National Register of Historic Places

Central Building, State Lunatic Asylum

Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia
Listed
July 19, 1978
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
78000960

About this property

Georgia's state mental asylum located in Milledgeville, Georgia, now known as the Central State Hospital (CSH), has been the state's largest facility for treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities. In continuous operation since accepting its first patient in December 1842, the hospital was founded as the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum, and was also known as the Georgia State Sanitarium and Milledgeville State Hospital during its long history. By the 1960s the facility had grown into the largest mental hospital in the world (contending with Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in New York). Its landmark Powell Building and the vast, abandoned 1929 Jones Building stand among some 200 buildings on two thousand acres that once housed nearly 12,000 patients. The CSH complex currently encompasses about 1,750 acres (710 ha), a pecan grove and historic cemeteries, and serves about 200 mental health patients. As of 2016 the facility offers short-stay acute treatment for people with mental illness, residential units and habilitation programs for people with developmental disabilities, recovery programs that require a longer stay, and specialized skilled and ICF nursing centers. Some programs serve primarily the central-Georgia region while other programs serve counties throughout the state.

Location

Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia
33.05056, -83.22190

Categories

HEALTH/MEDICINEARCHITECTURESOCIAL HISTORY
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Sources

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When was Central Building, State Lunatic Asylum listed on the National Register?

Central Building, State Lunatic Asylum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1978.

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Central Building, State Lunatic Asylum is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Central Building, State Lunatic Asylum is recorded as the industrial era.

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