DeJarnette Sanitarium

DeJarnette Sanitarium
Construction Began	1932
Current Status	Closed
Building Style	Single Building
Alternate Names	DeJarnette Center for Human Development DeJarnette Center

History

Joseph S. DeJarnette, superintendent of Western State Hospital and a public advocate of Eugenics, created the sanitarium as a special pay unit of WSH until 1946 when the facility was seperated from the State Hospital and made into a sanitairum. then in 1972 the facility was changed into a child center. In 1996 the center moved to a new complex abandoning the original buildings.

Links

• A brief time line of the center can be found here.
• An article about the old campus can be found here.
• A photographic tour of the old campus can be found here.