{"id":137,"date":"2008-09-03T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-09-10T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T20:42:03","slug":"saint-peter-state-hospital-still-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/saint-peter-state-hospital-still-standing","title":{"rendered":"Saint Peter State Hospital: Still Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nContinuing a theme from my last post<\/a>, I have it from a good authority that the Kirkbride building in Saint Peter, Minnesota is still partially standing. I had it down in the demolished column, but it turns out I was wrong once again! I’ve updated the list of Kirkbride buildings<\/a> accordingly. Sorry about that…<\/p>\n

The administration center is what remains. The wings were torn down in the 1960s and 70s. I haven’t seen it for myself yet (obviously), but I’m told there’s a museum there which can be visited by appointment. The hospital itself is still active, so I recommend making that appointment before going to take a look. Call 507-931-7182 for more information.<\/p>\n

The only semi-recent image of the building I’ve been able to find online is this one<\/a> (which I found here<\/a>). It looks a bit on the plain side, but if you live in the area it’s be worth going to see, especially for the museum.<\/p>\n

I’m a little embarrassed over being wrong about the status of this building and the one in Anna, Illinois, but I actually hope I turn out to be wrong about even more Kirkbrides that I’ve listed as demolished. It’s a nice surprise to learn that a building I thought was gone is still standing, even if it isn’t quite what it used to be. Still, I don’t think there’ll be many more popping up like this unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing a theme from my last post, I have it from a good authority that the Kirkbride building in Saint Peter, Minnesota is still partially standing. I had it down in the demolished column, but it turns out I was wrong once again! I’ve updated the list of Kirkbride buildings accordingly. Sorry about that… The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,160],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-saint-peter","tag-saint-peter-state-hospital"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}