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Latest revision as of 14:09, 12 April 2011

Gillette State Hospital for Crippled Children
Gillette State Hospital for Crippled Children
Construction Began 1911
Current Status Demolished
Building Style Cottage Plan
Alternate Names
  • Anoka State Asylum
  • Anoka-Metro Regional Treatment Center



History[edit]

April 23rd 1907 the state approved $8,000 for construction of a facility for disturbed and deformed children. Until then children had been kept at a ward at the City and County Hospital in St. Paul. Renamed Gillette State Hospital for Crippled Children in memory of Dr. Arthur Gillette in 1925. In 1977 the hospital moved into it's current location and the former facility was torn down except for one building now used by the city park department.

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Main Image Gallery: Gillette State Hospital for Crippled Children