Terrell State Hospital

Terrell State Hospital
Terrell State Hospital, original building
Geography
Location	Terrell, Texas, United States
Organization
Care system	Texas Department of State Health Services
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Psychiatric hospital
History
Former name(s)	North Texas Lunatic Asylum [1] North Texas Hospital for the Insane [1]
Opened	July 14, 1885;140 years ago (1885-07-14) [1]
Links
Website	www.hhs.texas.gov/services/mental-health-substance-use/state-hospitals/terrell-state-hospital
Lists	Hospitals in Texas

Terrell State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital located in Terrell, Texas, United States. Opened in 1885, it was originally known as the North Texas Lunatic Asylum. ^[1] The original hospital building was built according to the Kirkbride Plan. ^[2]

Notable people

• Oscar Branch Colquitt - 25th Governor of Texas, served on the board of managers. ^{[3] : 402}

References

1. Hart, Brian (1 July 1995) [1976]. "Terrell State Hospital". Handbook of Texas Online . Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
2. "Terrell State Hospital". Kirkbride Buildings. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
3. Lucko, Paul M. (1 January 2003). "The Governor and the Bat: Prison Reform during the Oscar B. Colquitt Administration, 1911-1915". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly . 106 (3). Texas State Historical Association: 396–471. ISSN   0038-478X. JSTOR   30239345. OCLC   1766223. p. 402: Colquitt, who formerly served on the board of managers for the Terrell State Insane Asylum, did, however, express a great deal of empathy for prisoners and other wards of the state.

Further reading

• Britton, Benny (2008). Terrell State Hospital, 1883–2008. Volunteer Services Council of Terrell State Hospital. OCLC   464640093.
• Keller, Mabel Covington (August 1950). "VI. Terrell". History of Kaufman County, Texas (MSc). pp. 122–123. Retrieved 18 April 2022– via University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library.
• Yanni, Carla (12 April 2007). The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States (First ed.). University of Minnesota Press. ISBN   978-0-8166-4940-2. LCCN   2007003766. OL   8070992M.
• "Who's Mental and Who's Dead?". The Rag . Vol. 9, no. 31. 2 July 1975. p. 8. ISSN   0033-8621. JSTOR   community.28043358 . OCLC   1586244.

External links

• Official website

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