Open Directory - Arts: Architecture: Building Types: Hospitals and Asylums
See also: - 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. - History of Grand Rapids, Michigan sanitarium devoted to rectal disorders. - History of several historic St Louis, Missouri institutions. - Donna Hensley designs a bat house for Eastern State Hospital grounds in Medical Lake, Washington. Several photographs. - Railroad-oriented page features some building photos of this Long Island, New York mental hospital which has long since been closed. - Gallery of photographs of this former Connecticut mental hospital. - Online history of Fairfield State Hospital in CT with photos. - Images of vintage postcards of several hospitals, sanitaria, sanatoria, and eldercare institutions in the state of New York. - Web site dedicated to the history of the former Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. Contains patient files, and photo galleries. - Road report and review of the Glore Psychiatric Museum at the former mental hospital site. St. Joseph, Missouri. - Rootsweb page with history of Hastings Regional Center in Nebraska. - An attempt to catalog and present America's historic state hospitals (insane asylums) founded in the latter half of the 19th century. - Architectural history of administration building for institution for the developmentally disabled located in Newark, New York from 1873 to 1974. - Arizona state government page with history overview and sketch of this Kirkbride-like facility. - Illustrated history of South Carolina State Hospital and the State Department of Mental Health. - Mcgill University provides a searchable database of images, a case study of the Royal Victoria Hospital, and a bibliography. - Pre-World War I postcard images of medical hospital, asylum, and sanatorium postcards in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. - Photographs of people working in The IJsselland Ziekenhuis in Capelle a/d IJssel (Netherlands) by Janssen and De Kievith Fotografie. - Overview of historic Illinois state institutions for the mentally ill, developmentally disabled, and other populations. - 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. - Information on Long Island, New York state hospitals and how they were served by the Long Island Railroad. - Images of four mental hospital complexes in Long Island, New York. - A gazetteer of historic hospitals, dispensaries, spas and other medical heritage from the Bath and Wessex Medical History Group, arranged by county. - History of this central New York State institution for the mentally ill located in Utica. - 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. - History of Newark, New York institution for the developmentally disabled, with historic postcard image. - Photo gallery of Normansfield Hospital, founded by John Langdon Down in 1868 for people with learning disabilities. - History of Northville mental hospital complex in Michigan, with many recent photos. - Gallery of modern photos. - Illustrated article about sanitarium at Gute Hill in Owosso, Michigan - Illustrated virtual tour of hospital originally designed by architect Samuel Rhoads. - Brief architectural specification page concerning mental institution in Farview, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. - Photographs of the abandoned buildings at Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, New York. - Extensive site concerning the history of poorhouses. - Official page for the museum in the reconstructed Public Hospital at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia; first opened in 1773. - Article about this early mental hospital in Virginia - New Brunswick Community College describes the history and architecture of this 19th-century Italianate insane asylum in Nova Scotia, Canada, designed by Matthew Stead. Illustrations include a floor plan. - Genealogy-related page with image and early history of medical/spa sanitarium in Mt. Clemens near Detroit. - An online repository of photos, articles, records, and creative texts documenting the evolving life of the former City Hospital buildings in St. Louis. - A "cyberspace shrine" for the abandoned Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Maidenhead, England. - Early history including architectural information of Borgess Hospital, founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1889. - Vintage account at a genealogy site of the early history of the Oak Grove mental hospital in Flint, Michigan. - Illustrated history of four United Kingdom hospitals. - The Manteno Project, information and photographs about the history of the Manteno State Hospital (aka the Manteno Mental Health Center), in Manteno, Illinois. - Britain's oldest surviving operating theatre. Provides history of the museum, details of its facilities, a virtual tour and mailing list. - History page at Western State Hospital (Virginia) site, with many historic images. - Donna Thomas reports on the preservation prospects of this former mental hospital building in New York, designed by Isaac Perry. (March 01, 2000)
