See also:

• Health: Medicine: Hospitals  (1,990)
• Society: History: By Topic: Science: Medicine  (46)

Sites:

Abandoned Insane Asylums - Robert Foster's site featuring photos and historic images from historic asylums in New York, Michigan, and elsewhere. The Asylum Opens its Doors - Illustrated history of Utica and Marcy asylums in central New York State. Bartonville State Hospital - Page at Historic Peoria concerning this disused Central Illinois mental hospital's history and ghosts. The Building Design: Saint John Lunatic Asylum - Page describing the architecture of this 19th century Italianate insane asylum in Nova Scotia, Canada. Illustrated with floor plan. Dorothea Dix Hospital - Official site of mental hospital in North Carolina. Contains history section and many historic images. Eastern State Hospital Bat Project - Donna Hensley designs a bat house for Eastern State Hospital grounds in Medical Lake, Washington. Several photographs. Eloise -- The Poorhouse that Became an Asylum - Illustrated article by Mary Bailey from Detroit News on the history of the Eloise hospital near Detroit, Michigan. Franklin County Poorhouse - History and photographic exploration of this 19th-century institution in Northern New York that sheltered paupers and the mentally ill. Fremantle Arts Centre and History Museum - History of this 1861 Gothic Revival building, once Australia's first lunatic asylum, now a museum. Fulton State Hospital History - History page at the Fulton State Hospital site. Includes a photo of building at this Missouri institution. Glenn Dale Hospital - Web site concerning the history, current status, and future uses of this closed mental hospital complex in Maryland. Includes articles and photographs. Hartwood Hospital - Illustrated history of Hartwood and other old Scotland mental hospitals. History of Eastern State Hospital (Virginia) - Eastern State Hospital pages on the history of institution founded in 1773 in Williamsburg. Extensively illustrated and annotated with hyperlinks. History of South Carolina DMH - Illustrated history of South Carolina State Hospital and the State Department of Mental Health. Hospitals and Hospices in the Maltese Islands - A history with references by Charles Savona-Ventura. Covers civil and military, midwifery, naval and seaman's hospitals and hospices for the elderly. Hospitals in Great Yarmouth, UK - A list of hospitals from medieval to modern, with brief histories and references to surviving records, from Norfolk Record Office. Hudson River State Hospital - A Dark Passage expedition to the historic Hudson River State Hospital, a Gothic Revival mental institution dating from 1868. Kew Asylum Museum - The Australian Science Academy Project explains its creation of a museum to document the history of this 19th-century former asylum in Victoria. Includes an illustrated history by Daniel Cass. Kings Park Psychiatric Center - Through articles, photographs, and video, this site documents the now-defunct Kings Park Psychiatric Center on Long Island, New York. LIRR State Hospital Spurs - Information on Long Island, New York state hospitals and how they were served by the Long Island Railroad. Lost Las Vegas - Insane Asylum - History page at Lost Las Vegas concerning the administration building of this New Mexico insane asylum. Manteno State Mental Hospital - Transform Art - Photo gallery by Dave Halbeck depicting disused Illinois asylum. Medical Heritage of Great Britain - A gazetteer of historic hospitals, dispensaries, spas and other medical heritage from the Bath and Wessex Medical History Group, arranged by county. Metropolitan State Hospital - The Massachusetts Film Office presents this former Waltham mental hospital for use in films. Page contains color photographs. Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center - History of this central New York State institution for the mentally ill located in Utica. Nevada Missouri Telecommunity - Joplin Globe article from 1995 on the conversion of former mental hospital in Nevada, Missouri into a "telecommunity". Newark State School - History of Newark, New York institution for the developmentally disabled, with historic postcard image. The Old Administration Building - Page at Public Health Museum site concerning main building of Tewksbury State Hospital, constructed in 1894 in the Queen Anne style to the design of Boston architect John A. Fox. Origins of Therapeutic Landscape Design in Ontario: Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital - Article from 1998 Congress of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects concerning the therapeutic role of landscape architecture at this Etobicoke, Ontario asylum. Illustrated, with links and end notes. Peoria State Hospital - Illinois state history page concerning Peoria State Hospital (Bartonville Asylum) Poorhouse Story - Extensive site concerning the history of poorhouses. The Seaview Hospital Ruin - A photographic essay of the abandoned Seaview Hospital in New York City. Town of Sykesville Warfield Complex Development Project - Information on many aspects of the restoration of the historic Springfield State Hospital buildings in Maryland. UK Workhouses - Rossbret's gazetteer of UK workhouses and voluntary or subscription hospitals, with some asylums, orphanages, almshouses and prisons. Background information on the poor law and history of medicine. Vshadow - Public Institutions - Illustrated Virginia university page describing the early history of two Virginia custodial institutions. Waucapa County Wisconsin Asylum - Page at a genealogy site with information on the founding of this institution. Western State Hospital History - History page at Western State Hospital (Virginia) site, with many historic images. Women’s Ward Pavilions at Seaview Hospital - Illustrated preservation page concerning New York City tuberculosis sanitarium constructed in 1909-1911. The buildings and terra-cotta ornamentation were designed by architect Raymond F. Almirall in the Mission Revival Style. Worcester Hospitals - Historic postcard images of the hospitals, asylum, and poor farm in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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