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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.

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