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29. Allentown State Hospital Insane Asylum PostcardUnavailable • Pre-owned - Excellent
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“Allentown State Hospital opened on October 3, 1912 as the Pennsylvania State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane. It was built on an approximately 200-acre parcel on a hill on the north bank of the Lehigh River for a total cost of $1,931,270. With an influx of patients from nearby state hospitals, its capacity was quickly reached and almost immediately after it was built there were calls for expansion, including "a reception building for new admissions, a home for nurses, two buildings for tubercular patients, isolation cottage for contagious diseases, changes in the buildings for hydrotherapy and continuous bath equipment, dairy, barn, piggery, farm building repairs, and coal tramway from railroad to power house" according to AsylumProjects.org. Several other additional facilities were added to the campus over the next two decades including staff housing and additional wards; ultimately the campus would consist of almost 30 different buildings.”

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