Directory of Kirkbride Resources

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Mental hospitals designed on the plan recommendations of Thomas Story Kirkbride. This category includes web sites for non-Kirkbride-related features on mental hospital grounds that have or once had Kirkbride buildings.

Subcategories

• Athens State Hospital
• Brattleboro Retreat
• Danvers State Hospital
• Northampton State Hospital
• Traverse City State Hospital

Resources in This Category

• A Mental Hospital's Breakdown

  http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20030420dixmont2.asp
  April 20, 2003 article from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette concerning history and pending demolition of Dixmont State Hospital.

• Clinton Valley Center - An Album of Images and History

  http://historiccvc.8m.com/
  Historic information along with modern and historic images of the former Pontiac State Hospital in Michigan.

• Elgin State Hospital Annex

  http://elginpostcards.tripod.com/elginstatehospitalannex.htm
  Postcard image of annex at Elgin State Hospital in Illinois, accompanied by description of early history.

• Fergus Falls State Hospital Complex

  http://nrhp.mnhs.org/property_overview.cfm?propertyID=18
  Minnesota Historical Society page with history, context, modern color photos, and links to related historic buildings.

• Forgotten Photography

  http://www.forgottenphotography.com/
  A photographic journey by David and Karie Esmann through some of the historical asylums and state hospitals of the United States.

• Insane Asylum Number 3, Nevada, Missouri

  http://www.lyndonirwin.com/asylum.htm
  Page by London Irwin featuring several historic postcard images of the old Nevada State Hospital.

• Institute of Penn. Hospital Getting a New Lease on Life

  http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/1998/02/02/story8.html
  Philadelphia Business Journal article concerning re-use of Dr Kirkbride's mental hospital building.

• Kirkbride Buildings

  http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/
  Information on Thomas Story Kirkbride and his mental hospital plan. Includes photographs of several Kirkbride buildings.

• Kirkbride's Hospital

  http://uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/kirkbride.html
  Historic District web page with detailed description of this pioneering Philadelphia hospital and its history.

• Michigan Historical Marker - Clinton Valley Center

  http://www.michmarkers.com/Pages/S0437.HTM
  Michigan Historical Markers page on asylum building designed by Elijah E. Myers and completed in 1878.

• Places in Worcester - Asylum For the Insane

  http://www.worcestermass.com/places/asylum.shtml
  Community page with historic anecdotes from several submitters, and old postcard views.

• St. Elizabeths Hospital

  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medtour/elizabeths.html
  Historic Medical Sites page concerning this federal government mental hospital in Washington, D.C., with recent photo of the center of the Kirkbride building.

• The Demise of Pontiac State Hospital

  http://detroityes.com/webisodes/2000/05pontiac_hosp/01Pontiac.htm
  The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit site presents this well-documented and well-illustrated tour of the former Pontiac State Hospital (Clinton Valley Center) at a time when it had been partially demolished during 2000.

• Town Sees Red Over Police Vandalism (Weston, West Virginia)

  http://www.postgazette.com/regionstate/19990620paint4.asp
  Article from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from June 1999 about the former Weston State Hospital in West Virginia. The article gives equal attention to a police vandalism incident and plans to re-use the building.

 

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