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Section, Cast Iron Stair Detail and Window Details - St. Elizabeths Hospital, Atkins Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 518-542 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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Burian, Andrew, creator
Title
Section, Cast Iron Stair Detail and Window Details - St. Elizabeths Hospital, Atkins Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 518-542 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS DC-349-T (sheet 11 of 11)
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  • Significance: Atkins Hall (Building 31) is significant for its association with the treatment of mental illness on the St. Elizabeths campus. Atkins Hall was the first white patient ward constructed separately from the Center Building group, as part of a building program in the 1870s and 1880s to relieve overcrowding in the original buildings. Its free-standing design represented an architectural shift in the standard treatment philosophy. Starting

with Atkins Hall, new patient ward buildings were constructed as detached cottages, clustered in small groups, rather than as large ward buildings. Each building group was designed and designated for a specialized patient type. The architecture of the cottages allowed for the separation of patients and maintained the peaceful family atmosphere of the ward units but without the constraints or limitations of a single large building. Atkins Hall formed an integral part of the function and use of St. Elizabeths for the treatment of mental illness and related disabilities. Atkins Hall is also significant for its architectural design, with its open ward plan, use of red brick masonry with painted accents, divided-light windows, slate-covered hip roof, and wood-framed open porch. The design of Atkins Hall established the pattern for other detached ward buildings constructed on campus in the 1870s and 1880s.

  • Survey number: HABS DC-349-T
  • Building/structure dates: 1878 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 79003101.

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Wiss, Janney, Elstner and Associates, Inc., contractor
Mills and Schnoering Architects, contractor
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc1096.sheet.00011a
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