Mackenzie and Smythe to construct a major addition to the hospital, in the form of an 'east wing' (see below). The Commission inspected public and private institutions for the insane and advised their boards of managers. Hillcrest Building (also known as the 'Criminal Building') still stands on the campus of UMBC. It has also been noted that Mr. Pratt donated, in addition to his time, several gifts to the Maryland Hospital over the years. Subsequently, the hospital was formally renamed as the Maryland Hospital for the Insane at Spring Grove, and it was placed under a new board of managers appointed by the governor (Acts of 1876). Spring Grove has a history far deeper than the experimental 1960s. On that date, there were at total of 36 patients at the hospital -- 26 of whom were termed 'lunatics' and 10 of whom were referred to as 'ordinary patients.' Patients were also directed into work and other The farm, which was purchased for $12,226, was known as 'Sunnyside.' For example, he reportedly donated billiards tables in the years 1863 and 1879. Although there were several major expansions of the building in later years, originally it had 18 patient care units or "wards" (later called "Halls") three floors, with three units en echelon on each floor of each wing. With the approval of the City Council, Dr. John Mackenzie, the son of Dr. Colin Mackenzie, took control of the hospital in 1827, following his father's death. In 1901 the women's Sewing Room made 60 Masquerade Suits for a fancy dress ball (Annual Report, 1901). The wiring will be in molding (sic), instead of concealed work, which will greatly facilitate access in case of accident. The oldest psychiatric hospital in the country is the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, which was founded in 1773 and remains in operation today as a psychiatric hospital. Design records indicate that ground water was pumped by a steam engine to several storage tanks that were located in the Hospital's towers and on its roof -- a fairly sophisticated system for the time. 12 Staggering Photos Of An Abandoned Mental Hospital Hiding In Maryland There's no shortage of abandoned places in Maryland and today we're featuring one that's among the most disturbing. Springfield was built according to what was called the 'cottage' plan, a scheme that called for a series of relatively small, often modest, patient 'cottages' that, while separate from each other, were frequently interconnected by covered walkways or porticos. The initial 'seed' money for the Hospital's construction, $8,000, was appropriated by the General Assembly on January 20, 1798. The following classification system was developed by Dr. R. G. B. Broome, who was one of the Spring Grove 'Medico-Psychological' physicians (psychiatrists) in 1874. Additional promenades and landscaping features were added. Suite P101 (The location ofthe quarry has not been determined by this writer, but some people believe that it was located at the site of today's Weltmer Bowl, Spring Grove's athletic field.) They were initially a place of healing for Native Americans until the settlers came along and built a hotel on the land in the 1840s. However, all other sources of information about the hospital's early history make what seem to be specific references to the construction of an entirely new building (albeit at the same site) in 1798. Rehabilitation Services Social Work Volunteer Services Main Number (Operator/Page) 410.402.6000 Toll Free Number (Operator) 866.734.3337 Chief Executive Office: 410.402.7455 Fax: 410.402.7094 Admissions Office ( 24-hour): 410.402.7398 Hospital Police: 410.402.7937 Medical Student Office: 410.402.7455 Fax: 410.402.7094 Questions, Ideas or Concerns? (See below. Male patients were primarily occupied with farm and workshop chores, while female patients were employed with housekeeping, laundry, sewing, and kitchen tasks such as vegetable preparation. Other sources indicate that it was already called Spring Grove at the time that it was acquired in 1852. It was cut off from the rest of the world and it very quickly became overcrowded and out of control. The first three Preston Complex buildings (Hill, Mitchell, and Sullivan) had been built a year or so earlier in anticipation of the demolition of the Main Building, and many of the remaining patients in the Main Building were moved to the Preston Complex (and other buildings on campus) during 1962 and 1963. (The Annual report of that year suggests that, unlike any of the other units in the hospital, the single African-American ward served both male and females patients.) Also in 1853, one of the just four new 'public' patient admissions in that year was an African-American female. By the end of November 1852 the commission had hired an architect,J.Crawford Neilson (J. Crawford Neilson (1816 - 1900) was a noted Baltimore architect and was one of the founders of the Baltimore chapter of the American Institute of Architects. However, other reports indicate that many, or even most, patients were kept in 'strict confinement' -- either in individual 'cells' or behind the hospital's high walls. New buildings provided stables and other farm buildings; a laundry; upholstery, shoe, tin, and metal shops; dormitories; and employee housing. The balance of the west wing, as well as the 'Center Building,' and the east wing were repaired, remodeled and improved in later years -- but these remaining portions of the building survived until they were demolished, along with the rest of the structure in the 1870s (see below). Bland-Bryant Building (1930). In addition, the property was also located in what had become a fairly densely populated and