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| opened = 1893/1928
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| opened = 1893
 
| closed =  
 
| closed =  
| demolished = 1971
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| demolished =  
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]
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| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]
 
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]
 
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]
 
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| location = Wausau, WI
 
| location = Wausau, WI
| architecture_style = Mediterranean Revival
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| alternate_names = <br>
 
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*Marathon County Hospital
 
*Marathon County Hospital
 
*Sunny Vale Infirmary
 
*Sunny Vale Infirmary
*North Central Health Care (Current)
 
 
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==History==
 
==History==
The asylum was built in 1893 for $80,000 at the end of Sturgeon Eddy Road in Wausau, at the urging of Judge Louis Marchetti, and was called the Asylum for the Chronic Insane. Built next door to the insane asylum was the Marathon County Home and Hospital which served as maternity and general hospital for poor residents. The asylum was once considered a model structure for care of mental patients. The county poor farm facility burned in 1909 and moved into the asylum complex. Fire destroyed the asylum building in 1926 which was rebuilt in 1928.
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No information at this time. It appears the building in the photo has been demolished.
 
 
In 1939, there were 210 chronically insane persons in the asylum. The asylum operated until 1948 when it was renamed Marathon County Hospital. In 1963 it became Sunny Vale Infirmary, and a renovation of a tuberculosis sanatorium on Highway 29 became Sunny Vale Manor.  
 
  
 
==Images==
 
==Images==
{{image gallery|[[Marathon County Asylum Image Gallery|Marathon County Asylum]]}}
 
 
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File:MARATHON COUNTY INSANE ASYLUM WAUSAU WI.jpg
 
File:MARATHON COUNTY INSANE ASYLUM WAUSAU WI.jpg
 
File:Marathon County Insane Asylum.jpg
 
File:Marathon County Insane Asylum.jpg
File:WImarathon1897.png
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File:wiscmarathon1.png
 
File:wiscmarathon1.png
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
  
 
[[Category:Wisconsin]]
 
[[Category:Wisconsin]]
[[Category:Preserved Institution]]
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]
 
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]
 
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]
 
[[Category:County Almshouse]]
 
[[Category:County Almshouse]]

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