{"id":752,"date":"2010-02-08T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2010-02-11T12:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:11:52","slug":"the-lost-kirkbrides-brooklyn-state-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/the-lost-kirkbrides-brooklyn-state-hospital","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Kirkbrides: Brooklyn State Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nKirkbride connoisseur Ian Ference<\/a> has put another notch in his found-a-kirkbride-building-no-one-knew-about belt. What’s especially exciting is that, just like the last lost Kirkbride he discovered<\/a>, this Kirkbride was located in New York City \u2014 in Brooklyn to be exact. Brooklyn State Hospital was created to serve the Kings County region of New York. I’m not 100% sure of this, but other names for the hospital include Flatbush Insane Asylum, Kings County Lunatic Asylum and Long Island State Hospital. It’s now known as Kingsboro Psychiatric Center<\/a>. It was originally a county hospital, but the state took it over in 1895.<\/p>\n

According to various reports, by the early 20th century the building had become very overcrowded and wasn’t fit to house patients. It was replaced by other buildings some time in the 1920s and\/or 1930s. When the Kirkbride was demolished exactly is a little unclear, but it’s likely that it was gone when the highrise Building 10 opened in 1935 as Ian suggested to me.<\/p>\n

I haven’t been able to find any good pictures of the Kirkbride yet other than the above aerial shot Mr Ference found on the New York City map site<\/a>. As I find out more, I’ll post about it here. And if anyone has any information to share about this find, please let us know. Thanks.<\/p>\n

Update: <\/em>Ian found evidence that the Kirkbride building was erected in 1852 but only had one pair of wing sections. Another pair was added circa 1861, and another pair circa 1869. [source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kirkbride connoisseur Ian Ference has put another notch in his found-a-kirkbride-building-no-one-knew-about belt. What’s especially exciting is that, just like the last lost Kirkbride he discovered, this Kirkbride was located in New York City \u2014 in Brooklyn to be exact. Brooklyn State Hospital was created to serve the Kings County region of New York. I’m not […]<\/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],"tags":[253,254],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brooklyn-state-hospital","tag-new-york"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","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=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}