Mendota Mental Health Institute
Mendota Mental Health Institute (MMHI) 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 Commission. Portions of the facility are included in the Wisconsin Memorial Hospital Historic District, District #88002183. The Mendota State Hospital Mound Group and Farwell's Point Mound Group are also located at the facility.
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.
An early illustration of the Mendota Kirkbride plan facility, from the 1885 edition of the Wisconsin Blue Book.
The Kirkbride Plan was a system of mental asylum design advocated by American psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883) in the mid-19th century. The asylums built in the Kirkbride design, often referred to as Kirkbride Buildings, were constructed during the mid-to-late-19th century in the United States.
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
