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|1=March 10, 2012 [http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=141574&catid=3 Milledgeville's Central State Hospital Changes Role, Decays from Disuse] | |1=March 10, 2012 [http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=141574&catid=3 Milledgeville's Central State Hospital Changes Role, Decays from Disuse] | ||
|2=The campus is sprawling and mostly empty. Huge old hospital buildings with segregation-era labels like "white male receiving building" are rapidly decaying from disuse. The empty buildings are gothic, moldering monuments to a time when this place housed and treated the desperately ill - and filled other, less noble purposes. | |2=The campus is sprawling and mostly empty. Huge old hospital buildings with segregation-era labels like "white male receiving building" are rapidly decaying from disuse. The empty buildings are gothic, moldering monuments to a time when this place housed and treated the desperately ill - and filled other, less noble purposes. | ||
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| + | |1=March 9, 2010 [http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=203268 Wernersville State Hospital preparing for Allentown patients] | ||
| + | |2=Wernersville State Hospital is preparing two new units to accommodate the transfer of up to 65 patients from the recently closed Allentown State Hospital. | ||
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|1=March 3, 2010 [http://www.dailynewstribune.com/features/x699612162/Council-panel-backs-funding-to-demolish-Gaebler-Center Council panel backs funding to demolish Gaebler Center] | |1=March 3, 2010 [http://www.dailynewstribune.com/features/x699612162/Council-panel-backs-funding-to-demolish-Gaebler-Center Council panel backs funding to demolish Gaebler Center] | ||
|2=WALTHAM — A City Council committee has OK'd spending $543,875 to demolish the old Gaebler Children's Center, a building that city officials had wanted to reuse as a community center. | |2=WALTHAM — A City Council committee has OK'd spending $543,875 to demolish the old Gaebler Children's Center, a building that city officials had wanted to reuse as a community center. | ||
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| + | |1=February 24, 2009 [http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=199074 Decision to shut Allentown State Hospital facility final] | ||
| + | |2=About 55 patients will be leaving Allentown State Hospital in Allentown, PA and heading to Wernersville State Hospital. | ||
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March 10, 2012 Milledgeville's Central State Hospital Changes Role, Decays from Disuse
- The campus is sprawling and mostly empty. Huge old hospital buildings with segregation-era labels like "white male receiving building" are rapidly decaying from disuse. The empty buildings are gothic, moldering monuments to a time when this place housed and treated the desperately ill - and filled other, less noble purposes.
March 9, 2010 Wernersville State Hospital preparing for Allentown patients
- Wernersville State Hospital is preparing two new units to accommodate the transfer of up to 65 patients from the recently closed Allentown State Hospital.
March 6, 2010 Demolition of former rehabilitation facility begins
- Demolition work started Friday on a 73-year-old building on the Oregon State Hospital campus
March 3, 2010 Council panel backs funding to demolish Gaebler Center
- WALTHAM — A City Council committee has OK'd spending $543,875 to demolish the old Gaebler Children's Center, a building that city officials had wanted to reuse as a community center.
February 24, 2009 Decision to shut Allentown State Hospital facility final
- About 55 patients will be leaving Allentown State Hospital in Allentown, PA and heading to Wernersville State Hospital.
January 29, 2009 Fire destroys building at Fairview Center in Salem, WA.
- A cottage at the now closed Fairview Training Center burned to the ground Wednesday. Arson is suspected as the cause.
December 30, 2009 WWII Pacifists Exposed Mental Ward Horrors
- In September of 1942, Warren Sawyer, a 23-year-old conscientious objector, reported for his volunteer assignment as an attendant at a state mental hospital. The young Quaker was one of thousands of pacifists who had refused to fight and instead were assigned to work in places few outsiders got to see — places like Philadelphia State Hospital, best known as Byberry.
December 3, 2009 Lawmaker: Iowa mental health center will close
- The Legislature will likely move to close one of the state's four mental health institutions despite a task force recommendation to keep them open until a new system of care can be put in place, a state lawmaker said Thursday.
November 22, 2009 Preserving a Building Type
- The need for preservation of historic buildings and structures was first illustrated to me by the building pictured above, a massive sprawling structure that was built in 1878 to house the mentally ill.
November 17, 2009 Mental health facilities need to share expertise, group says
- Members of a task force charged with reviewing Iowa’s four state-run mental health institutes say those facilities need to do a better job of reaching out and sharing their expertise with local communities.
November 16, 2009 Council postpones vote on sale of Norwich Hospital property
- A proposal to vote on the former Norwich Hospital property was withdrawn Monday night in order to get a required opinion of the Commission on the City Plan.
