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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 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.
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- A proposal to vote on the former Norwich Hospital property was withdrawn Monday night in order to get a required opinion of the Commission on the City Plan.