image date unknown.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:glencliff12.jpg&diff=29180
File:glencliff12.jpg
2014-12-03T15:40:41Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Postcard showing interior of patient sun porch at Glencliff Sanatorium. Image Date Unknown.</p>
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<div>Postcard showing interior of patient sun porch at Glencliff Sanatorium. Image Date Unknown.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:mountain_aerie_01.jpg&diff=29179
File:mountain aerie 01.jpg
2014-12-03T15:38:44Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Postcard of Glencliff Sanatorium in the 1920's. Image Courtesy of © 2014 Trustees of Dartmouth College.</p>
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<div>Postcard of Glencliff Sanatorium in the 1920's. Image Courtesy of © 2014 Trustees of Dartmouth College.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:mountain_aerie_14.jpg&diff=29178
File:mountain aerie 14.jpg
2014-12-03T15:36:44Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Interior of Glencliff Sanatorium in the 1920's. Image Courtesy of © 2014 Trustees of Dartmouth College.</p>
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<div>Interior of Glencliff Sanatorium in the 1920's. Image Courtesy of © 2014 Trustees of Dartmouth College.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Glencliff_State_Sanatorium&diff=29177
Glencliff State Sanatorium
2014-12-03T15:31:56Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name =<br />
| image = glencliff.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt =<br />
| caption =<br />
| established = 1901<br />
| construction_began =<br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1909<br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = East Haverhill, NH<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Glencliff Home for the Elderly<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
In New Hampshire, the state legislature authorized construction of a sanatorium in 1901, a year when the state's annual death rate from tuberculosis hit 194 per 100,000 and tuberculosis was the most common cause of death for persons aged 20 to 40. Had tuberculin skin testing been available at the time, virtually every adult would have tested positive—an indication of either latent infection or active disease.<br />
<br />
This is in stark contrast to the current situation in New Hampshire. Today, the annual incidence of tuberculosis is 1.6 per 100,000, and fewer than 10% of DMS students have positive tuberculin skin tests (and most of those who do are foreign-born students from countries where tuberculosis is still common). Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center admits only between one and four patients a year with active tuberculosis, and most of them recover after six months of treatment. Dartmouth medical students and residents are more likely to see patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic inflammatory disease, than with tuberculosis.<br />
<br />
The New Hampshire State Sanatorium was located at Glencliff because the site's elevation of 1,650 feet would provide the fresh mountain air that was then thought to be therapeutic for tuberculosis patients. Construction on the facility was completed in the summer of 1909, and the first patient was admitted on September 14 of that year. Dr. John M. Gile, a professor of clinical surgery and later the dean of Dartmouth Medical School, was the first consulting surgeon at the sanatorium, and Dr. Elmer Carleton, also a member of the DMS faculty, was the consulting laryngologist. Most patients came from the major industrial centers in southern New Hampshire, such as Manchester, Concord, and Nashua, but any resident of the state identified as having active tuberculosis would be considered for admission.<br />
<br />
Admission required that the patient first be seen by a designated practitioner in Claremont, Dover, Keene, or Manchester or at the sanatorium itself. These physicians were asked to consider whether the applicant presented "a reasonable prospect of improvement or cure" before they referred the patient to the superintendent of Glencliff for admission. Patients with an unfavorable prognosis were usually turned down, though sometimes they would be accepted if it was thought that small children in the patient's home were at risk of infection.<br />
<br />
In general, Glencliff did not accept children, although the cutoff for adulthood at the time was 14 years. So-called "pre-tuberculous" and tuberculous children were treated at another New Hampshire facility, the Pembroke Sanatorium, beginning in the early 1920s.<br />
<br />
Glencliff's patients came from all social classes and all professions and included doctors, hospital superintendents, factory workers, steamfitters, and junk dealers. For many patients, their stay lasted years, sometimes even decades. A Chinese exchange student at Dartmouth stayed for two years. One patient remained at the sanatorium for 23 years.<br />
<br />
In the early 1900s, Glencliff was a self-sufficient community, designed to maintain the isolation that was part of the sanatorium concept. Its medical facilities included a hospital unit, an open ward, an x-ray facility, an operating room, and a microbiology laboratory. The campus encompassed 500 acres and included a farm with pigs and cows and a vast vegetable garden. The institution made its own maple syrup, pasteurized its own milk, and sent summer vegetables to be canned at the New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord. Electricity, water, and sewage disposal were all provided by the nearby town of Glencliff. Coal was brought to the base of the mountain by train until the railroad was discontinued in 1952. The sanatorium even had its own shortwave radio station.<br />
