Aradale Mental Hospital

Aradale Mental Hospital
Map
Geography
LocationArarat, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates37°17′S 142°56′E / 37.28°S 142.93°E / -37.28; 142.93
Organisation
TypeSpecialist
Services
Emergency departmentNot Applicable
Beds900+[1]
SpecialityPsychiatric
History
Opened1865
Closed1998
Links
Websitewww.aradale.com.au
ListsHospitals in Australia
Other linksList of Australian psychiatric institutions

Aradale Mental Hospital was an Australian psychiatric hospital, located in Ararat, a rural city in south-west Victoria, Australia. Originally known as Ararat Lunatic Asylum, Aradale and its two sister asylums at Kew and Beechworth were commissioned to accommodate the growing number of 'lunatics' in the colony of Victoria. Construction began in 1864, and the guardhouses are listed as being built in 1866 though the list of patients extends as far back as the year before (1865). It was closed as an asylum in 1998 and in 2001 became a campus of the Melbourne Polytechnic (Previously known as NMIT) administered Melbourne Polytechnic's Ararat Training Centre.

  1. ^ "Aradale". Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.