Mental Asylum 1800s | The Kirkbride Plans
In the 1800s many Mental Asylums or Hospitals for the insane were created across America, Europe and all of first world countries, by 1904 the United States had around 250,000 patients in these hospitals. The Kirkbride Plan was a psychological concept of “moral treatment” of the mentally impaired. Where did all this mental illness come from in the Victorian age? Click here to Join Members
The first Mental Asylum was the Public Hospital of Williamsburg
The first Mental Asylum created was the Public Hospital of Williamsburg, that was a premises that was also called the Eastern State Hospital or Eastern Lunatic Asylum. The initial patient was admitted in 1773. You had the McLean Asylum, which was apparently founded on the 1811 in the Charlestown District of Boston, in Suffolk County, Eastern Massachusetts.
The Kirkbride Mental Hospitals were designed with Tartarian Architecture
The resolute Kirkbride Plan influenced the construction of over 300 similar facilities throughout North America, that emulated the remnant buildings, which had been designed with Tartarian Architecture when the Old-World Order (OWO) extensively flourished. Some of the premises were designed by such luminaries as Henry Hobson Richardson, who apparently developed Richardsonian Romanesque Stylism, who along with Louis Henry Sullivan, the exemplary Skyscrapers Father and Modernism Father, and Frank Lloyd Wright, are regarded to be the founders of the American Architecture Trinity. Other luminaries who constructed such kinds of facilities were individuals such as the Confederate Diplomat called Richard Snowden Andrews, and the American Polymath and landscape designer by the name of Frederick Law Olmsted.
