Hamilton Insane Asylum

Hamilton Insane Asylum was a psychiatric hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. The asylum was opened in 1876 and moved some patients from the Toronto Asylum.^[1]

Admin building at obsolete Hamilton Asylum for the Insane

Orchard House, 1889

Structures

Century Manor is a historic structure built in 1884 and the only remaining element of the asylum. The Victoria Gothic building on 500 acres property that remained in use until the 1980s.^[1] The other buildings were Orchard House and the Barton Building^[2]

Originally called East House, it served various roles:^[3]

• Home to treatment program for alcoholics
• Forensic psychiatry program
• School and treatment program for adolescents^[4]

It was briefly a museum, but it closed in 1995 and has since become vacant.^[5] All the other buildings relating to the asylum have been demolished and remains under provincial ownership.^[1]

See also

• Margaret and Charles Juravinski Centre