2. South elevation - St. Elizabeths Hospital, Hitchcock Hall, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Southeast, 588-604 Redwood Street, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

ID: 2871 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Creator: Jack Boucher, photographer ~ Date: 2005

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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.

By The DC Historic Sites team

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…