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| − | |Body= | + | |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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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.
