Interior of the State Hospital in Morganton, N.C. : the amusement hall at Christmas time
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Identifier: 160.9.e.35
The amusement hall at the State Hospital in Morganton, N.C. View is from the back of the room showing the stage and rows of chairs. The ceiling and walls are decorated with greenery and a banner hung over the stage reads "Merry Christmas." Title and date from handwritten note on verso.more...
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The amusement hall at the State Hospital in Morganton, N.C. View is from the back of the room showing the stage and rows of chairs. The ceiling and walls are decorated with greenery and a banner hung over the stage reads "Merry Christmas." Title and date from handwritten note on verso.
Date
1890
Call Number
160.9.e.35
Additional Resources
Collection(s)
Architecture
Health and Medicine

Subject(s)
State Hospital (Morganton, N.C.)
Psychiatric hospitals--North Carolina--Morganton
Finding Aid
Carr, Elias, Papers

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Location (spatial)
United States--North Carolina--Burke County (N.C.)--Morganton (N.C.)
Type
still image
Medium
photographs
Physical Description
261mm x 208mm
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 Tue Oct 28 12:19 PM  by W.F. Brown, III

This was known as "Asylum Hall" at the time. The space is now used as a class room for the hospital's Staff Development Department (the vaulted ceiling has been closed). This area was cited as being unsafe around 1900, and the "new" amusement hall was built to replace this area around 1905.
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