Columbus State Hospital, also known as Ohio State Hospital for Insane, was a public psychiatric hospital in

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, founded in 1838 and rebuilt in 1877. The hospital was constructed under the

Kirkbride Plan The Kirkbride Plan was a system of mental asylum design advocated by American psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883) in the mid-19th century. The asylums built in the Kirkbride design, often referred to as Kirkbride Buildings (or simp ...

. The building was said to have been the largest in the U.S. or the world, until

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was completed in 1943.

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The original hospital building, known as the Lunatic Asylum of Ohio, was completed in 1838. In 1868, a fire destroyed the asylum, and it was rebuilt in the Kirkbride style in 1877. The hospital was closed in the late 1980s, and was listed on the

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in an attempt to save the building in 1986. The structure was nevertheless demolished between 1991 and 1996 by S.G. Loewendick & Sons. File:Insane Asylum, Columbus, O (b).tif, Main structure, c. 1900-1906 File:Columbus State Hospital.jpg, 1910 property map File:Columbus State Hospital cemetery 03.jpg, One of three cemeteries used by the asylum

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