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Philadelphia Health Center No. 1 SAH ARCHIPEDIA

WebPhiladelphia Health Center No. 1. 1959, Montgomery and Bishop. 500 S. Broad St. Among the rare modern buildings of consequence from the iconoclastic 1950s in Philadelphia is this round-cornered, bluetile-clad surprise. Adhering to Henry-Russell Hitchcock's and Philip Johnson's principles (enumerated in their book The International Style, 1932

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Benewah Medical Center SAH ARCHIPEDIA

WebAs an ambulatory health care facility, the Benewah Health Center employs 170 people including five full-time doctors, two family nurse practitioners, and three dentists. It serves 6,000 Native and non-Native patients. Medical services include treatment for general health care needs, specialized care, pharmacy counseling, and urgent care

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Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Department of Health and Human …

WebThe Hubert H. Humphrey Building is the second of Breuer’s federal buildings in the capital (the other is the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development or HUD Building). Forming a backdrop for the south side of the Mall, the Humphrey Building was intended as the permanent headquarters of the United States Department of Health

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McLean Hospital SAH ARCHIPEDIA

WebMcLean Hospital is the third oldest mental asylum in the country and the earliest built on the cottage or domestic model. Established in conjunction with Massachusetts General Hospital, the first home of the insane asylum was opened in the Joseph Barrell mansion in Somerville, originally designed by Charles Bulfinch in 1792 and modified by him for institutional use …

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Western Mental Health Institute SAH ARCHIPEDIA

WebWestern State Mental Hospital. 1886–1889, Harry P. McDonald and Kenneth McDonald. 11100 Old Hwy 64. (Sanborn Map Company, 1891. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. The Western Mental Health Institute is a historic insane asylum located in the small town of Bolivar, about sixty miles east of Memphis.

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Lovell House SAH ARCHIPEDIA

WebLovell House. When it was completed in 1929, the Lovell “Health House” in Los Angeles, designed by Richard Neutra, joined the ranks of the world’s modernist masterworks. When Austrian-born Neutra arrived in Los Angeles in 1925, he met the physician Philip Lovell through Rudolph Schindler, who, in addition to Lovell’s beach house, had

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Polk Center (Polk State School and Hospital) SAH ARCHIPEDIA

WebPolk was occupied by 1897, and over the years has housed over 13,000 developmentally disabled persons. The complex was almost self-sufficient, with its own spring-fed water source, a power generation plant, hospital, sewage plant, greenhouse, laundry, garage, and farm. Residents were trained in various skills, including shoe cobbling and sewing.

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Dimock Community Health Center (New England Hospital for …

Web1872, Cummings and Sears. 55 Dimock St. At the New England Hospital for Women and Children, women doctors ran a hospital for the first time in New England and the second in the country. Cummings and Sears designed the two earliest structures, Cary Cottage and the Zakrzewska Building. A Stick Style building with a mansard roof, ornate ventilator

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Vermont State Hospital (Vermont State Hospital for the Insane)

WebThe Vermont State Hospital complex preserves a disappearing typology of the late nineteenth century—the monumental mental institution built as a major public work. The state legislature funded it in 1888 to relieve crowding at the Brattleboro Retreat and located it in Waterbury, the hometown of sponsoring governor William P. Dillingham.

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Weston State Hospital (Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, West …

WebHistorically and architecturally one of West Virginia's most important buildings, the Weston State Hospital is an exemplary manifestation of nineteenth-century America's response to the needs of people with mental disorders.

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Catawba Hospital (Catawba Sanitarium, Roanoke Red Sulphur …

Web1858; 1914 chapel; 1953 hospital building. 5525 Catawba Hospital Dr. Catawba Hospital is on the site of Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs, a large resort operating in the second half of the nineteenth century. Its remote mountain setting was promoted as healthful, and its mineral waters were believed to be especially effective in treating lung diseases.

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Grand Traverse Commons (Traverse City Regional Psychiatric …

Web1883–1915, Gordon W. Lloyd, and Cassius M. Prall. S. Division and W. 11th sts.

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Indian Mounds SAH ARCHIPEDIA

WebThey evidently were built over a thousand-year period. The large conical mounds are believed to have been built during the Middle Woodland Stage, about two thousand years ago, whereas the bird effigy and some other low mounds are characteristic of those built by the so-called effigy mound culture of the Late Woodland stage, around 700 to 1100 CE.

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Delaware Health and Social Services Herman M. Holloway Sr.

Web1894–1895 Main Building, Elijah James Dallett for Baker and Dallett. Many additions. U.S. 13 and I-295

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Detroit Receiving Hospital/Wayne State University Health Center

WebThe building comprises two parts: the Detroit Receiving Hospital, an in-patient emergency trauma center, occupies the five-story building; and the Wayne State University Health Center, an out-patient center, is housed in the nine-story section. Each is part of the Detroit Medical Center and each unit contains three interconnecting modules.

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Bryce Hospital SAH ARCHIPEDIA

WebBy the end of the nineteenth century, over 100 public and private mental hospitals in the United States and Canada exhibited architectural features directly traceable to the Alabama hospital plan. The design of Bryce Hospital is significant for both American architecture and psychiatry. Designed and executed at the height of a reform movement

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VA Black Hills Health Care System – Hot Springs Campus

Web1903–1907, Thomas R. Kimball; G.E. Kessler, landscape architect; many later additions. 500 N. 5th St. Located in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota, the Veterans Affairs Hot Springs Medical Center sits on a bluff above the town of Hot Springs, whose spring waters offered therapeutic qualities. Originally known as the Battle Mountain

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O'Quinn Medical Tower (St. Luke's Medical Tower) SAH …

WebSt. Luke's Medical Tower. 1991, César Pelli and Associates and Kendall/Heaton Associates. 6624 Fannin St. Working with a program that called for a bulky medical professional office building atop a big-box parking garage, Pelli and his associates carefully shaped the twenty-five-story building's profiles so that it appears to be twin octagonal

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Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center (Battle Creek Sanitarium)

WebDesigned by Andrews of Dayton, the five- and six-story, 580-foot-long “Temple of Health,” as the Battle Creek Daily Moon (June 1, 1903) referred to it, is Beaux-Arts classical in design. It has a reinforced-concrete frame and floors and a light yellowish-gray brick exterior. Its formal exterior features a projecting pedimented central

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