Editing Dannemora State Hospital

{{infobox institution
| name = Dannemora State Hospital
| image = Cdp2571.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| alt = Dannemora State Hospital
| caption =
| established = 1896
| construction_began = 
| construction_ended =
| opened = 1900
| closed = 1975 (as a psychiatric facility)
| demolished =
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]
| architect(s) =
| location = Dannemora, NY
| architecture_style =
| peak_patient_population = 
| alternate_names =<br>
*Dannemora State Hospital for Insane Convicts 
*Adirondack Correctional Treatment and Evaluation Center
}}

==History==
Four years after the opening of the [[Matteawan State Hospital]] it had become evident that that institution would soon be overcrowded. The conditions were such that Governor Morton, in his annual message in 1896, recommended the erection of a building on state land at Dannemora, where convict labor from Clinton Prison would be available. The Legislature, acting upon this recommendation, appropriated $25,000 from the prison capital fund and work was begun. After some delay, due to insufficient appropriations, a comparatively small section of the institution as planned was, in 1900, made ready for the reception of patients. At this time there had been completed at Dannemora a block with two wards for patients, connecting with a central loggia on the first floor and a small infirmary on the second, an employees’ dining room, the main kitchen and the power house. There were no office rooms nor staff quarters and the superintendent and his
assistants were obliged to appropriate for such use the operating room, pharmacy and three or four small guard rooms. 

Dannemora State Hospital for Insane Convicts opened in 1900. Dannemora confined and cared for male inmates who were declared insane while serving sentences. [[Matteawan State Hospital]] transferred to Dannemora all male inmates who had at least six months left to serve on their sentences. Males serving sentences for felonies in State prisons, reformatories, or penitentiaries, and who were declared insane, were also transferred to Dannemora. In 1912, the name of the institution was changed to the Dannemora State Hospital. In 1972, Dannemora closed and all inmates were transferred to Matteawan.

When Dannemora State Hospital closed, the site became the Adirondack Correctional Treatment and Evaluation Center. This facility offered programs for the rehabilitation of persistent offenders and included a diagnostic team of specialists in psychiatry and psychology. In 1975, the Center closed and the site was converted into the Clinton Annex, a medium security facility for male inmates. Camp Adirondack, a medium security work camp, was also established at the site in 1975. The following year, Camp Adirondack was transferred to Ray Brook and was renamed the Adirondack Correctional Facility.

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[[Category:New York]]
[[Category:Preserved Institution]]
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]
[[Category:Institution for Criminally Insane]]