[Photograph of center building at State Lunatic Asylum, Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, 1894]

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Center Building at the Georgia State Lunatic Asylum, now known as Central State Hospital. The building is today known as the Powell Building, named for Dr. Theophilus Orgain Powell who was superintendent 1879-1907. Note the summerhouse, which resembles a gazebo, in front of the building. Bands often used the summerhouse entertaining patients. The Powell Building built in the 1850s and has undergone many additions. Milledgeville, Georgia, circa 1894.
Title
en [Photograph of center building at State Lunatic Asylum, Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, 1894]
Description
en Milledgeville, 1894. Center Building at State Lunatic Asylum, now known as Central State Hospital. The building is today known as the Powell Building, probably named for Dr. Theophilus Orgain Powell who was superintendent 1879-1907. Note summerhouse in front. Bands often used it when they entertained for the patients. Powell Building built in 1850s with later additions.
Access Rights
en Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260., Contact repository re: reproduction and usage.
Date
en 1894
Format
en image/jpeg, image/x-mrsid
Is Referenced By
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/id:bal027
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Source
en Georgia Archives
Spatial Coverage
en United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
Subject
en Mental health--Georgia
en Asylums--Georgia--Milledgeville
en Georgia State Sanitarium at Milledgeville
en Architecture--Georgia--Milledgeville
en Public Health--Georgia--Milledgeville
Type
en StillImage
Item sets
Demo Item Set - Omeka!
Site pages
Early Nursing Training at Central State
Media
Center Building at the Georgia State Lunatic Asylum, now known as Central State Hospital. The building is today known as the Powell Building, named for Dr. Theophilus Orgain Powell who was superintendent 1879-1907. Note the summerhouse, which resembles a gazebo, in front of the building. Bands often used the summerhouse entertaining patients. The Powell Building built in the 1850s and has undergone many additions. Milledgeville, Georgia, circa 1894. https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vanga/photos/bal/jpg/bal027.jpg

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