{"id":64,"date":"2008-04-11T00:18:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T04:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-04-14T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T12:52:21","slug":"kirkbride-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/kirkbride-u","title":{"rendered":"The Kirkbride U"},"content":{"rendered":"

A piece of the original Oregon State Hospital building that’ll be spared the wrecking ball is being called the “Kirkbride U”. It’s kind of a weird term, but sort of makes sense considering the building itself is a little unusual because of it’s “J” shape. Read about it here: Plan Spares Tower on Old Hospital Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m still not sure I’d classify OSH as a Kirkbride building considering it’s oddball floorplan, but it could be one if you use a loose definition of the term. It was built in the right time period and probably followed most of the other structural ideas. It even looks like a Kirkbride minus the segmented wings. And if calling it a Kirkbride helped preserve the place, who really cares? It’s unquestionably historic and should be saved. (I know the state is destroying a lot of it, but they’re saving the most interesting part architecturally speaking.)<\/p>\n

As I’m sure many of you know, Oregon State Hospital served as the main set for the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/em> film. There’s a pretty long Rolling Stone piece about Jack Nicholson’s experiences during shooting<\/a> which is worth a read. It rambles a bit, but does offer some reasonably compelling glimpses of life at the state hospital in the 1970s. To give credit where it’s due, I found that article through Preserve Historic Salem<\/a> which is a great resource for the full story on Oregon State Hospital, its history and its future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A piece of the original Oregon State Hospital building that’ll be spared the wrecking ball is being called the “Kirkbride U”. It’s kind of a weird term, but sort of makes sense considering the building itself is a little unusual because of it’s “J” shape. Read about it here: Plan Spares Tower on Old Hospital […]<\/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":[1,4,5,3,32],"tags":[149,150,151],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-films","category-news","category-preservation","category-web-sites","tag-kirkbride-u","tag-one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest","tag-oregon-state-hospital"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}