<br />
By 1932, more invasive surgical procedures were being used to treat tuberculosis at Glencliff, specifically extrapleural thoracoplasty. This procedure involved the removal of several ribs to bring the chest wall down to the lung and thereby collapse the tuberculous cavity. Patients were instructed to lie on a pillow to push the chest wall against the lung after the ribs had been removed. At least one Glencliff patient subjected to this treatment says that this procedure was very painful and sometimes led to temporary addiction to opiates. Thoracoplasty was observed to reduce the one-year mortality of cavitary tuberculosis from 80% to between 14% and 27%.<br />
<br />
Many of the surgical collapse procedures were performed in the single operating room at Glencliff and were done by physicians from Dartmouth, as well as by two surgeons who traveled up periodically from Boston. Dr. Dawson Tyson from Dartmouth performed phrenic nerve resections, thoracoplasties, and extrapleural pneumonolyses during his involvement with the statewide program for the surgical treatment of tuberculosis in the early 1940s. During this time, Glencliff also used Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital's pathology and autopsy services, as well as consulting with other specialists from Dartmouth.<br />
<br />
Beginning in 1936, intramuscular gold injections were also tried briefly, but were soon discontinued due to the treatment's toxicity and the dif- ficulty of obtaining this German preparation during World War II.<br />
<br />
During the pre-antibiotic era at Glencliff, death was a common outcome for patients with chest x-rays that showed the distinct cavities indicative of far advanced disease. The annual reports filed by the institution include statistics on admissions, disease classifications, and deaths—from which it can be calculated that overall mortality rates during the period from 1909 to 1944 ranged from 5% to 22%. An average of 20 patients a year had far advanced pulmonary tuberculosis, and the mortality rate in that group ranged most years between 25% and 45%. And the death rate remained high among patients with far advanced disease even after the introduction of lung-collapse therapy. But the outlook for patients with tuberculosis changed dramatically after the 1944 discovery of streptomycin, the 1946 discovery of paraaminosalicylic acid (PAS), and especially the 1952 introduction of isoniazid.<br />
<br />
By 1970, other potent new drugs, including rifampin, were also available. That year, Glencliff sent its last active tuberculosis patient to Mary Hitchcock Hospital, ending the sanatorium movement in New Hampshire. The once-flourishing U.S. network of 420 sanatoriums was soon virtually abandoned. Many of the hospitals were eventually converted to other uses, though some were left empty for fear of contagion. In 1970, the Glencliff Sanatorium was converted into the Glencliff Home for the Elderly. Through the efforts of Sandra Knapp, Glenclifff's administrator from 1979 through 2002, and the current administrator, Todd Bickford, many of the unique architectural features of the original facility have been preserved. The main patient building still has its floor-to-ceiling windows that admit ample light and the sturdy columns that used to support the screened porches which were used for the open-air treatments (these spaces have now been framed in, however, to create additional patient rooms).<br />
<br />
=== Images of Glencliff State Sanatorium ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Glencliff State Sanatorium Image Gallery|Glencliff State Sanatorium]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:New Hampshire State Sanitarium.jpg<br />
File:glencliff1.jpg<br />
File:Glencliff-NH-sanatorium.jpg<br />
File:glencliff2.JPG<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:New Hampshire]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Preserved Institution]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:glencliff2.JPG&diff=29176
File:glencliff2.JPG
2014-12-03T15:29:04Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Glencliff Sanatorium Postcard. Image Date Unknown.</p>
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<div>Glencliff Sanatorium Postcard. Image Date Unknown.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:Glencliff-NH-sanatorium.jpg&diff=29175
File:Glencliff-NH-sanatorium.jpg
2014-12-03T15:26:06Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Glencliff Sanatorium Postcard. Image Date Unknown.</p>
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<div>Glencliff Sanatorium Postcard. Image Date Unknown.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:glencliff1.jpg&diff=29174
File:glencliff1.jpg
2014-12-03T15:23:38Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Glencliff Sanatorium Patient Porches. Image Date Unknown.</p>
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<div>Glencliff Sanatorium Patient Porches. Image Date Unknown.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Whitley_County_Farm&diff=29170
Whitley County Farm
2014-12-02T19:12:19Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Whitley County Farm<br />
| image = whitleycounty.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| opened = 1936 (Second Location)<br />
| closed = 2001<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = Albert Heeter<br />
| location = Columbia City, IN<br />
| architecture_style = Neoclassical/WPA<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Meadowbrook Manor<br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
