Western State Hospital (Kentucky)


Western Lunatic Asylum
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Coordinates	36°51′54″N 87°27′4″W / 36.86500°N 87.45111°W / 36.86500; -87.45111Coordinates: 36°51′54″N 87°27′4″W / 36.86500°N 87.45111°W / 36.86500; -87.45111
Built	1854
MPS	Christian County MRA
NRHP Reference #	79003612^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 30, 1979

The Western State Hospital, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky which was established in 1854 as the Western Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, is an inpatient center for the treatment of mental illness. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. It had a patient population as high as 2,200 by 1950. Improved medications for treatment of mental disorders allowed de-institutionalization and a decrease in inpatient numbers. The inpatient population as of 2004 was 220, from 34 counties in Western Kentucky. Its three facilities employed 650 workers in 2004.^[2]

References

↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Bigham, Karen, "Western State Hospital," Kentucky New Era, April 5, 2004. Retrieved May 23, 2012

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