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I think it may have been a kirkbride.
It was established in 1877. North Carolina had begun building a kirkbride only two years prior in 1875 and Kankakee, regarded as the first hospital to use a cottage plan had not yet been built.
It says it had a 4 story admin with an adjoining 3 story ward building to the south, an northern wing was added shortly after the hospital opened. It was common to open a kirkbride before it was finished.
Go to page 285
http://books.google.com/books?id=aPssAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA561&dq=The+institutional+care+o...
This book from 1879 refers to it as a single building.
http://books.google.com/books?id=E6c-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=Asylum+for...
I think it was a kirkbride.
http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Cherry_Hospital
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I'm going to say no, judging by the Sanborn from 1913.
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| 1:33:06 AM - Wed, Mar 16th 2011 |
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| The Aycock, Vance, and Miller buildings were not original. They were added between 1888 and 1906.
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The timeline would fit, but I don't see anything that makes it a Kirkbride, with or without the additions. Looks to me like it was just a basic "I" shaped plan that was added on to over the years. ESH has a similar building built in the 1860s.
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I wish they had the floor plans somewhere.
You would figure during the kikrbride era most hospital would operate on the plan, but as this was just built for what I imagine was expected to be a small population maybe they just built the two wards with the idea of adding if need be, then when the time came to add the kirkbride plan had fallen out of favor, so it never grew to be the classic kirkbride structure. After seeing how other kirks grew from one or two pavilions a side to many I think its possible.
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It would be interesting to read an annual report from that time period for NC. I know ESH in Lexington they planned on going with a Kirkbride plan, but from what I've gathered from annual reports an newspaper articles at the time is people complained about so much money being used on an ornate building for "lunatics". Race might have been an issue as well since this was a state hospital for African-Americans, they may have thought that they didn't deserve a nicer or more expensive building. On that note, the Central State Hospital in Virginia was for African-Americans only until the 1960s, but it was a Kirkbride.
I would guess there's information like floor plans at the state archives that haven't been digitized. I've found another good place to look for detailed maps, if they aren't in archives, is a state department of finance or facilities. They almost always have old maps of state owned property that they sometimes don't pass along to other departments or archive.
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