poorer section of Baltimore -- and among Mr. Hopkins' purposes in establishing a hospital was to provide for medical care to the indigent.. Construction of the new hospital at the Spring Grove site had resumed in 1868, but, apparently, on a limited scale -- due to a lack of money. Garrett Building (1932), the Here, scientists tested LSD and other chemicals as potential treatments for psychiatric illnesses until national controversy caught up with everybody and the research was shut down in 1976. The Rectory was the home of a priest accused of. Such claims must be considered within the context of the growing anti-Catholic sentiment of the era, and must also be balanced against historic evidence of the many selfless acts of the order. (Combination gas and electric chandeliers may be seen in some pictures from the turn of the 19th Century.) However, in 1868, following a change in Maryland's politics after the War, Dr. Sprigg-Steuart was reinstated as the President of the Hospital's Board of Visitor's. 1. The Main Building's design was based upon the work of Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, who served the Pennsylvania Hospital as superintendent from 1841-1883. Grove's treatment providers began to regularly use psychoanalytic techniques to treat certain patients. Join us for a walk around the Spring Grove Hospital Center campus to see this partially abandoned historic facility where, among other things, the first and longest government-run psychedelic drug research program took place. Spring Grove Hospital Center, formerly known as Spring Grove State Hospital, is a psychiatric hospital located in the Baltimore, Maryland, suburb of Catonsville. For example, it was noted that the water In 1828, following the death of the second original lessee, Dr. Colin Mackenzie, and in response to growing concerns about conditions at the hospital, the State of Maryland asserted its authority and resumed full Governance of the institution. Address: Spring Grove, 4521 Spring Grove Ave . david.helsel@maryland.gov. Founded in 1797, it is the second oldest continuously operating psychiatric hospital in the country. [1], Main Image Gallery: Spring Grove State Hospital, Spring Grove Hospital Center Alumni Museum, https://asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Spring_Grove_State_Hospital&oldid=39468. structured activities. Over the years, the Spring Grove continued to grow in size and, in short order, exceeded its intended patient capacity. Dr. Stueart was also replaced as the hospital's chief executive officer by John S. Conrad, M.D., who held the title of 'Medical Superintendent and Treasurer.'. In a report dated January 12, 1870, Dr. R. S. Steuart, the hospital's chief executive officer, summarized the bases of the decision to sell and abandon the Baltimore site and to move all of the hospital's operations to the 'new Hospital' as follows: (Taken from the Forty-First Report of the President and Visitors of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, Baltimore, for 1868 and 1869). (Note: The old 'Joppa' or 'Philadelphia Road' in this part of the City was abandoned in the 1840s. Spring As noted above, 'General' patients were treated in the middle sections of the building, and the wards that housed the convalescent patients were closest to the hospital building's main entrance. Jamison Building in 1981. For that reason, May 18, 1798 (the date that the property was purchased) is sometimes considered to be the anniversary of the founding of the hospital, since that seems to be the date that 'the Retreat' officially became a hospital and public psychiatric facility. May 11, 2022 / 10:45 PM / CBS Baltimore BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- By a vote of 2-1, the Maryland Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved transferring the campus of Spring Grove Hospital Center,. Spring City, PA 19475. The Board of Managers was abolished and its authority transferred to the new superintendent appointed by the commissioner of Mental Hygiene. A series of wings that were arranged in echelons emanated from the center building. There is also evidence that, at least initially, Hopkins was quite reluctant to do so. The primary modality used to treat mental illness at the time was called 'Moral Management.' Psychiatric hospitals do still exist, but long-term health care for mentally ill patients is very limited. Grove Hospital Center was founded in 1797 and is the second oldest psychiatric hospital in the United States. Today, the Dayhoff Building, the White Building, and portions of the Stone Cottages are located on land that was part of the 1909 'Sunnyside' farm acquisition and not, as might be imagined, part of the hospital's original parcel of land, acquired in 1853. Its wooden floor joists, some of which dated back to 1853, reportedly were rotten and at risk of collapsing; and it's heating, plumbing and electrical systems were dangerously outdated. From an architectural point of view, it may be of some interest to note that the Tawes Building was the most recent example of an architectural tradition seen in so many of the other buildings that have served the Hospital in its history. ], Dipsomania [Alcoholism - 48 of the hospital's 138 admissions that year. As noted above, records indicate that the original building, c.1798, stood at the far western end of the structure - closest to Market Street (Broadway). The Maryland Hospital for the Insane, often informally referred to as 'Spring Grove,' was officially renamed Spring Grove State Hospital in 1912 when funds were appropriated for additional hospital buildings (Acts of 1912). A number of documents refer to it simply as the 'Retreat.' However, it is most probably a newly-built building that was constructed in 1798 and opened that same year to house what would eventually become 'Spring Grove Hospital Center.'