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==History==
 
==History==
Opened by the city of Indianapolis in 1900 to take the many psychiatric patients filling the city's hospitals and jails do due the slow process of admitting people to Central State and it's serious overcrowding problems.
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First established in two log cabins on a farm west of Indianapolis in 1832. Over the course of 106 years 3 different buildings housed patients on the site. In 1938 all patients were transferred to Central State Hospital, but remained open to house short-term patients.
  
 
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Revision as of 12:12, 5 January 2010

Julietta Asylum
Established 1832
Opened 1900
Demolished 1970s
Current Status Demolished
Building Style Single Building
Location Indianapolis, IN
Alternate Names Asylum For Incurables Marion County Infirmary



History

First established in two log cabins on a farm west of Indianapolis in 1832. Over the course of 106 years 3 different buildings housed patients on the site. In 1938 all patients were transferred to Central State Hospital, but remained open to house short-term patients.