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WEST
CAMPUS:
Exterior
Center
Building
Interior
Center Building
Interior
& Exterior Misc Buildings
Black
& White Photographs
EAST
CAMPUS:
East
Campus Photographs
&
Sesquicentennial Celebration
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St. Elizabeths Hospital in
Washington, DC, formerly known as the Government Hospital for the
Insane, was established in 1855. St. Elizabeths is divided into two
campuses: the East Campus is still operational and currently houses
John Hinckley, Jr. while the West Campus, that once housed
famous poet Ezra Pound from 1946 to 1958, has closed most of it's
buildings since the late 1980's. The photos on this page were
taken on the West Campus where the original hospital (Center Building)
is located. St. Elizabeths has the distinction of being the only
hospital that interred black and white, Union and Confederate
soldiers together within the same cemetery. This hospital is
also responsible for the beginning of the
Blackburn-Neumann Collection. A 15,000 specimen assortment of
human brain samples with cases documenting pre-antibiotic infectious
diseases, schizophrenia, and mental disorders treated by electroshock,
metrazol, insulin shock, and lobotomies. The collection was
transferred from St. Elizabeths to the National Museum of Health and
Medicine in 1993.
Center Bldg. Architect:
Thomas U. Walter-also designed the US Capitol
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