Dixmont State Hospital
Dixmont State Hospital (originally the Department of the Insane in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh) was a hospital located northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1862, Dixmont was once a state-of-the-art institution known for its highly self-sufficient and park-like campus, but a decline in funding for state hospitals and changing philosophies in psychiatric care caused the hospital to be closed in 1984. After more than two decades of abandonment, it was finally demolished in 2006. The campus spanned a total of . Reed Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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hospital
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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National Register of Historic Places
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Dixmont State Hospital
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1862-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1862
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1984-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1984
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2006
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