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Athens Lunatic Asylum Architecture

The Athens Lunatic asylum consists of Adams, Athens, Gallia, Highland, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton and Washington counties. The land was purchased from Coates farm that had originally owned the land for over six years before the hospital was built. With a total of 1,019 acres, the land consisted of five different types of land: cultivated (344 acres), wooded (274 acres), pasture (299 acres), campused (100 acres) and recreation (2 acres). Although not a self-sustaining facility, for many years the hospital had livestock, farm fields and gardens, an orchard, greenhouses, a dairy, a physical plant to generate steam heat, and even a carriage shop in the earlier years. The architect for the original building was Levi T. Scofield of Cleveland. Based on the Kirkbride plan, the main building was to include an administration building and two wings that included three sections. The males were housed in the left wards and females in the right. They each had their own specific dining halls. There was room to house 572 patients in the main building. Almost double of what Kirkbride had recommended. The building itself was 853 feet long and 60 feet in width. Also built onto the main building in the back were a laundry room and a boiler house. Seven cottages were constructed to house even more patients. They could hold less capacity than the wards, but they grouped patients in dormitory like styles. The designs of the buildings and grounds were influenced by Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, a 19th century physician who authored an influential treatise on hospital design called, On the Construction, Organization and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane. Kirkbride buildings are most recognizably characterized by their "bat wing" floor plan and often lavish Victorian-era architecture. Herman Haerlin of Cincinnati designed the hospital grounds. Some of Haerlin's other landscape designs are seen in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery and the Oval on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus. The original Athens Lunatic Asylum situated on a hill south of the Hocking River. The Athens Mental Hospital grounds was built on the top of a hillside in the late 1860s, and is completely stable due to its position atop the hill rather than on a slope.

Utilities The water came from institution wells, each with 1050 G.P.M capacity. The electricity came from institution plants, with two steam turbo-generators holding 700 KW each. The sewerage came from the city of Athens facilities and the heat came from institution plants with coal-fired boilers.

Administration Building Construction began in 1868, completed in 1875 60,000 total sq feet 4 floors Basement and attic 95 total rooms Present use: administration Conditions: fair and good Cost to replace: $903,000 Present value: $285,400

Farm Office Building Year completed: 1900 600 total sq feet 1 floor 2 rooms Present use: administration Condition: good Cost to replace: $3,000 Present Value: $1,900

Amusement Hall Year completed: 1900 7,163 total sq feet 2 floors 3 rooms Present use: recreation Condition: good Cost to replace: $93,100 Present value: $32,700

Male Wards Year completed: 1873 76,501 total sq feet 3-4 floors Basement and attic 265 rooms Present use: residence Condition: fair Cost to replace: $1,228,800 Present Value: $486,900

Female Wards Year completed: 1873 96,343 total sq feet 3-4 floors Basement and attic 351 rooms Present use: 351 Condition: Good – fair Cost to replace: $1,541,500 Present value: $610,700

Physicians Units Year completed: 1951 2,322 total sq feet each 2 floors Basement 12 rooms each Present use: residence Condition: good Cost to replace: $43,500 each Present value: $34,500 each

Farms Manager Residence Year completed: 1885 840 total sq feet 1 floor Partial basement and attic 5 rooms Present use: residence Condition: good Cost to replace: $5,500 Present Value: $2,700

Female Dining Hall Year completed: 1905 800 total sq feet 1 floor Basement 1 room Present use: maintenance Condition: poor Cost to replace: $10,400 Present value: $1,300

Male Dining Hall Year completed: 1888 27,232 total sq feet 2 floors Basement and attic 36 rooms Present use: food service Condition: good Cost to replace: $367,600 Present value: $80,400

Laundry Building Year completed: 1956 17,284 total sq feet 1 floor Basement 10 rooms Present use: laundry services Cost to replace: $172,800 Present value: $147,800

Power Plant Year completed: 1951 16,526 total sq feet 2 floors Partial basement Present use: heating and electricity Condition: good Cost to replace: $544,000 Present value: $445,500

Dmk1510 (talk) 23:59, 29 January 2012 (UTC) Deanna Kelly