Center Building at St. Elizabeths Hospital

ID: 2867 ~ Source: Wiki Commons ~ Creator: Library of Congress ~ Date: between circa 1909 and circa 1932
This file appears in: Saint Elizabeths Hospital Historic District
Center Building at St. Elizabeths Hospital

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

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…