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|Body= The [[Cleveland State Hospital]] was a state-supported psychiatric facility for long-term care. Originally known as the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, it was the second of 6 public asylums established in Ohio during the 1850s. It was later known as Newburgh State Hospital. The Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum was authorized by an act of the Ohio legislature. The main building, containing 100 beds, was completed in 1855 on land in Newburgh donated by the family of James A. Garfield, later U.S. president. Previously, many of those considered insane had been kept in jails or almshouses. The asylum was to provide a quiet place outside the city where healthy, moral living habits could be learned (although management of disturbed patients then also included seclusion, cuffs, straps, strait-jackets, and cribs).
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|Body= The campus-like setting of the former [[Agnews State Hospital|Agnews Insane Asylum]] consists of a grouping of numerous reinforced concrete, brick, stucco, and tile buildings. They are constructed on large rectangular plans and designed in the Mediterranean Revival style. The buildings are formally placed within a landscaped garden of palms, pepper trees, and vast lawns. The treatment of the insane in California dates from the earliest days of the Gold Rush. The first provisions for the insane were to confine them with criminals aboard the ship Ephemia, purchased in 1849 by the City of San Francisco, and later to house them at the San Francisco Marine Hospital in 1850, which was used primarily for ailing seamen. In 1885, the Agnews Residential Facility was established by the California State Legislature as a neuropsychiatric institution for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Agnews, opened in 1889, was the third institution in the state established for the mentally ill. Twenty-one years later, the greatest tragedy of the 1906 earthquake in Santa Clara County took place at the old Agnews State Hospital. The multistory, unreinforced masonry building crumbled, killing over 100 patients.                                      
 
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Latest revision as of 17:14, 11 January 2026

Featured Image Of The Week

Agnews Admin 1907 Report.jpg
The campus-like setting of the former Agnews Insane Asylum consists of a grouping of numerous reinforced concrete, brick, stucco, and tile buildings. They are constructed on large rectangular plans and designed in the Mediterranean Revival style. The buildings are formally placed within a landscaped garden of palms, pepper trees, and vast lawns. The treatment of the insane in California dates from the earliest days of the Gold Rush. The first provisions for the insane were to confine them with criminals aboard the ship Ephemia, purchased in 1849 by the City of San Francisco, and later to house them at the San Francisco Marine Hospital in 1850, which was used primarily for ailing seamen. In 1885, the Agnews Residential Facility was established by the California State Legislature as a neuropsychiatric institution for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Agnews, opened in 1889, was the third institution in the state established for the mentally ill. Twenty-one years later, the greatest tragedy of the 1906 earthquake in Santa Clara County took place at the old Agnews State Hospital. The multistory, unreinforced masonry building crumbled, killing over 100 patients.
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