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Title |
Annual Reports related to Greystone State Hospital |
Scope & Content |
Annual Report of the Commissioners to Select a Site and Build an Asylum for the Insane, of this State, Oct. 31st, 1878. New Jersey State Hospital Annual Reports 1879, 1885 Fifty-Eight Annual Report of the Managers and Offices of the New Jersey State Hospital at Greystone Park 1933 Sixty-First Annual Report of the Managers and Offices of the New Jersey State Hospital at Greystone Park 1936 New York State Journal of Medicine, 1935, belonged to Dr. Earl Fuller a doctor at Greystone These items belong to MCPC Archival Papers Collection Series 4: Sites and Park Property Collections. |
Object Name |
Report, Annual |
Catalog Number |
HS1988.026 |
Collection |
Morris County Park Commission |
Physical characteristics |
6 bound reports, 5 3/4" x 9 1/8" |
Creator |
New Jersey State Hospital |
Other Creators |
Commissioners to Select a Site and Build an Asylum for the Insane New York State Journal of Medicine |
Biographical History |
The first NJ state hospital for the insane opened on May 15, 1848, in Ewing Township near Trenton to accommodate 200 people. Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital (also known as Greystone Psychiatric Park, Greystone Psychiatric Hospital, or simply Greystone and formerly known as the State Asylum for the Insane at Morristown, New Jersey State Hospital, Morris Plains, and Morris Plains State Hospital referred to both the former psychiatric hospital and the historic building that it occupied in Morris Plains, New Jersey. Built in 1876, the facility was built to alleviate overcrowding at the state's only other "lunatic asylum" located in Trenton, New Jersey. Originally built to accommodate 350 people, the facility, having been expanded several times, reached a high of over 7700 patients resulting in unprecedented overcrowding conditions. In 2008, the facility was ordered to be closed as a result of deteriorating conditions and overcrowding. A new facility was built on the large Greystone campus nearby and bears the same name as the aging facility. Despite considerable public opposition and media attention, demolition of the main Kirkbride building began in April 2015 and was completed by October 2015. |
Year Range from |
1878 |
Year Range to |
1936 |
System of arrangement |
The MCPC Archival Collection is organized into series relating to the institutional history of the MCPC as a governmental institution. The arrangement of the collection reflects the natural groupings found within the Collection: Series 1: MCPC Oral Histories Series 2: Morris County General History Series 3: MCPC Image Collections Series 4: MCPC Sites and Park Property Collections Series 5: MCPC Institutional Collections |
Subjects |
Mental health Mental institutions Hospitals State government |
Parent ObjectID |
MC2023.001.0004 |
Copyrights |
Records may be copied for use in individual scholarly or personal research; however, as with all materials in the Morris County Park Commission, researchers are responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material from the collection. |
Level of description |
Folder |