Danvers State Hospital

Danvers State Hospital
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Map
Geography
LocationDanvers, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates42°34′52″N 70°58′28″W / 42.581234°N 70.974394°W / 42.581234; -70.974394
Organization
FundingPublic hospital
TypeSpecialist
Services
SpecialityPsychiatric
History
Construction started1874
Opened1878
Closed1992
Demolished2006
Links
ListsHospitals in Massachusetts
Danvers State Hospital
Danvers State Hospital, c. 1893
Danvers State Hospital is located in Massachusetts
Danvers State Hospital
LocationDanvers, Massachusetts, United States
Built1874
ArchitectNathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee
Architectural styleGothic
NRHP reference No.84002436
Added to NRHPJanuary 26, 1984

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.

Despite being included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, the majority of the building was demolished in 2007.[1]

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