Creedmoor State Hospital, 80-45 Winchester Boulevard (site bounded by Union Turnpike on north, Hillside Avenue on south, Winchester Boulevard on west, & 240th, 241st, & 242nd Streets on east), Queens (subdivision), Queens County, NY
Summary
Significance: Creedmoor State Hospital was opened in 1912 as a small farm colony. During the 1920s and early 1930s the grounds were developed into a major psychiatric center housing thousands of patients and staff members in a series of substantial Colonial- and Byzantine-inspired buildings. This constructions reflects the major expansion of New York State's psychiatric hospitals during the third and fourth decades of the 20th century, as the state became increasingly involved psychiatric care.
Survey number: HABS NY-6343
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Bay Terrace (Queens, New York, N.Y.), 36.12237, -78.68611
Source
Library of Congress
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