Danvers State Hospital
The Danvers State Hospital, also known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, The Danvers Lunatic Asylum, and The Danvers State Insane Asylum, was a psychiatric hospital located in Danvers, Massachusetts. It was built in 1874, and opened in 1878, under the supervision of prominent Boston architect Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee, on an isolated site in rural Massachusetts. It was a multi-acre, self-contained psychiatric hospital designed and built according to the Kirkbride Plan.
Danvers State Hospital | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Danvers State Hospital, c. 1893 | |
| Location | Danvers, Massachusetts, United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°34′52″N 70°58′28″W |
| Built | 1874 |
| Architect | Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee |
| Architectural style | Gothic |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002436 |
| Added to NRHP | January 26, 1984 |
Despite being included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, the majority of the building was demolished in 2007.
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