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| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]
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| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]
 
| building_style = [[Kirkbirde Planned Institutions|Kirkbride Plan ]]
 
| building_style = [[Kirkbirde Planned Institutions|Kirkbride Plan ]]
 
| architect(s) = Samuel Sloan  
 
| architect(s) = Samuel Sloan  
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| peak_patient_population = 5,200
 
| peak_patient_population = 5,200
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| alternate_names =
*Alabama Insane Hospital,  
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Alabama Insane Hospital, Bryce Hospital for the Insane,
*Bryce Hospital for the Insane,
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Tuscaloosa State Hospital  
*Tuscaloosa State Hospital  
 
 
}}
 
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==History==
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The planning for a state hospital for the mentally ill in Alabama began in 1852. The new facility was planned from the start to utilize the "moral architecture" concepts of 1850's activists Thomas Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix. Architect Samuel Sloan designed the imposing Italianate building after Kirkbride's model plan. The construction was an important source of employment in Reconstruction-era Tuscaloosa. The facility was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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The planning for a state hospital for the mentally ill in Alabama began in 1852. The new facility was planned from the start to utilize the "moral architecture" concepts of 1830s activists Thomas Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix. Architect Samuel Sloan designed the imposing Italianate building after Kirkbride's model plan. The construction was an important source of employment in Reconstruction-era Tuscaloosa. The facility was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
  
 
[[image:Bryce Hospital Alabama NH02.jpg|thumb|200px|left]]
 
[[image:Bryce Hospital Alabama NH02.jpg|thumb|200px|left]]
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2003: Thompson terminates Wyatt vs. Stickney case after 33 years. <ref> Source: [http://blog.al.com/bn/2008/01/the_history_bryce_hospital.html http://blog.al.com/bn/2008/01/the_history_bryce_hospital.html]</ref>
 
2003: Thompson terminates Wyatt vs. Stickney case after 33 years. <ref> Source: [http://blog.al.com/bn/2008/01/the_history_bryce_hospital.html http://blog.al.com/bn/2008/01/the_history_bryce_hospital.html]</ref>
 
2015: As part of a $60 million restoration project, the outer east & west wings were demolished. The center administration building and adjoining wings are going to be preserved and used as a preserving arts center.
 
 
  
 
== Images of Bryce Hospital ==
 
== Images of Bryce Hospital ==
*[[:Category:Bryce Hospital Images|Click here for more Bryce Hospital Images]]
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==Cemetery==
 
There are 4 cemeteries located on the grounds. The oldest cemetery features at least thirty-seven marked graves, the earliest of which dates to 1892. There are an undetermined number of unmarked burials. It is speculated that these burials were originally part of Old Bryce Cemetery, located north of here, but were moved during the construction of River Road in the 1960's. Another cemetery was established in 1922 and was closed for burials in 1953. It contains approximately 1550 burials mostly marked with simple, chronological numbered concrete grave markers that correspond to cemetery ledger books in the possession of The Alabama Department of Mental Health.
 
 
 
==Books==
 
 
*''An insight into an insane asylum,'' Rev. Joseph Camp. [Louisville? Ky.] Pub. for the author, 1882. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008587811 Free eBook from HathiTrust] [https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Insight_Into_an_Insane_Asylum/M8dCAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover Free eBook in Google Books]
 
 
*''An insight into an insane asylum,'' Joseph Camp, John S Hughes. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Insight_Into_an_Insane_Asylum/23-HT4hE_GMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover Preview version in Google Books] [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796384796 Search WorldCat for library copy]
 
 
 
==Articles==
 
 
 
*''Alabama insane asylum patient-journalists recorded their treatment in the 1800s; view vintage photos'', AL.com. [https://www.al.com/living/2015/11/alabama_insane_asylum_patient-.html Published Nov. 14, 2015. Updated Jan. 13, 20219]
 
 
*''Bryce Hospital (Alabama Insane Hospital)'', Bill Weaver, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Encyclopedia of Alabama [http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1564 Published  June 5, 2008. Last updated  September 2, 2011]
 
 
*''Bryce Hospital established Tuscaloosa as center of mental-health care'', Jason Morton. TuscaloosaNews.com [https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/special/2019/12/31/bryce-hospital-established-tuscaloosa-as-center-of-mental-health-care/1977553007/ Published Dec. 30, 2019. Updated Dec. 31, 2019]
 
 
*The construction of the Alabama Insane Hospital, 1852-1861, Robert O Mellown. ''Alabama Review,'' April 1985, Vol. 38 Iss. 2, pp. 83-104.
 