The Whitley County Farm was first built in 1936. It served the community as a county home until 2001. The property contains the large, brick main house, a barn, and a pole barn. There is a cemetery for the farm located across the road from the home. The property is currently used as apartments and privately owned.<ref>Hassett, Kayla. "The County Home in Indiana : A Forgotten Response to Poverty and Disability." Diss. Ed. Vera A. Adams. Ball State U, 2013. Cardinal Scholar, 05 Apr. 2013. Web. 02 Dec 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
== Images of Whitley County Farm ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Whitley County Farm Image Gallery|Whitley County Farm]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:whitleycounty.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Indiana]]<br />
[[Category:County Almshouse]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Preserved Institution]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Wells_County_Home&diff=29169
Wells County Home
2014-12-02T19:11:14Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Wells County Home<br />
| image = wellscounty.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| established = 1864<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| opened = 1939 (Second Building)<br />
| closed = 2009<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = A.M. Strauss<br />
| location = Bluffton, IN<br />
| architecture_style = WPA<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Maplewood Estates<br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
The Wells County Home was built in 1939 and served as a county home until 2009. The property contained the main house, a machine shed, a workshop, and a wash house. The property is now used a apartments. <ref>Hassett, Kayla. "The County Home in Indiana : A Forgotten Response to Poverty and Disability." Diss. Ed. Vera A. Adams. Ball State U, 2013. Cardinal Scholar, 05 Apr. 2013. Web. 02 Dec 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
According to "A 1918 History of Wells County,", <br />
<br />
"The County Infirmary and Orphans' Asylum is located a few miles<br />
southeast of Bluffton, on the southwest quarter of section 23, Harrison<br />
Township. The original farm of 156 acres was purchased in 1864, and the<br />
main building of the Infirmary, a substantial brick structure, was<br />
completed in 1875 at a cost of about $16,000. Various improvements have<br />
been made, including the installation of a modern steam heating plant,<br />
electric light plant, individual baths, and toilet accommodations<br />
within doors. In 1900 the large barn was destroyed by fire and a new<br />
building erected soon after at a cost of $6,000. The County Infirmary<br />
has accommodations for about sixty inmates."<ref>1918 History of Wells County</ref><br />
<br />
== Images of Wells County Home ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Wells County Home Image Gallery|Wells County Home]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:wellscounty.jpg<br />
File:wellscounty.png<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Indiana]]<br />
[[Category:County Almshouse]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Preserved Institution]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Wayne_County_Infirmary&diff=29168
Wayne County Infirmary
2014-12-02T19:09:46Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Wayne County Infirmary<br />
| image = waynecounty.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| opened = 1847<br />
| closed = 1959<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = Emsley Ham<br />
| location = Centerville, IN<br />
| architecture_style = Federal<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Wayne County Infirmary<br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
The Wayne County Infirmary was built in 1847 by architect Emsley Ham and served the community as a county home until 1959. The property contained the main house, a privy building, a heating plant, a machine shed, a corn crib, a basement crib, and a silo. The property is now a single family residence.<ref>Hassett, Kayla. "The County Home in Indiana : A Forgotten Response to Poverty and Disability." Diss. Ed. Vera A. Adams. Ball State U, 2013. Cardinal Scholar, 05 Apr. 2013. Web. 02 Dec 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
== Images of Wayne County Infirmary ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Wayne County Infirmary Image Gallery|Wayne County Infirmary]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:waynecounty.png<br />
File:waynecounty.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Indiana]]<br />
[[Category:County Almshouse]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Preserved Institution]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:wellscounty.png&diff=29167
File:wellscounty.png
2014-12-02T19:03:47Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Wells County Home. Image taken in 2013 and courtesy of Hassett, Kayla. "The County Home in Indiana : A Forgotten Response to Poverty and Disability." Diss. Ed. Vera A. Adams. Ball State U, 2013. Cardinal Scholar, 05 Apr. 2013. Web. 02 Dec 2014.</p>
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<div>Wells County Home. Image taken in 2013 and courtesy of Hassett, Kayla. "The County Home in Indiana : A Forgotten Response to Poverty and Disability." Diss. Ed. Vera A. Adams. Ball State U, 2013. Cardinal Scholar, 05 Apr. 2013. Web. 02 Dec 2014.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:waynecounty.png&diff=29166
File:waynecounty.png
