Pre-1854 Plans
From Asylum Projects
- These are Asylums built in the united States before Dr. Kirkbride had written and pushed his own mental hospital layout plans that included both architecture, grounds, and the treatment of patients within mental hospitals.
- Some of these hospitals are based on early European ideas, regional ideas, and reformer ideas.
- Early hospitals usually started out with single or few buildings with no discernible beginning layout that was replicated by other hospitals of the time.