 
*"Country boys make the best nurses" : nursing the insane in Alabama, 1861-1910. John S Huges. ''Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences,'' January 1994, Vol. 49 Iss. 1, pp. 79-106. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/49.1.79
 
 
*Establishing and organizing the Alabama Insane Hospital, 1846-1861. Bill L Weaver. ''Alabama Review.'' July 1995, Vol. 48, Iss. 3, pp. 219-232.
 
 
*''Inside the spooky skeleton of Bryce, Alabama's historic insane hospital, as it undergoes restoration'', AL.com. [https://www.al.com/living/2016/06/inside_the_spooky_skeleton_of.html Published Jun. 21, 2016. Updated Jan. 13, 2019]
 
 
*Insights into an insane asylum. John S Hughes. ''Alabama Heritage,'' April 1994, Iss. 32, pp. 18-29.
 
 
*Labeling and Treating Black Mental Illness in Alabama, 1861-1910. John S Hughes. ''The Journal of Southern History'', August 1992, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 435-460.  https://doi.org/10.2307/2210163
 
 
*''Life in a 19th Century Insane Asylum,'' The History Engine, University of Richmond. [https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/5405 Full text]
 
 
*The Meteor : The "remarkable enterprise" at the Alabama Insane Hospital, 1872-1881. Burt Rieff. ''Alabama Review,'' April 1999, Vol. 52, Iss. 2,  pp. 105-120.
 
 
*Rewriting Elizabeth : A Life Lost (and Found) in the Annals of Bryce Mental Hospital. Lindsay Byron. ''Southern Cultures'', Summer 2014, Vol. 20 Iss. 2 pp. 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2014.0011
 
 
*Survival at the Alabama Insane Hospital, 1861–1892. Bill L Weaver. ''Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences'', January 1996, Vol. 51, Iss. 1, pp. 5–28. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/51.1.5
 
 
==Links==
 
 
 
*''1852 Alabama Documents relating to the Alabama Insane Hospital,'' Alabama Department of Archives and History. [https://archives.alabama.gov/timeline/1800/insane.html Digitized copies]
 
 
*''Alabama Insane Hospital's newspaper The Meteor'', Alabama Department of Archives and History. [https://archives.alabama.gov/meteor/meteor.html Includes full text issues.]
 
 
*''Bryce Hospital (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)'' [https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n92071362/ List of items in WorldCat]
 
 
*''Mental Health History in Alabama, Bryce Hospital,'' Alabama Department of Mental Health website. [https://mh.alabama.gov/mental-health-history-in-alabama/ Full text]
 
 
*''The Meteor : state publication, 1872-1881'', Alabama Insane Hospital. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122557615 Search WorldCat for archival copy]  [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905338283 Search WorldCat for library copy]
 
 
 
==Records==
 
 
 
*''The challenges of Bryce Hospital Records,'' Tuscaloosa Public Library. [https://www.tuscaloosa-library.org/the-challenges-of-accessing-medical-records/ Published February 4, 2016]
 
 
 
  
 
== References ==
 
== References ==
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[[Category:Kirkbride Buildings]]
 
[[Category:Kirkbride Buildings]]
 
[[Category:Active Institution]]
 
[[Category:Active Institution]]
[[Category:Private Institution]]
 
[[Category:Asylum Books]]
 
[[Category:Institution With A Cemetery]]
 
[[Category:Past Featured Article Of The Week]]
 
 
Carla Yanni, The Architecture of Madness, University of Minnesota Press, 2007, page 59-64.
 

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