Nevada State Hospital

Nevada State Hospital, ca. 1890.

Nevada State Hospital was a public psychiatric hospital located in Nevada, Missouri, constructed in 1887. The hospital was built in the design of the Kirkbride Plan.^[1]

History

Provisions for the hospital were approved by the state of Missouri in 1885, and the hospital was constructed in 1887.^[1]^[2] The hospital officially closed in 1991, and was demolished in 1999.^[1]

References

1 2 3 "Nevada State Hospital". Kirkbride Buildings. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
↑ Hurd 1916, p. 884.

Works cited

Hurd, Henry Mills, ed. (1916). "The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada". 2. Johns Hopkins Press: 434 – via Google Books.

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The Kirkbride Plan

People

Physicians	Thomas Story Kirkbride
Advocates	Dorothea Dix
Architects	Samuel Sloan Elbridge Boyden Nathaniel Bradlee John G. Haskell Levi Scofield Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge Richard Snowden Andrews

Notable buildings

Northeast	New Jersey State Hospital Harrisburg State Hospital Taunton State Hospital Northampton State Hospital Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital Dixmont State Hospital Hudson River State Hospital Danville State Hospital Buffalo State Hospital Warren State Hospital Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Worcester State Hospital Danvers State Hospital
Mid-atlantic	St. Elizabeths Hospital Central State Hospital (Virginia) Spring Grove Hospital Center
Midwest	Central State Hospital (Indiana) Jacksonville State Hospital Dayton State Hospital Wisconsin State Hospital Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital Mount Pleasant State Hospital St. Peter State Hospital Anna State Hospital Elgin State Hospital Topeka State Hospital Winnebago State Hospital Independence State Hospital Athens Lunatic Asylum Columbus State Hospital Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane Kankakee State Hospital Clarinda State Hospital Northern Michigan Asylum Nevada State Hospital Cherokee Mental Health Institute Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center
South	Western State Hospital Jackson State Hospital Austin State Hospital Bryce Hospital Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Central State Hospital (Kentucky) Broughton Hospital Arkansas State Hospital Terrell State Hospital
West Coast	Napa State Hospital Oregon State Hospital Agnews State Hospital Eastern Washington State Hospital Patton State Hospital Eastern Oregon State Hospital
Outside the U.S.	Nova Scotia Hospital Callan Park Hospital for the Insane

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