{"id":44,"date":"2008-03-05T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/western-hospital-for-the-insane"},"modified":"2008-03-05T00:26:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T05:26:17","slug":"western-hospital-for-the-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/western-hospital-for-the-insane","title":{"rendered":"Western Hospital for the Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bolivar Credit goes to squad546<\/a> on the Asylum Projects forum<\/a>\u00a0for this revelation: it looks like there may have been a Kirkbride building in Bolivar, Tennessee. As it stands today, the building has no wings, but there are\u00a0clues it used to have some. An older topographic map<\/a> shows\u00a0what appears to be that old, familiar\u00a0outline. Also, the structure\u00a0was completed\u00a0in 1889, putting it within the tail end of the\u00a0Kirkbride era. And lastly, these\u00a0photos<\/a>\u00a0show there was definitely something\u00a0torn down on\u00a0either side of the old administration building. Check out these images in particular where you can make out traces of what was torn down:<\/p>\n

Image One<\/a>
\nImage Two<\/a>
\nImage Three<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m still not completely sure this was a Kirkbride, but I\u00a0wouldn’t post about it if I didn’t think there’s a really good chance it was. Finding out about\u00a0a Kirkbride\u00a0not mentioned in the usual sources is always a nice surprise. It gives you hope that there are more out there.\u00a0Conservatively, I’d\u00a0estimate the total count of Kirkbride\u00a0asylums ever built at somewhere\u00a0around fifty. But the real count could be more like seventy. Finds like this make me\u00a0think the larger\u00a0number\u00a0is more likely. I’ll write more about those estimates in a future post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Credit goes to squad546 on the Asylum Projects forum\u00a0for this revelation: it looks like there may have been a Kirkbride building in Bolivar, Tennessee. As it stands today, the building has no wings, but there are\u00a0clues it used to have some. An older topographic map shows\u00a0what appears to be that old, familiar\u00a0outline. Also, the structure\u00a0was […]<\/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":[119,120,121],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-pictures","tag-bolivar","tag-tennessee","tag-western-hospital-for-the-insane"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}