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Hospitals and Asylums

Historic buildings designed to lodge and care for the sick, injured, aged, infirm, disabled or mentally disordered. Medieval hospitals housing the poor, lepers, aged and infirm are included, even if medical care was minimal.

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• - History of St Joseph medical hospital in Flint, Michigan; founded in 1920.
  
• - An online repository of photos, articles, records, and creative texts documenting the evolving life of the former City Hospital buildings in St. Louis.
  
• - History of Grand Rapids, Michigan sanitarium devoted to rectal disorders.
  
• - Galleries of recent asylum photos by Chris Payne,an architectural photographer who specializes in industrial ruins and vanishing building typologies.
  
• - Overview of historic Illinois state institutions for the mentally ill, developmentally disabled, and other populations.
  
• - History and photographic exploration of this 19th-century institution in Northern New York that sheltered paupers and the mentally ill.
  
• - History of Western Washington State Hospital (Fort Steilacoom)
  
• - BBC Beyond the Broadcast article about the history of an asylum constructed in the mid 19th century north of London, England.
  
• - Extensive site concerning the history of poorhouses.
  
• - A history with references by Charles Savona-Ventura. Covers civil and military, midwifery, naval and seaman's hospitals and hospices for the elderly.
  
• - Article about this early mental hospital in Virginia
  
• - Illustrated history of Hartwood and other old Scotland mental hospitals.
  
• - A "cyberspace shrine" for the abandoned Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Maidenhead, England.
  
• - History of former county asylums in Gloucester, UK: Horton Road and Coney Hill.
  
• - A Dark Passage expedition to the historic Hudson River State Hospital, a Gothic Revival mental institution dating from 1868.
  
• - Photo gallery of Normansfield Hospital, founded by John Langdon Down in 1868 for people with learning disabilities.
  
• - Illustrated history of four United Kingdom hospitals.
  
• - Railroad-oriented page features some building photos of this Long Island, New York mental hospital which has long since been closed.
  
• - Photographs of people working in The IJsselland Ziekenhuis in Capelle a/d IJssel (Netherlands) by Janssen & De Kievith Fotografie
  
• - Illustrated article about sanitarium at Gute Hill in Owosso, Michigan
  
• - Vintage account at a genealogy site of the early history of the Oak Grove mental hospital in Flint, Michigan.
  
• - Articles about demolition of Eloise Hospital near Detroit, Michigan.
  
• - History of this central New York State institution for the mentally ill located in Utica.
  
• - Britain's oldest surviving operating theatre. Provides history of the museum, details of its facilities, a virtual tour and mailing list.
  
• - History, heritage and architecture former lunatic asylums and mental health care in the UK and the rest of the world.
  
• - Brief architectural specification page concerning mental institution in Farview, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
  
• - History of several historic St Louis, Missouri institutions.
  
• - Through articles, photographs, and video, this site documents the now-defunct Kings Park Psychiatric Center on Long Island, New York.
  
• - Robert Foster's site featuring photos and historic images of abandoned asylums in the United States. Also featuring over 300 asylum postcards and a page on asylum books.
  
• - Founded 1858 and designed by architect Isaac Perry. Now known as Binghamton State Hospital. Contains recent and vintage photos, historical info, rare documents, links, and forum.
  
• - Pre-World War I postcard images of medical hospital, asylum, and sanatorium postcards in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  
• - History page at the Fulton State Hospital site. Includes a photo of building at this Missouri institution.
  
• - In the grounds of Madison State Hospital has displays illuminating the history of this mental hospital, created by the Jefferson County Historical Society.
  
• - Rootsweb page with history of Hastings Regional Center in Nebraska.
  
• - Historic postcard images of the hospitals, asylum, and poor farm in Worcester, Massachusetts.
  
• - Road report and review of the Glore Psychiatric Museum at the former mental hospital site St. Joseph, Missouri.
  
• - The Verona Springs Sanitarium was built on Spring House road, near the town of Lowell in the town of Westmoreland, New York. In 1903 it burnt down never to be replaced. This site is dedicated to the memory of the building.
  
• - Genealogy-related page about the early institutions in Detroit, Michigan.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An old Museum of London exhibition telling the fascinating 750-year-old story of Bethlem Royal Hospital, popularly known as 'Bedlam', the world's oldest institution caring for people with mental disorders.
  
• - Official site of mental hospital in North Carolina. Contains history section and many historic images.
  
• - Very extensive site offering a wide variety of information on this mental hospital in Wayne County in Michigan.
  
• - This ghost-hunting page provides a history and recent photographs of this one-time mountainside tuberculosis sanitarium near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
  
• - Index page with web sites pertaining to poorhouses, sanatoria, and asylums
  
• - Page at Historic Peoria concerning this disused Central Illinois mental hospital's history and ghosts.
  
