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Aerial
Drawing of Manteno State Hospital
Detail Showing Administration Building
(CLICK for entire
drawing in new window - 100KB)
Manteno
State Hospital was unfortunately never built to these
specifications.
Schmidt, Garden and Martin Records,
Ryerson and Burnham Archives, The Art Institute of
Chicago
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Preparations
for a New State Hospital, Manteno. |
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Panoramic
of Cottage Construction
(from Administration Building looking
west)
Schmidt, Garden and Martin Records, Ryerson and Burnham
Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago |
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The
Administration Building of the Manteno State Hospital.
The present building program will give this institution
a bad capacity of 6,400. Plans are for an ultimate capacity
of 10,000. |
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Partial
view of the institution campus from the tower of the
power plant looking toward the administration building
in center background. |
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The
Diagnostic Center (Singer) completed in 1937. |
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The
Mechanics Building also completed within the past year.
(1937) |
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New
recreational center (Hinton Hall) at Manteno State Hospital.
It has a seating capacity of 1800 persons. |
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The
hospital building (Bowen) for the care of the physically
ill patients at the Manteno State Hospital. |
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New
Forbes Center where all activity therapy programs are
conducted. |
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Carriel
Infirmary, opened at Manteno State Hospital in September
1955, accommodates 180 patients. It was
named in memory of Dr. Henry F. Carriel, who gave many
years of distinguished service in mental hospitals in
Illinois. |
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and captions from Annual Reports of the Illinois Department
of Public Welfare and Illinois Department of Mental Health. |
