{"id":26,"date":"2008-01-24T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/the-lost-kirkbrides-arkansas-state-hospital"},"modified":"2008-04-07T15:28:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T19:28:18","slug":"the-lost-kirkbrides-arkansas-state-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/the-lost-kirkbrides-arkansas-state-hospital","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Kirkbrides: Arkansas State Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/01\/24\/1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Arkansas State Hospital\" width=\"484\" height=\"327\" \/><br \/>\nA little while back, someone from the Arkansas History Commission &amp; State Archives informed me that there was once a Kirkbride at the state hospital in Little Rock. I had suspected that there was one there, but wasn&#8217;t sure until I got their email. The stunning building pictured above opened as the Arkansas Lunatic Asylum in 1883. Unfortunately, it was demolished in the 1960s. You can learn the asylum&#8217;s history at <a title=\"Arkansas State Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net\/encyclopedia\/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2238\">this web page<\/a> which also includes a few more images. I&#8217;ve added Arkansas, and a few other lost Kirkbrides, to the <a title=\"Demolished Kirkbride Buildings\" href=\"http:\/\/kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/demolished.html\">list of demolished Kirkbrides<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while back, someone from the Arkansas History Commission &amp; State Archives informed me that there was once a Kirkbride at the state hospital in Little Rock. I had suspected that there was one there, but wasn&#8217;t sure until I got their email. The stunning building pictured above opened as the Arkansas Lunatic Asylum [&hellip;]<\/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":[1,32],"tags":[77,78,145],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-web-sites","tag-arkansas","tag-arkansas-state-hospital","tag-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}