Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
An architectural drawing for the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital.
The hospital, the second state mental health facility built in Maine, sits atop Hepatica Hill. It opened on July 1, 1901.
It was built because of overcrowding at the hospital in Augusta, which opened in 1840.
It was thought that patients needed rest and the site was away from downtown Bangor.
About This Item
- Title: Eastern Maine Insane Hospital, Bangor, 1896
- Creator: John Calvin Stevens
- Creation Date: 1896
- Subject Date: 1896
- Location: Bangor, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Architectural drawing
- Local Code: Coll. 209, OS1-D-9, JCS0599-3-1899
- Collection: Stevens Architects drawings and records collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Architectural drawings--1890-1900--Maine--Bangor
- Hospital architecture
- Hospitals--Maine--Bangor
- Mental health
People
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- Architecture, buildings & monuments
- Arts, literature & entertainment
- asylum
- medicine
- mental illness
- science
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