Central State Hospital building drawings

Description:	The Sick Hospital on the Central State Hospital campus, Indianas primary psychiatric hospital beginning in 1848, was completed in 1902 and consisted of 5 distinct buildings joined by corridors. It included central administrative and medical treatment sections, including an operating room, and separate mens and womens wards to the left and right. It was demolished in the 1960s. The Pathology Building of the Central State Hospital was designed and constructed between 1895 and 1896. In the 1960s, the Pathology Department closed and the building reopened as the Indiana Medical History Museum in 1969. The nations oldest surviving facility of its kind, the Old Pathology Building holds an amphitheater; laboratories for bacteriology, clinical chemistry, histology, and photography, an autopsy room, and an anatomical museum, while the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Origin:	1896; circa 1901
Created By:	Sherrer, Adolph, 1847-1925; Edenharter, George, 1857-1923;
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll38/id/5
Collection:	Highlights of the ISL Manuscripts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Copyright:	No Copyright - United States
Geography:	Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Subjects:	Hospitals Psychiatric hospitals Mental health services Architectural drawings Indianapolis (Ind.) Central State Hospital (Indianapolis, Ind.) Central State Hospital (Indianapolis, Ind.). Pathological Department Sherrer, Adolph, 1847-1925 Edenharter, George, 1857-1923

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