{{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Terrell State Hospital | org_group = <!-- optional --> | image = Terrell State Hospital c. 1890.jpg | caption = Terrell State Hospital, original building | logo = <!-- optional --> | region = Terrell | state = Texas | country = US | coordinates = <!-- optional; use template coord with 'display=inline,title' --> | healthcare = Texas Department of State Health Services | type = Specialist | speciality = Psychiatric hospital | standards = <!-- optional if no national standards --> | beds = | founded = {{start date and age|1885|07|14}}{{r|HoT_Hart_1995}} | closed = | website = {{URL|https://www.hhs.texas.gov/services/mental-health-substance-use/state-hospitals/terrell-state-hospital}} | former_names = {{ubl|North Texas Lunatic Asylum{{r|HoT_Hart_1995}}|North Texas Hospital for the Insane{{r|HoT_Hart_1995}}}} }}

'''Terrell State Hospital''' is a public psychiatric hospital located in Terrell, Texas, United States. Opened in 1885, it was originally known as the '''North Texas Lunatic Asylum'''.{{r|HoT_Hart_1995}} The original hospital building was built according to the Kirkbride Plan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/terrell/|work=Kirkbride Buildings|title=Terrell State Hospital|access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref>

==Notable people== *Oscar Branch Colquitt - 25th Governor of Texas, served on the board of managers.{{r|Lucko_2003|page=402}}

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="HoT_Hart_1995">{{cite web | url = https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/terrell-state-hospital | title = Terrell State Hospital | last1 = Hart | first1 = Brian | date = 1995-07-01 | orig-date = 1976 | website = Handbook of Texas Online | language = en-US | access-date = 2020-04-18 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220213174222/https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/terrell-state-hospital | archive-date = 2022-02-13 | df = dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="Lucko_2003">{{cite journal | last1 = Lucko | first1 = Paul M. | date = 2003-01-01 | title = The Governor and the Bat: Prison Reform during the Oscar B. Colquitt Administration, 1911-1915 | journal = The Southwestern Historical Quarterly | language = en-us | publisher = Texas State Historical Association | volume = 106 | issue = 3 | pages = 396–471 | doi = | issn = 0038-478X | jstor = 30239345 | lccn = | oclc = 1766223 | quote = Colquitt, who formerly served on the board of managers for the Terrell State Insane Asylum, did, however, express a great deal of empathy for prisoners and other wards of the state. | quote-page = 402 | df = dmy-all}}</ref>

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==Further reading== {{refbegin|2}} *{{cite book|last=Britton|first=Benny| oclc=464640093|title=Terrell State Hospital, 1883–2008|publisher=Volunteer Services Council of Terrell State Hospital|year=2008}} *{{cite thesis | last = Keller | first = Mabel Covington | date = August 1950 | title = History of Kaufman County, Texas | type = MSc | chapter = VI. Terrell | publisher = | docket = | oclc = | url = https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc663001/ | access-date = 2022-04-18 | pages = 122-123 | via = University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library |df = dmy-all}} *{{cite book|last=Yanni|first=Carla|title=The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States |publisher=University of Minnesota Press | edition = First | date=2007-04-12| isbn=978-0-8166-4940-2 | ol = OL8070992M | lccn = 2007003766 | df = dmy-all }} *{{cite news | date = 1975-07-02 | title = Who's Mental and Who's Dead? | work = The Rag | language = en | volume = 9 | issue = 31 | page = 8 | issn = 0033-8621 | jstor = community.28043358 | jstor-access = free | oclc = 1586244 | df = dmy-all}} {{refend}}

==External links== *{{official website|https://www.hhs.texas.gov/services/mental-health-substance-use/state-hospitals/terrell-state-hospital}}

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