Oregon State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the state's capital city of Salem with a smaller satellite campus in Junction City opened in 2014. Founde
West facade of the original Kirkbride building of the Oregon State Hospital, 2011
Oregon State Hospital, c. 1881
Oregon State Hospital c. 1900
Memorial where cremains from unclaimed patients are kept, 2015
Oregon Hospital for the Insane was a facility constructed in Portland, Oregon, United States, by medical doctors J. C. Hawthorne and A. M. Loryea. Launched in 1859 as Oregon Hospital, the facility lat
Oregon State Hospital
…in the state of Oregon, and one of the oldest continuously operated hospitals on the West Coast. The hospital was established after the closure of the Oregon Hospital for the Insane in Portland, located 47 miles (76 km) north of Salem. The Oregon State Hospital was active in the fields of electroconvulsive therapy, lobotomies…
The enlarged second iteration of the Oregon Hospital for the Insane, built in 1862 after the hospital became official contractor for the state of Oregon
Ad announcing the establishment of Hawthorne and Loryea's "Oregon Hospital" in The Oregonian, issue of September 3, 1859
Following 1862 legislation contracting with the state of Oregon, Hawthorne and Loryea briefly marketed their expanded operation as the "Oregon State Insane and Idiotic Asylum".