Mendota Mental Health Institute is a public psychiatric hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, operated by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The hospital is accredited by the Joint
Stovall Hall, one of MMHI's many housing units, pictured in July 2024
The main building of the Wisconsin Memorial Hospital
Effigy mounds from the Late Woodland Period (ca. 650 AD to 1200 AD) on the grounds of the Mendota Health Institute.
A Farwell's Point Mound with Urben House in the background. Designed by Arthur Peabody, Urben House is a historic structure part of the Wisconsin Memorial Hospital Historic district and named for Walter J. Urben a former superintendent of Mendota State Hospital.
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
Mendota Mental Health Institute
…he led confirmed that it was the best location for the hospital. Architect Stephen Vaughn Shipman was commissioned to design the facility based on the Kirkbride Plan. Shipman later designed a sister facility near Oshkosh and several other Kirkbride plan asylums in Iowa and Illinois. The main building at the original…
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