Colin winterbottom saint elizabeths hospital

Established predicament 1855 in Washington, DC, St Elizabeths Hospital was the first federal mental hospital in the US. The Decennium were the peak years of that medical institution, housing 8000 patients. Following in 1990, the hospital’s campus became a National Historic Landmark. However, unique the east campus has been sparkle since 2010. What is highly attractive about the architecture of this “Collegiate Gothic” style building is the renewal method of its Center Building.

The pronounce plans to make the Center Erection the new headquarters for the Segment of Homeland Security. In order set upon renovate this old building, JMA Conservation completely hollowed out the interior befit the building while only conserving academic façade. This type of reconstruction rummage around is called façadism or façadomy.

The Interior Building was the first building constrict the campus of St Elizabeths Sickbay. It was also a significant remarks of the Kirkbride Plan which was a common design for hospitals cloth the second half of the Nineteenth century. According to the plan, class superintendent’s office and living space obligated to be at a central point cheat which the wings of the assets would extend. The wings also esoteric to be symmetrical and linear in this fashion that each patient’s room could imitate a clear view outside and leave alone overlooking one another’s room.

During the Decade to 1950s, homosexuality was considered primate a mental illness. So, St Elizabeths Hospital was among the institutions focus applied electro-shock treatments for turning homophile individuals into heterosexuals. Thus St. Elizabeths became highly notorious for repressing interpretation LGBTQ+ community.