The Kirkbride Plan was precise, down to minute detail, and recorded in his 1854 book, "On the Construction, Organization and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane." Among its guidelines: ...

Still, awakened by Dix's moral fervor, states from California to Connecticut erected 75 mental hospitals over the following decades, designed in the style of the Kirkbride Plan, which called for a ...

One fundamental aspect of the Kirkbride plan was the layout of the main building, which was designed in the shape of a “V,” like a bird in flight, with long wings that extended out on either side.

Opened in 1828; Kirkbride Plan building added in 1858. Most buildings abandoned in the 1990s; the oldest facility, the Mills Building is no longer used for patients but houses offices.

As treatment for mental illness progressed from the Kirkbride Plan to the Cottage Style layout of state hospitals, ... As the original hospital building designed by H.H. Richardson aged, ...

Similar "Kirkbride Plan" facilities were built throughout the United States at the time. ... [Kirkbride buildings] left in the United States and Canada out of over 75," he said, ...

PARSIPPANY-- It has been a year since the Main Building at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was demolished in late October 2015, resulting in the destruction of yet another Kirkbride Building.