Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, 2335 Wayne Avenue, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH
Summary
Significance: State of Ohio second major institution for the insane. Plans for the building were based on the first uniform plan of hospital construction, developed by Dr. Thomas Kirkbride of Philadelphia, a knowledgeable expert on asylum architecture who had traveled throughout England. He studied the defects of the European model and devised plans, formulated in a series of 26 presentations, which were formally adopted by the Association of Superintendents of Institutions. This building layout became a prototype for most of the mental hospitals built in the 1800's...
Survey number: HABS OH-2222
Tags
Date
1930 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Dayton (Ohio), 39.73955, -84.16178
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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