{{Short description|Psychiatric hospital in Columbus. Ohio}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Columbus State Hospital | org_group = <!-- optional --> | image = Columbus State Hospital c. 1880.jpg | image_size = 270 | caption = 20th century aerial view of the hospital | logo = <!-- optional --> | region = 1960 West Broad St., Columbus | state = Ohio | country = US | coordinates = {{Coord|39|57|30|N|83|3|20|W|display=inline,title}} | funding = Public | type = Specialist | speciality = Psychiatric hospital | standards = <!-- optional if no national standards --> | beds = 850 (1877){{r|kb}} | founded = 1838 | closed = late 1980s | website = | mapframe = yes | module = {{Infobox NRHP | embed = yes | name = Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | coordinates = | district_map = | area = | built = | architect = | architecture = | added = April 24, 1986 | governing_body = | refnum = 86000851 }} }}
'''Columbus State Hospital''', also known as the '''Ohio State Hospital for the Insane''', was a public psychiatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1838 and rebuilt in 1877.<ref name=kb>{{cite web|url=http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/columbus/|work=Kirkbride Buildings|title=Columbus State Hospital|access-date=May 9, 2017}}</ref> The hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://library.osu.edu/blogs/mhcb/2011/09/26/ohio-state-hospital/|work=Ohio State University Library|title=Columbus State Hospital|date=September 26, 2011|access-date=May 9, 2017}}</ref>
The building was said to have been the largest in the U.S. or the world, until the Pentagon was completed in 1943.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.wosu.org/news/2020-01-10/curious-cbus-whats-the-history-of-the-columbus-insane-cemetery|title = Curious Cbus: What's the History of the Columbus Insane Cemetery?|date = 10 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 11, 1985 |title=Group tries saving old hospital wing |url=https://login.webproxy3.columbuslibrary.org/login?qurl=https://infoweb.newsbank.com%2fapps%2fnews%2fdocument-view%3fp%3dWORLDNEWS%26t%3dpubname%3a1467499E363272B3%21Columbus%2bDispatch%26sort%3dYMD_date%3aD%26fld-base-0%3dalltext%26maxresults%3d20%26val-base-0%3d%2522deaf%2520school%2522%26docref%3dimage%2fv2%3a1467499E363272B3%40EANX-NB-16467C7FA1386B31%402446411-16467A272EC934E3%40219-16467A272EC934E3%40 |access-date=2022-08-29 |website=The Columbus Dispatch}}</ref>
==History== The Lunatic Asylum of Ohio was initially organized by an act of the General Assembly passed on March 5, 1835.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalanna03tayl/page/862/mode/2up |title=The Biographical Annals of Ohio 1906-1907-1908 |date=1902 |pages=863–866 |publisher=Springfield, O., etc. |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> The original hospital building, after three years of construction, was completed in 1838 at a cost of about $61,000.<ref name=kb/><ref name=":0" /> Dr. William M. Awl was elected as the first Medical Superintendent of the asylum.<ref name=":0" />
In November 1868, a fire destroyed the asylum, killing six patients and displacing over 300 others.<ref name=":0" /> The hospital was rebuilt in the Kirkbride style in 1877.<ref name="kb" /> The hospital was closed in the late 1980s, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in an attempt to save the building in 1986. The structure was nevertheless demolished between 1991 and 1996<ref name="kb" /> by S.G. Loewendick & Sons.<ref name="Foster">{{cite news|last=Foster|first=Emily|title=From the Archives: Columbus' First Family of Destruction|work=Columbus Monthly|url=https://www.columbusmonthly.com/news/20190304/from-archives-columbus-first-family-of-destruction|date=Mar 4, 2019|orig-year=First published November 1988|access-date=May 7, 2020}}</ref>
<gallery mode="packed"> File:Insane Asylum, Columbus, O (b).tif|Main structure, c. 1900-1906 File:Columbus State Hospital.jpg|1910 property map File:Columbus State Hospital cemetery 03.jpg|One of three cemeteries used by the asylum </gallery>
==See also== * National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbus, Ohio
==References== {{Reflist}}
===Further reading=== *{{cite book|last=Yanni|first=Carla|title=The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States |publisher=Minnesota University Press| year=2007| isbn=978-0-8166-4940-2 }}
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