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Abandoned To Functional: The Search For Historical Integrity In The Adaptive Reuses Of Kirkbride State Mental Hospitals, Caitlin E. Merritt
Abandoned To Functional: The Search For Historical Integrity In The Adaptive Reuses Of Kirkbride State Mental Hospitals, Caitlin E. Merritt
Historic Preservation Theses
Purpose: This thesis intends to understand historical integrity and how it plays a role in historic rehabilitation and adaptive reuse projects. More importantly, this study allows for a better understanding of the Kirkbride Plan as a particular building type that dominated state mental hospital design in between 1848-1890 and advanced the field of psychiatry. This study examines three adaptively reused Kirkbride hospitals Athens State Hospital, Athens, OH; Weston State Hospital, Weston, WV; and Danvers State Hospital Danvers MA. The three case studies were surveyed using the National Park Service seven aspects of historical integrity, to examine if historical integrity was …