• - Intended as a resource for adoption research, this page contains a useful list of historic medical hospitals, sanitariums, and mental hospitals in Michigan.
  
• - Long Island, New York history page concerning Kings Park and other mental hospitals.
  
• - Promotes studies related to the historical evolution of hospitals from their beginnings to the present day. Conferences, advisory board, newsletters, membership form.
  
• - Documentary of Fairfield Hills, Located in Newtown, CT., with images, interviews, history , message boards and
  
• - Photographs of the abandoned buildings at Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, New York.
  
• - Page at a genealogy site with information on the founding of this institution.
  
• - Arizona state government page with history overview and sketch of this Kirkbride-like facility.
  
• - History and genealogy information for Western State Hospital in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
  
• - Extensive index of asylums in the United Kingdom.
  
• - The Manteno Project, information and photographs about the history of the Manteno State Hospital (aka the Manteno Mental Health Center), in Manteno, Illinois.
  
• - A tribute project concerning the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston.
  
• - Photos of abandoned children's asylum buildings in Northville, Michigan called Wayne County Child Development Center. Now totally demolished. Also added is Clinton Valley Center from Pontiac, MI and Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City.
  
• - Scholarly article from 1841 on the construction and management of hospitals for the insane.
  
• - Early history including architectural information of Borgess Hospital, founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1889.
  
• - Recent aerial survey of the grounds of former Manteno State Hospital in Illinois.
  
• - Illustrated page with history and current preservation status of almshouse and asylum complex in Salem County, New Jersey.
  
• - History page at Western State Hospital (Virginia) site, with many historic images.
  
• - Information on Long Island, New York state hospitals and how they were served by the Long Island Railroad.
  
• - Genealogy-related page with image and early history of medical/spa sanitarium in Mt. Clemens near Detroit.
  
• - Gallery of photographs of this former Connecticut mental hospital.
  
• - Paragraph and several recent photos of building exteriors at this abandoned Illinois mental institution.
  
• - Images of four mental hospital complexes in Long Island, New York.
  
• - Architectural history of administration building for institution for the developmentally disabled located in Newark, New York from 1873 to 1974.
  
• - Official page for the museum in the reconstructed Public Hospital at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia; first opened in 1773.
  
• - Illustrated Virginia university page describing the early history of two Virginia custodial institutions.
  
• - Historic photos of medical/spa sanitarium.
  
• - Illustrated history of South Carolina State Hospital and the State Department of Mental Health.
  
• - Page of recent photographs of Brook Hospital, which dates to 1896, located in southeast London, United Kingdom.
  
• - Illustrated article by Mary Bailey from Detroit News on the history of the Eloise hospital near Detroit, Michigan.
  
• - Vintage photographs of Newark, New York institution for the developmentally disabled on fire.
  
• - Donna Hensley designs a bat house for Eastern State Hospital grounds in Medical Lake, Washington. Several photographs.
  
• - The Massachusetts Film Office presents this former Waltham mental hospital for use in films. Page contains color photographs.
  
• - Lengthy list of the names and addresses of hospitals and related facilities extant in the Detroit, Michigan area in 1967
  
• - Page describing the architecture of this 19th century Italianate insane asylum in Nova Scotia, Canada. Illustrated with floor plan.
  
• - Mcgill University provides a searchable database of images, a case study of the Royal Victoria Hospital, and a bibliography.
  
• - History of this 1861 Gothic Revival building, once Australia's first lunatic asylum, now a museum.
  
• - History by Janell Cole of this state hospital opened in Jamestown in 1885.
  
• - Photos of Norwich State Hospital in Connecticut.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Timeline containing milestone dates for Tennessee institutions
  
• - History of Northville mental hospital complex in Michigan, with many recent photos.
  
• - Images of vintage postcards of several hospitals, sanitaria, sanatoria, and eldercare institutions in the state of New York.
  
• - Photographs of dissused mental health building complex in New York.
  
• - Illustrated virtual tour of hospital originally designed by architect Samuel Rhoads.
  
• - Donna Thomas reports on the preservation prospects of this former mental hospital building in New York, designed by Isaac Perry.
  
• - A gazetteer of historic hospitals, dispensaries, spas and other medical heritage from the Bath and Wessex Medical History Group, arranged by county.
  
• - Photo gallery by Dave Halbeck depicting disused Illinois asylum.
  
• - Detroit News article concerning the status of the Ardmore Center mental hospital complex near Detroit, Michigan.
  
• - Site by John Vermette containing comments, photos, and other mental hospital (asylum) information.
  
  

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