Down the Road

Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Since 2007

Tag: Central State Hospital for the Insane

  • A quick visit to Central State

    Photographs of some of the buildings at Indianapolis’s former Central State Hospital for the Insane.

  • 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…