- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of center building at State Lunatic Asylum, Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, 1894]
- Date of Original:
- 1894
- Subject:
- Mental health--Georgia
Psychiatric hospitals--Georgia--Milledgeville
Georgia State Sanitarium at Milledgeville
Architecture--Georgia--Milledgeville
Public Health--Georgia--Milledgeville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- 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.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_bal027
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:bal027
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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