. The property, itself, has greatly enhanced in value, and can be sold for more than the land and improvements have cost the State, (from is commencement in 1797,) by which means, the treasury may be protected from the future cost of the completion of the new Asylum, now under construction, by Commissioners, who have that work in hand, and from whom we learn, the work may be regarded as one half completed and capable of full completion in one year, if appropriations are sufficiently large, and made at an early date. Thereafter, a newly formed Department of Mental Hygiene took control of the Maryland state hospital system, including Spring Grove State Hospital. The Hospital then reformed in 1973 as Spring Grove Hospital Center (Chapter 740, Acts of 1973). It is too small, and too defective in its construction. At the time, most of Maryland's seriously mentally ill, as well as those persons who were referred to as 'inebriates' (alcoholics) or as being 'feeble-minded' (mentally retarded), were kept in local jails and almshouses -- if they were poor or indigent, or were not able to be cared for at home. However, there is clear evidence that African-American slaves were admitted as patients. In any event, it is clear that it did not operate at Spring Grove after the Maryland Hospital relocated to the Catonsville site in 1872. (See below. There is evidence that the Centre Building and the East Wing, which had already been under construction (possibly since 1808), were completed later in, or shortly after, 1816. On April third of that year, the General Assembly passed an act that required the Maryland Hospital to be 'devoted exclusively to the treatment of lunatics.' The Dairy House survived on the campus of Spring Grove until the early 1990s when it burned to the ground in a fire that may have been set by an arsonist. However, Spring Grove has traditionally used November 2, 1797, that date of the legislation that its establishment specifically as a facility for the treatment of the mentally ill. By all accounts, construction of the expanded facility started shortly after funds were appropriated and the site was officially selected in 1798. At the turn of the 20th-century the hospital's farm yield thousands of bushels of produce each year. To begin with, the fresh water source was one of the hospital's spring-fed streams. ', Dr. Richard F. Gundry was appointed the In an 1896 the Hospital's new superintendent, Dr. J. Percy Wade, wrote: 'A local telephone, connecting the main office with all the wards, stable, carpenter shop and engine-room, has been installed and gives complete satisfaction. However, a condition of the will was that only interest from the endowment could be used for the construction and, therefore, the Hospital's trustees had to carefully limit the rate of construction, so as not to spend more than the annual income from the endowment. The increased number of patients necessitated the enlargement of the facilities. Instead, it appears that that structure was built specifically for the purpose in 1798 (see 'Founding of the Hospital,' below). It is believed that the original hospital building (circa 1798) was situated almost exactly where the well-known domed Administration Building of Johns Hopkins Hospital stands today, although this belief may not be precisely accurate. However, the State of Maryland did continue to exert some control over the hospital -- for example by making certain appointments to its board of directors. Steuart's brother, Major General George H. Steuart, had two sons who had mental illness,[7] and it is possible that this was one of the causes of Steuart's particular interest in Spring Grove Hospital and the treatment of mental illness. In addition, several buildings that were built at the site a matter of only several years after the Main Building opened are still extant. Examples of cottage plan buildings at Spring Grove include Other treatment interventions used in psychiatric hospitals duringthis period included the administration of various medications, including opioids (such as Laudanum) and other sedatives, and warm and cold baths. With the active encouragement of Dr. Sprigg-Steuart and Ms. Dix, an additional $10,000 was appropriated by the General Assembly in 1852 to begin construction of the new hospital building. Johns Hopkins, the wealthy Baltimore merchant and investor after whom both the university and the hospital are named, had been involved for two decades in the oversight of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane as a member of its Board of Visitors and as part of his many philanthropic activities. Once a valiant hospital of its time,. The report goes on to mention that the hospital was deeply in debt -- primarily to local banks, such as the National Bank of Baltimore and the Eutaw Savings Bank -- Although the property was sold to Johns Hopkins in 1870, and although Mr. Hopkins agreed to pay for the property before he was actually able to take possession of it so that the proceeds could be used to finish the new facilities at Spring Grove, the new hospital building was several years away from completion -- and so an agreement was reached at the time of the sale for the State to lease the property back from Mr. from which the 'fresh' water for drinking and bathing was collected. Vision Spring Grove Hospital will be recognized as a national leader for excellence in psychiatric care, research and education. https://health.maryland.gov/springgrove/Pages/home.aspx, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, "James E. Steuart Papers, 1785-1955, MS 758 - Maryland Historical Society", "Baltimore County takes next step to purchase Spring Grove land", "Baltimore County makes move to purchase Spring Grove land for regional park | Maryland News Feed", "Hogan administration proposes selling Spring Grove Hospital campus in Catonsville to UMBC for $1", "Hospital sale to UMBC for $1 is approved", "Bd. Get Directions CONTACT In the following year, 1912, most of the remaining male patients of African descent were transferred from Spring Grove to Crownsville. For example, a report made to the House of Delegates by 'The Committee on the Part of the House of Delegates Appointed to Visit and Inspect the Maryland Hospital' (1834) indicates that the west wing of the building was in such bad repair that it was not being used. It has also been called the 'Hospital for Strangers and Mariners,' the 'Hospital for Seamen and Strangers,' and as the 'Retreat for Strangers and Mariners.' From the outside the building was still quite impressive in its appearance and, in fact, it received some national attention as a monumental building and was considered a Baltimore landmark for many years. At first, the new facility at Spring Grove seems to have been racially integrated. Their efforts were rewarded when, on November 2, 1797 (Spring Grove's official 'birthday'), the Legislature passed an act to authorize the erection of the facility. Before the Civil War, free and enslaved African Americans were also patients here. Preston Complex (originally known as the 'Men's Group,' for convalescent males), starting with the Preston Building, were built between 1962(Preston, Hill, Mitchell, Sullivan) and 1969 (Dix and Noyes). This action, of course, raised the specter of the State losing its entire investment through foreclosure should the General Assembly continue to refuse to appropriate additional funding. Despite the less than ideal circumstances for African-American patients at Spring Grove in the 19th and early 20th Century, conditions were far worse in the almshouses and jails -- where many mentally ill African-American Maryland citizens were confined. From the beginning, the Main Building had running water, flush toilets, gas lighting and forced air central heating. It is impossible to provide for this class of insane in State Hospital without associating them with the white patients. Patients and staff joined together to form social clubs and musical groups. Baltimore's Almshouse, the predecessor of the present-day Hopkins Bay View Hospital, was established in 1773. The Athletic Field, formally known as the floor plans of the building, c.1853, indicate that indoor plumbing and 'water closets' (flushing toilets) were part of the original design. PennHurst, the legendary haunted hospital complex has opened its doors after 25 years and is accepting new patients! For example, it was noted that a number of counties (Allegany, Calvert, Dorchester and Prince George's) collectively owed the hospital $1,489.05. Today, Spring Grove treats around 300 patients, a fraction of its 1960 population. By 1815 the hospital was sometimes referred to as 'The Hospital in the Vicinity of Baltimore' -- the use of the phrase 'in the vicinity' possibly referenced the fact that part or all of the hospital's property may have extended beyond the 1815 Baltimore city limits. According to a number of sources, the disagreement was over the fact that the Sisters refused to recognize that the decisions of the hospital's physicians were 'supreme' in all clinical and administrative matters. What do patients say about Spring Grove Hospital Center ? Spring Grove Hospital Center in Baltimore, MD is not nationally ranked in any specialty. The circular lawn seen in front of the Main Building in the above picture exists today as the "island" at the center of the traffic circle near today's Administration Building on Ash Street. However, although some medical services to the infirm were provided there, the Almshouse was not a hospital and offered only limited medical care and few vocational, recreational or rehabilitative services and therapies in what was primarily a shelter for the homeless. However, if these reports are accurate, the first use of the new facility at Spring Grove was as a Civil War (1861-1865) army hospital for wounded and sick servicemen. For example, records indicate that during the yellow fever epidemic of 1819, 145 yellow fever 'victims' were admitted to the City Hospital of Baltimore (the then contemporary name for Spring Grove), 85 of whom died. (Mr. Dayhoff's primary role with the hospital at the time was as the 'Director of Amusements' -- a title that placed him in charge of what today would be called activity therapy. In the 1890s, that meant locating the new hospital farther away from the City of Baltimore than relatively nearby Catonsville. Mania, Puerperal [i.e., Related to Childbirth], Monomania [i.e., Related to a single idea or obsession, usually paranoid in nature], Amenomania [Related to menopause or 'Uterine Derangements' - about 8% of the hospital's admissions. Founded in 1797, Spring Grove State Hospital, now known as Spring Grove Hospital Center, is the second oldest continuously operating state psychiatric hospital in the country. On January 1, 1853 the Hospital also had 10 African-American Patients (six men and four women). Male patients resided on the north wing of the building (known as the 'Male Department) and female patient were housed in the south wing (known as the 'Female Department.') 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