450 Maple St., Danvers, Massachusetts. County/parish: Essex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 26, 1984. NRIS 84002436.
29 contributing buildings.Also known as:
The Danvers State Hospital, also known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, The Danvers Lunatic Asylum, and The Danvers State Insane Asylum, was a psychiatric hospital located in Danvers, Massachusetts. It was built in 1874 and opened in 1878, under the supervision of prominent Boston architect Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee, on an isolated site in rural Massachusetts. It was a multi-acre, self-contained psychiatric hospital designed and built according to the Kirkbride Plan.
The hospital was closed permanently in 1992. Despite the building's being included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, most of it was demolished in 2007.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794636