Kirkbride Plan
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The Kirkbride Plan was a system of mental asylum design advocated by American psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride in the mid-19th century. The asylums built in the Kirkbride design, often referred to
An 1848 lithograph of the Kirkbride design of Trenton State Hospital in Trenton, New Jersey
The Traverse City State Hospital in Michigan, in operation from 1881 to 1989, is an example of a Kirkbride building
Thomas Story Kirkbride, creator of the Kirkbride Plan
The floor plan for the Kirkbride design from an 1854 lithograph
Traverse City State Hospital
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The Traverse City State Hospital, also known at various points as the Northern Michigan Asylum and the Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital, is a decommissioned psychiatric hospital in Traverse
Kirkbride Plan
…An 1848 lithograph of the Kirkbride design of Trenton State Hospital in Trenton, New Jersey The Traverse City State Hospital in Michigan, in operation from 1881 to 1989, is an example of a Kirkbride building The Kirkbride Plan was a system of mental asylum design advocated…
A postcard of Building 50 at the hospital, c. 1935
Roof of Building 50
House on grounds