Center building at Saint Elizabeths

ID: 2866 ~ Source: Wiki Commons ~ Date: August 2006
This file appears in: Saint Elizabeths Hospital Historic District
Center building at Saint Elizabeths

The Center Building at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Like most buildings at St. Elizabeths, this one has been abandoned. The Center Building is one of the oldest buildings on the campus, dating to the American Civil War era.

This file appears in: Saint Elizabeths Hospital Historic District

Established largely through the efforts of Dorothea Dix, the leading mental health reformer of the 19th century, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was chartered by Congress in 1852 as the Government Hospital for the Insane, with a mission of providing “the…