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State Hospital Gatehouse:
1006 Oakland Drive
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Gatehouse at the Michigan Asylum for the
Insane, 1892 |
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Kalamazoo Public Library Photo
P-446 |
The following material is from the
1973 Initial Inventory of Historic Sites and Buildings in
Kalamazoo and was made available for use here by the
Historic Preservation Coordinator of the City of Kalamazoo. See
Introduction
to an Initial Inventory... for details about how the survey
was conducted.
1006 Oakland Drive R-48
Gatehouse, State Hospital
| Location: |
1006 Oakland Drive |
| Designation: |
Gatehouse, State Hospital |
| Date: |
1877 |
| Style: |
Gothic Revival |
Originally intended as a gatehouse at the entrance
drive to the State Hospital grounds. The gate was never constructed,
though the drive passed beside the building for several years. In
style, the gatehouse belongs to that category popularly called
"Carpenter Gothic." The board-and-batten siding, steep roofs, and
"gingerbread" ornament were popular around the country at mid
[nineteenth] century. At present the building is maintained by the State
Hospital and serves in part as a museum.
This
report was converted from a typewritten document to a digital text
document in September 2004. Other than punctuation and spelling
corrections, and the addition of BOLD type site address
and names, no changes were made. Minor formatting changes were
made for use on this website, but the text was not altered.
Original survey dated 1973.
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For further information, we suggest
these sources:
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H 720.9774
S355 |
Schmitt, Peter J.
Kalamazoo: Nineteenth Century Homes in a Midwestern Village.
Kalamazoo City Historical Commission, 1976, pages 88-95,
includes several interior photographs. |
Page launched 16 October 2007.
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