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FIRST FLOOR WAITING ROOM, FIREPLACE ON SOUTH WALL - Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, Forty-fourth and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
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Holden, Isaac
Sloan, Samuel
Kirkbride, Thomas D
Webster, Richard J, historian
Dillon, Theodore F, photographer
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
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FIRST FLOOR WAITING ROOM, FIREPLACE ON SOUTH WALL - Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, Forty-fourth and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Philadelphia County; Philadelphia
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS PA,51-PHILA,511-8
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  • Significance: Pioneer example of mental-hospital architecture using extended wings to permit maximum isolation of wards. Popularly named for Dr. Thomas S. Kirkbride, hospital superintendent 1841-83 and formulator of advanced methods for treating the mentally ill.
  • Survey number: HABS PA-1636
  • Building/structure dates: 1836-1840 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1846-1847 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1849 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1872-1880 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1959 Demolished
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1041.photos.138960p
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Object location39° 57′ 07.99″ N, 75° 09′ 51.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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