When Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital accepted its first patients in April 1874, they opened the doors to both male and female patients though the original plan was to treat only males.
The original administration building experienced an attic fire in 1921 and though the patients were safely removed and records preserved, the building was basically destroyed. One portion of the original wings was salvaged, shown here, but the porches and ornamental architecture was removed.
Photo: "Sail Away"
Stalacites form on the ceiling of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital dormitory building.
Photo: "The Fallout"
Inside the dormitory building at the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital in New York. This building contained dorm rooms, offices, day rooms and a seclusion wing.
Photo: "Reconstructed"
The old dormitory building at Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital had day rooms and a seclusion wing.
Photo: "An Inner Turmoil"
The Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital opened for patients in April, 1874. This building was used as a dormitory building and contained day rooms and a seclusion wing.
Photo: "Mars"
A day room inside one of the dorm buildings at Middletown Homeopathic State Hospital in NY. This building contained a seclusion wing and day rooms, such as this one, on each of the three floors.
Photo: "Afterlife"
Light painted coffin in the basement of the crumbling Middletown Psychiatric Hospital, formerly known as the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital.
Photo: "Cornerstone"
The Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital was founded in New York, in 1870 as a state asylum for "the care and treatment of the insane and the inebriate upon the principles of medicine known as homeopathic." It was the first hospital of its kind in the United States when it opened in 1874 and during the first year, sixty nine patients were treated at this facility.