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Mental hospitals designed on the plan recommendations of Thomas Story Kirkbride. This category includes web sites for non-Kirkbride-related features on mental hospital grounds that have or once had Kirkbride buildings.

Athens State Hospital

Former asylum in Ohio, opened in 1874 as The Athens Mental Health Center and later known as Athens Mental Health and Retardation Center, Athens State Hospital and The Ridges, the site of which is now absorbed into the Ohio University, Athens Ohio campus, where the Kirkbride building has found new use as Lin Hall - Kennedy Museum of American Art.

Brattleboro Retreat

The first institution for psychiatric care in Vermont.

Danvers State Hospital

Landmark Eastern Massachusetts asylum building built in Gothic Revival style (1874-1878) to the design of Nathaniel Bradlee.

Northampton State Hospital

Mental institution in Massachusetts that has been closed since 1993.

Traverse City State Hospital

Asylum building complex founded in 1885 in Traverse City, Michigan, featuring main Kirkbride-plan building designed by Gordon W. Lloyd

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