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{{infobox institution
 
{{infobox institution
 
| name = Provincial Lunatic Asylum at St. John
 
| name = Provincial Lunatic Asylum at St. John
| image = stjohnNBaerial.png
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| image = NBstjohn.png
 
| image_size = 250px
 
| image_size = 250px
 
| alt =  
 
| alt =  
 
| caption =  
 
| caption =  
 
| established = 1837
 
| established = 1837
| construction_began = 1846
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| construction_began =  
 
| construction_ended =  
 
| construction_ended =  
 
| opened = 1848
 
| opened = 1848
 
| closed = 1998
 
| closed = 1998
| demolished = 1999
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| demolished = 2011
 
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]
 
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]
 
| building_style = [[Pre-1854 Plans]]
 
| building_style = [[Pre-1854 Plans]]
 
| architect(s) = Matthew Stead
 
| architect(s) = Matthew Stead
 
| location = St. John, NB
 
| location = St. John, NB
| architecture_style = Italianate style
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| peak_patient_population = 1,697 in 1957
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| peak_patient_population =  
 
| alternate_names =<br>
 
| alternate_names =<br>
 
*New Brunswick Provincial Hospital
 
*New Brunswick Provincial Hospital
*Centracare
 
 
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Between 1929 and 1936 the last major construction was finished. When all construction was completed, the facility included a farm, a freezing plant, a recreational hall, a movie theatre, and a chapel. Throughout the years, the Lunatic Asylum had many name changes to keep up with the political correctness of the society of the day. In 1978, the Provincial Hospital was incorporated under the name of Centracare, with management of the institution transferred to a Board of Trustees. In February of 1998 the old facility was closed. Centracare Saint John Incorporated is no more and is now called the Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation.
 
Between 1929 and 1936 the last major construction was finished. When all construction was completed, the facility included a farm, a freezing plant, a recreational hall, a movie theatre, and a chapel. Throughout the years, the Lunatic Asylum had many name changes to keep up with the political correctness of the society of the day. In 1978, the Provincial Hospital was incorporated under the name of Centracare, with management of the institution transferred to a Board of Trustees. In February of 1998 the old facility was closed. Centracare Saint John Incorporated is no more and is now called the Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation.
 
The massive 150-year-old original Centracare property in Lancaster, which was first called the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, had been purchased from the provincial government by industrial conglomerate J.D. Irving Limited for $1 million (CAD) in 1998. The building was vacated after the last 48 patients were moved from the building in the spring of 1998 to Centracare's new psychiatric hospital at South Bay. J.D. Irving began the massive demolition of the vacant psychiatric hospital in Lancaster on March 9, 1999 and the entire structure was levelled within days.
 
 
==Images==
 
<gallery>
 
File:stjohnNB.png
 
File:NBstjohn.png
 
File:stjohn1980s.png
 
 
</gallery>
 
  
  

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