Vermont State Hospital

Vermont State Hospital
Operating as the Waterbury State Office Complex, 2023
Geography
Location	103 South Main Street, Waterbury, Vermont, United States
Coordinates	44°19′55″N 72°45′02″W / 44.331816°N 72.750548°W / 44.331816; -72.750548
Organization
Funding	Public hospital
Type	Specialist
Services
Beds	54
Speciality	Psychiatric
History
Opened	1891
Closed	2011
Links
Website	Archived website
Vermont State Hospital Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Area	36.3 acres (14.7 ha)
Architect	Rand and Taylor Charles Wyman Buckham Payson Rex Webber; et al.
Architectural style	Late Victorian, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	16000765
Added to NRHP	November 8, 2016
Lists	Hospitals in Vermont

Vermont State Hospital,^[1] alternately known as the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane and the Waterbury Asylum, was a mental institution built in 1890 in Waterbury, Vermont to help relieve overcrowding at the privately run Vermont Asylum for the Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont, now known as the Brattleboro Retreat. Originally intended to treat the criminally insane, the hospital eventually took in patients with a wide variety of problems, including mild to severe mental disabilities, epilepsy, depression, alcoholism and senility.^[2] The hospital campus, much of which now houses other state offices as the Waterbury State Office Complex, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.^[3] Partly as a replacement for this facility, the state currently operates the 25 bed Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital in Berlin, Vermont.^{[citation needed]}