2014-12-02T19:02:47Z
<p>Trickrtreat: Barn at Wayne County Infirmary. Image taken in 2013 and courtesy of Hassett, Kayla. "The County Home in Indiana : A Forgotten Response to Poverty and Disability." Diss. Ed. Vera A. Adams. Ball State U, 2013. Cardinal Scholar, 05 Apr. 2013. Web. 02 Dec 201</p>
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<div>Barn at Wayne County Infirmary. Image taken in 2013 and courtesy of Hassett, Kayla. "The County Home in Indiana : A Forgotten Response to Poverty and Disability." Diss. Ed. Vera A. Adams. Ball State U, 2013. Cardinal Scholar, 05 Apr. 2013. Web. 02 Dec 2014.</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Warren_County_Poor_Farm&diff=29165
Warren County Poor Farm
2014-12-02T18:59:27Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Warren County Poor Farm<br />
| image = warrencounty.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| opened = 1869<br />
| closed = 2013<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Williamsport, IN<br />
| architecture_style = Italianate<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Warren County Home<br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
The Warren County Poor Farm was built in 1869 to served the people of Williamsport and Warren County Indiana. The property contained the main brick house, a granary, a machine shed, an English barn, a grain bin, a shed, and a workshop. There is a cemetery located slightly east of the county home, at the intersection of Indiana Routes 300 N and 50 W. The county home still serves the community today. <ref>Hassett, Kayla. "The County Home in Indiana : A Forgotten Response to Poverty and Disability." Diss. Ed. Vera A. Adams. Ball State U, 2013. Cardinal Scholar, 05 Apr. 2013. Web. 02 Dec 2014.</ref><br />
<br />
== Images of Warren County Poor Farm ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Warren County Poor Farm Image Gallery|Warren County Poor Farm]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:warrencounty.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Indiana]]<br />
[[Category:County Almshouse]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Closed Institution]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Vigo_County_Poor_Farm&diff=29164
Vigo County Poor Farm
2014-12-02T18:53:03Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Vigo County Poor Farm<br />
| image = vigocoind.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1851<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1853<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = 1987<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Terre Haute, IN<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names = <br />
}}<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
The first poor house in Vigo County was built on 80 acres in 1853 and was charged with caring for the ‘unfortunates' of the county. By 1865, due in large part to the rapidly growing city of Terre Haute, the house was no longer adequate to care for the poor of the county and the house was sold. In 1866, a new site for the Home, located on what is now Maple Avenue, was purchased and construction on a new building soon follows. The County Home was rebuilt again in 1936 with an expansion in 1976. In 1992, ownership of the Home was transferred to Nationwide Management Inc. of Indianapolis when the Vigo County Council voted to sell the Home.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Images of Vigo County Poor Farm ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Vigo County Poor Farm Image Gallery|Vigo County Poor Farm]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:vigocoind.png<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
<br />
==Cemetery==<br />
Vigo County Poor Farm records indicate 49 burials near the northern boundary of the property from 1898 to 1903.No known records exist for subsequent burials. Old Plat maps are marked "Graveyard" with 24 crosses on both sides of then Watson Road. Asylum Building built in 1866, now demolished. No marked graves exist. Eight sets of Human remains unearthed in 2011 during excavation for new water line.<br />
*[http://genealogytrails.com/ind/vigo/poorfarm-cem.htm Partial list of burials]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Indiana]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Institution With A Cemetery]]<br />
[[Category:County Almshouse]]</div>
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https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Vanderburgh_County_Poor_Farm&diff=29163
Vanderburgh County Poor Farm
2014-12-02T18:52:36Z
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Vanderburgh County Poor Farm<br />
| image = vanderburgh.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| established = 1838<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| opened = 1882<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = 1974<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Evansville, IN<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Pleasantview Rest Home<br />
}}<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
Demolished in the 1970s, most of the property is now the Hamilton Golf Course.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Images of Vanderburgh County Poor Farm ==<br />
{{image gallery|[[Vanderburgh County Poor Farm Image Gallery|Vanderburgh County Poor Farm]]}}<br />
<gallery><br />
File:vanderburgh1.jpg<br />
File:INevansvillecountyasylum1962.jpg<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Indiana]]<br />
[[Category:County Almshouse]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>
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