Seaside Regional Center
Seaside Regional Center | |
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Construction Began | 1910 |
Current Status | Closed |
Building Style | Single Building |
Alternate Names | Seaside Sanatorium
Seaside Geriatric Hospital Seaside Regional Center for the Mentally Retarded |
This institution was designed by Cass Gilbert for the use of teaching the state's mentally handicapped children. It was later showcased in the expose book named: Christmas in Purgatory, A Photographic Essay on Mental Retardation, by Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan. It was written to show the appalling condition in various state schools. The majority of the institutions shown in the book were not named. Yet, the last chapter within the book did name one institution: Seaside Regional Center. This institution was not named because of anything bad, but that it was an example of how state schools should be run. The book commented on how the staff really cared for the patients there and that there was never a real occasion of overcrowding like in other similar institutions.
Images of Seaside Regional Center
Main Image Gallery: Seaside Regional Center
- Seaside1.jpg
Books
- Christmas in Purgatory, A Photographic Essay on Mental Retardation, by Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan