Nevada State Hospital was a public psychiatric hospital in Nevada, Missouri, constructed in 1887. The hospital was built in the design of the Kirkbride Plan. [1]
History
Provisions for the hospital were approved by the state of Missouri in 1885, and the hospital was constructed in 1887. [1] [2] The hospital officially closed in 1991, and was demolished in 1999. [1]
Notable patients
- David W. Stark, member of the Missouri State Legislature
References
Works cited
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Nevada State Hospital.
- Hurd, Henry Mills, ed. (1916).
The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada. Vol. 2. Johns Hopkins Press. p. 434.
ISBN
9780405052101 – via Google Books.
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