Center Building at St. Elizabeths Hospital
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Center Building at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. This building is one of the oldest on the hospital campus. Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia
This file appears in: Saint Elizabeths Hospital Historic District: Saint Elizabeths is one of the nation’s earliest and most significant institutions for the treatment of mental illness.
Saint Elizabeths Hospital Historic District: Saint Elizabeths is one of the nation’s earliest and most significant institutions for the treatment of mental illness.
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…