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construction into effect at a facility under his control. The Pennsylvania Hospital's Department for Males building was soon constructed along 49th Street, a short distance west from the original asylum. Completed in 1859, this huge structure consisted of several wings extending from a main central building. It introduced many innovations in terms of spaciousness, airiness and light, that were subsequently widely reproduced in other facilities. Young architect
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The remaining Department for Males building is now the Kirkbride Center, a part of the Blackwell Human Services Campus. It houses the West Philadelphia ACES Charter School, Pennsylvania Hospital's Mill Creek School, Philadelphia Health Management Corporation's Adolescent Residential Treatment Center,
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providers, Pennsylvania Hospital sold the property and moved its mental health services back to the main hospital campus at 8th and Spruce Streets. Three tall housing projects and a multi-purpose social-service facility were built near the site of the 1841 hospital. Other parts of the property were
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Mental health services at the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital continued to expand throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. But by the mid-20th century, the 1841 hospital building proved unusable for this purpose and was demolished in 1959. All treatment moved to the Department for Males
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was designed by Isaac Holden and was located near what is now 46th and Market Streets. Completed in 1841, the facility offered comforts and a "humane treatment" philosophy that set a standard for its day. Unlike other asylums where patients were often kept chained in crowded, unsanitary wards with
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Overcrowding had become a problem in the original Pennsylvania Asylum for the Insane by the 1850s, so Kirkbride lobbied the Pennsylvania Hospital managers for an additional building. The situation offered him a unique opportunity to place his standardized concepts for mental hospital design and
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developed his treatment philosophy based on research he conducted at other progressive asylums of the day, including the one in Worcester, as well as his deep-seated personal opinions regarding mental health and his experience at the Pennsylvania Asylum. Out of his philosophy emerged the
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little if any treatment, patients at the Pennsylvania Asylum resided in private rooms, received medical treatment, worked outdoors and enjoyed recreational activities including lectures and a use of the hospital library. The facility came to be called "Kirkbride's Hospital."
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began erecting a large asylum to replace the hospital's crowded insane wards at 8th and Spruce Streets. The 101-acre (41 ha) site chosen was a former farm in the as-yet unincorporated district of
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On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane with Some Remarks on Insanity and Its Treatment
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Two large hospital structures and an elaborate pleasure ground were built on a campus that stretched along the north side of
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neighborhood of Philadelphia. It continued operations until 1997 when, in the face of shrinking revenues from
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, Department for Males
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sold for commercial and residential development in 2001.
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Pennsylvania Asylum for the Insane—Kirkbride's Hospital
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Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases
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Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases
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National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
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building in 1959. That structure was listed on the
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A History of the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital
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List of National Historic Landmarks in Philadelphia
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The first structure for the 277: 252:Blackwell Human Services Campus 48:U.S. National Historic Landmark 922:Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum 261:, from 45th to 49th Streets. 172: 1: 1099:Hospitals established in 1841 963:Eastern Oregon State Hospital 806:Mount Pleasant State Hospital 397: 326:Department for Males building 765:Spring Grove Hospital Center 210:Interior, hall and stairway. 18:United States historic place 7: 841:Independence State Hospital 786:Jacksonville State Hospital 709:Hudson River State Hospital 647:Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge 509:UPHS: Institutional history 380: 218:Interior, first floor hall. 10: 1125: 694:Northampton State Hospital 354:National Historic Landmark 272: 267:National Historic Landmark 1034:Hospitals in Philadelphia 996: 950: 894: 826:Osawatomie State Hospital 773: 747: 684:Harrisburg State Hospital 679:New Jersey State Hospital 671: 664: 614: 602: 590: 583: 196: 188: 183: 171:NRHP reference  170: 160: 152: 115: 99: 73: 58: 54: 45: 36: 27: 23: 1039:Kirkbride Plan hospitals 973:Mendocino State Hospital 871:Northern Michigan Asylum 836:Winnebago State Hospital 811:St. Peter State Hospital 796:Wisconsin State Hospital 734:Worcester State Hospital 536:HABS No. PA-1636, " 529:HABS No. PA-1635, " 161:Architectural style 937:Arkansas State Hospital 866:Clarinda State Hospital 861:Kankakee State Hospital 851:Columbus State Hospital 755:St. Elizabeths Hospital 714:Danville State Hospital 652:Richard Snowden Andrews 414:. 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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Market Street
Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital is located in Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
39°57′42″N 75°13′2″W / 39.96167°N 75.21722°W / 39.96167; -75.21722
Neoclassical
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psychiatric hospital
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Market Street
Thomas Story Kirkbride
National Historic Landmark
Pennsylvania Hospital
West Philadelphia
Thomas Kirkbride
Kirkbride Plan
Samuel Sloan
Neoclassical style
National Register of Historic Places
National Historic Landmark
Mill Creek
insurance
List of National Historic Landmarks in Philadelphia
National Register of Historic Places listings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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