Tag: Central State Hospital for the Insane
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A quick visit to Central State
Photographs of some of the buildings at Indianapolis’s former Central State Hospital for the Insane.
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The Central State Hospital for the Insane
For nearly 150 years, those thought to be intractably mentally ill in Indiana were housed there. It opened in 1848 as The Indiana State Hospital for the Insane, on more than 100 acres facing the fledgling National Road just west of Indianapolis. In 1889, as other asylums opened around the state, its name changed to Central…