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6 unusual facts about Kirkbride Plan


Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center

The Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center is a hospital built in the Kirkbride Plan style.

Harrisburg State Hospital

Built in 1851, the Main Building was designed following the Kirkbride Plan which was a very popular building style during the late 19th century.

Hudson River State Hospital

They chose architect Frederick Clarke Withers to design a building according to the Kirkbride Plan, then a popular theory for the design of mental institutions.

Manhattan Psychiatric Center

The building was significantly enlarged in 1871, and a Kirkbride Plan style building was built.

Richardson Olmsted Complex

The large Medina red sandstone and brick hospital buildings were designed in 1870 in the Kirkbride Plan by architect Henry Hobson Richardson with grounds by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Utica Psychiatric Center

The Utica Psychiatric Center, also known as Utica State Hospital, which opened in Utica in 1843, was New York's first state-run facility designed to care for the mentally ill and was one of the first such institutions in the United States, predating and perhaps influencing the Kirkbride Plan which called for similar institutions nation-wide.



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