{"id":50,"date":"2008-03-17T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/saint-vincents-and-sheppard-pratt"},"modified":"2008-03-22T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T21:17:24","slug":"saint-vincents-and-sheppard-pratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/saint-vincents-and-sheppard-pratt","title":{"rendered":"Saint Vincents and Sheppard Pratt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe MARGINWIDTH=\"0\" MARGINHEIGHT=\"0\" SRC=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1600+Castle+Park+Dr,+st+louis+mo&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=49.176833,82.177734&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;s=AARTsJoPkvNB1SB6Nv3gXSsH5spOl6qpEQ&amp;ll=38.692611,-90.306888&amp;spn=0.002931,0.00456&amp;z=17&amp;output=embed\" FRAMEBORDER=\"0\" WIDTH=\"484\" SCROLLING=\"no\" HEIGHT=\"350\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been trying to add to the <a TITLE=\"Kirkbride Buildings\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/\">list of Kirkbride buildings<\/a> and remembered a couple asylums mentioned in <a TITLE=\"America's Care of the Mentally Ill\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0880485396?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kirkbrbuildi-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0880485396\">America&#8217;s Care of the Mentally Ill<\/a>. In the book, there&#8217;s a nice bird&#8217;s eye view of an asylum called Saint Vincent&#8217;s in Saint Louis, Missouri. After a little searching I was able to find the address and confirm that it was a Kirkbride. In the aerial photo above, you can see the building still stands. It&#8217;s been converted to a residential complex called Castle Park Apartments and will probably be around for a good long time. That was a nice surprise. It&#8217;s hard to believe there aren&#8217;t any other photos of this castle-like Kirkbride online. It&#8217;s pretty impressive, if a little over the top in style.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Another Kirkbride asylum Baxter and Hathcox mention in <a TITLE=\"America's Care of the Mentally Ill\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0880485396?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kirkbrbuildi-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0880485396\">their book<\/a> is The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. This one I&#8217;m not so sure of. It doesn&#8217;t have segmented wings, but that might be because there was no need for additional wards. I believe Baxter and Hathcox when they say the building followed the Kirkbride plan, but I&#8217;m not inclined to add it to the list. For the most part I don&#8217;t count buildings\u00a0without at least one pair of set back wing sections.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these institutions were private asylums, which is probably why you don&#8217;t hear so much about them (clever word play not intended). Saint Vincent&#8217;s was founded by a Catholic charity in 1858, although the Kirkbride building wasn&#8217;t begun until 1888.\u00a0It\u00a0shut down\u00a0some time in the 1980s. Sheppard Pratt was funded by endowments from wealthy merchants Moses Sheppard and Enoch Pratt. It opened in 1891 and is still a functioning psychiatric center.<\/p>\n<p>Since I mentioned it, check out <a TITLE=\"America's Care of the Mentally Ill\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0880485396?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kirkbrbuildi-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0880485396\">America&#8217;s Care of the Mentally Ill: A Photographic History<\/a> if you can. It&#8217;s full of old photos and drawings of asylums. You can preview it online by following this link: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4HasD7gKJY0C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=%22america%27s+care+of+the+mentally+ill%22&amp;sig=rolTHCLdV_lUfDsAnKGhJjJz2Ls\" TARGET=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s Care of the Mentally Ill: A Photographic History<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to add to the list of Kirkbride buildings and remembered a couple asylums mentioned in America&#8217;s Care of the Mentally Ill. In the book, there&#8217;s a nice bird&#8217;s eye view of an asylum called Saint Vincent&#8217;s in Saint Louis, Missouri. 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