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The Dorothea Dix Hospital was the first North Carolina psychiatric hospital, located on Dix Hill in Raleigh, North Carolina, and named after mental health advocate Dorothea Dix from New England. It was founded in 1856 and closed in 2012.
Oct 11, 2016 · Dorothea Dix Hospital was known for almost a century as a lunatic asylum, as seen here in the inset to the 1872 "Bird's Eye View" map of Raleigh. The now-shuttered Raleigh psychiatric facility has a storied history that extends back more than a century-and-a-half. By Thomas Goldsmith and Rose Hoban.
Jan 1, 2006 · Architect Alexander Jackson Davis designed the hospital's main building to accommodate 274 patients. For the next seven years, construction of the new hospital advanced slowly on a hill overlooking Raleigh. The hospital opened in 1856 as the North Carolina Hospital for the Mentally Ill.
Jul 13, 2018 · Best known as a tireless advocate for psychiatric care for the poor and disenfranchised, Dorothea Dix is chiefly responsible for the mass construction of state mental hospitals in the U.S. in...
Dec 12, 2019 · Mental Health. As a new Dix park gathers momentum, site’s history provides complex context. As planning continues for a destination park on the site of the former Dorothea Dix Hospital, former employees looked back on what made the facility special and how it should be remembered. by Thomas Goldsmith December 12, 2019.
Dorothea Lynde Dix was a New Englander born in 1802. Shocked by what she saw of the treatment of women with mental illnesses in Boston in 1841 she became a determined campaigner for reform and was instrumental in improving care for people with mental illnesses in state after state.
Nov 7, 1990 · Dorothea Dix Hospital of North Carolina. Quick Facts. Location: Southwest Jct. Dorothea Dr. & Lake Wheeler Rd., Raleigh, North Carolina. Significance: Health/Medicine, Landscape Architecture, Architecture. Designation: National Register of Historic Places. OPEN TO PUBLIC: No.
