Portal:Featured Image Of The Week: Difference between revisions

From Asylum Projects
Jump to navigationJump to search
← Older editNewer edit →
M-Explorer (talk | contribs)
Forum:Admin, Forum:Mod, Bureaucrats, checkuser, Administrators
19,939 edits
No edit summary
M-Explorer (talk | contribs)
Forum:Admin, Forum:Mod, Bureaucrats, checkuser, Administrators
19,939 edits
No edit summary
Line 2: Line 2:
|Image= Kankakee.png
|Image= Kankakee.png
|Width= 250px
|Width= 250px
|Body= Historical photograph of the Kirkbride building at [[Kankakee State Hospital]].  The institution was established in 1877 and construction began in 1878 with the first patients admitted in 1879. The building features many of the typical Kirkbride plan features from a bell/clock tower, spread out wings of wards on either side of a central admin, and extensively planned grounds and gardens.  
|Body= Work begunon [[Kankakee State Hospital]] in 1878 and the first patients received in December 1879. the plan of the institution is, in many respects, unique. It comprises a general building three stories high capable of accommodating 300 to 400 patients and a number of detached buildings, technically termed cottages, where various classes of insane patients may be grouped and receive the particular treatment best adapted to ensure their recovery.
}}
}}

Revision as of 10:22, 18 January 2010

Featured Image Of The Week

Work begunon Kankakee State Hospital in 1878 and the first patients received in December 1879. the plan of the institution is, in many respects, unique. It comprises a general building three stories high capable of accommodating 300 to 400 patients and a number of detached buildings, technically termed cottages, where various classes of insane patients may be grouped and receive the particular treatment best adapted to ensure their recovery.
Retrieved from "https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Portal:Featured_Image_Of_The_Week&oldid=3161"