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The Indiana State Sanatorium operated as Indiana’s main tuberculosis hospital from 1908 to 1968. Re-opened as the Lee Alan Bryant Health Care Center in 1976, the site operated as a nursing home and private mental hospital until 2011 when it closed suddenly leaving behind hundreds of beds and hospital equipment. Sale!
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May 5, 2023 · Below, you are going to learn more about six creepy abandoned asylums in Indiana that you'll never forget (and neither will we - yikes.) 1. Logansport State Hospital. M.G. Callahan Co./Wikimedia. In 1883, there was just one asylum in Indianapolis, and it was full - so, they needed to build a new one. The new facility was built in 1884, and ...
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In 1905 the state of Indiana appointed a committee to investigate the need of a state-run institution. By 1907 the state legislature appropriated $250,000 for the purchase of a site. A second committee was then created to determine where the site will should be located. The final decision was to purchase 504 acres of land east of Rockville. In 1909...
By the 1970s, private investors and the state planned to repurpose the complex as an assisted living facility. They proposed that the build a modern new complex replacing an old Tuberculosis ward between the Administration Building and Adams Hall. This was completed in 1978, and soon opened. However, there was a lack of patients that plagued the fa...
The facility was purchased in 2020, and the current owner plans to redevelop the complex into a mix-use facility by restoring the 1908 Administration Building. Currently the facility offers both historical and paranormal tours.
Carrington, Thomas (1911). Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium Construction. New York: National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. pp. 30–33, 60–62, 89–90.History of Parke and Vermillion Counties. Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen & Company. 1913. pp. 160–163.Matheison, Clele (1938). "Hospital Schools in the United States". Department of the Interior Bulletin (17): 13."History of the Sanatorium May 3,1922". The Sanatorium Project. Retrieved 23 November 2021.Jun 3, 2014 · First, we will focus on the background history of Central State Hospital. Indianapolis’ first hospital for the insane as depicted by Hooiser pioneer artist Christian Schader. N ot long after Indiana moved its capital from Corydon to Indianapolis in 1825, the fledgling city found it needed a place to house and care for its citizens deemed ...
Indiana State Sanatorium. Phantoms of souls lost to tuberculosis may still haunt this sprawling hospital complex. 3838 East Old 36 Road Rockville, Indiana. + 1 (217) 369-2265. Location Website.
Jul 15, 2014 · The Indiana Medical History Museum, established in the Old Pathology Building in 1969, has welcomed visitors since 1984. A long Warman Avenue, on the eastern edge of the property, sit a row of houses built in the 1940s initially intended to be built as physician’s residences to entice doctors and nurses with free room and board.
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History and Timeline of the Indiana State Sanatorium. This page will never be updated on the progress compilation of the history of the site, buildings, and activities at the Sanatorium. As we learn more and obtain more information on the Sanatorium, it will be added here.
