{"id":36,"date":"2008-03-03T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/the-lost-kirkbrides-mendocino-state-hospital"},"modified":"2008-03-03T10:50:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T15:50:33","slug":"the-lost-kirkbrides-mendocino-state-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/the-lost-kirkbrides-mendocino-state-hospital","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Kirkbrides: Mendocino State Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/03\/03\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Mendocino State Hospital\" \/><br \/>\nLooking through my &#8220;archives&#8221;, I came across this image. It&#8217;s an architect&#8217;s drawing for the planned Mendocino State Asylum for the Insane. I&#8217;m not sure if this exact building was ever constructed though. There <em>was<\/em> a Mendocino State Hospital\u2014it was built in Talmage, California and opened in 1893. Its main building was demolished in 1952.<\/p>\n<p>The best images I&#8217;ve found on the web show a building similar to the one above, but without the segmented wings and a radically different admin. It&#8217;s hard to tell if the building plan was changed, the existing building was modified, or if images like the ones below are of an entirely different\u00a0structure.<\/p>\n<p>1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.fas.harvard.edu\/~wellerst\/collection\/image.cgi?hospital_mendocino4\" title=\"Image: Mendocino State Hospital\">Image: Mendocino State Hospital<\/a><br \/>\n2) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificsites.com\/~rparker\/msh1.jpg\" title=\"Mendocino State Hospital\">Image: Mendocino State Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My guess is that the plan was changed before it was built, but I really don&#8217;t know. If anyone has any information on this, please comment. Or if you&#8217;re a Kirkbride enthusiast living in California, maybe check out the collection of 217 photos from Mendocino <a href=\"http:\/\/content.cdlib.org\/view?docId=tf2c6001q2&amp;doc.view=entire_text\" title=\"Inventory of the Dept. of Mental Hygiene. Mendocino State Hospital Records\">mentioned here<\/a>. They might shed some light on this\u00a0mystery and are probably worth looking at anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through my &#8220;archives&#8221;, I came across this image. It&#8217;s an architect&#8217;s drawing for the planned Mendocino State Asylum for the Insane. I&#8217;m not sure if this exact building was ever constructed though. There was a Mendocino State Hospital\u2014it was built in Talmage, California and opened in 1893. Its main building was demolished in 1952. [&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":[1,13],"tags":[98,99,100],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-pictures","tag-california","tag-mendocino","tag-mendocino-state-hospital"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}