The old asylum at Mount Pleasant

Iowa · United States · Hospital

Built in the middle of the 1800s as a mental hospital and converted to a prison in the 1980s. A stone centre block with newer brick wings east and west.

The institution at Mount Pleasant, Iowa was built in the middle of the 1800s as a mental hospital. It consists of an old stone centre building with newer brick wings running east and west. In the 1980s it was converted into a prison.

The account comes from a former member of staff who worked the eleven at night to seven in the morning shift, on the top floor of the middle ward in the east wing, during the years before the conversion.

The geography matters to what they describe. There were offices and group rooms in the ward to the west of theirs. The ward to the east was empty.

What they report began when they first started working that unit.

A night worker on a top floor between an occupied ward and an empty one is in about the most isolated position an institution of that size can produce. The building is now a correctional facility and is closed. What is recorded here belongs to the hospital that ran in it for a hundred and thirty years.

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The old asylum at Mount Pleasant is in Iowa, United States.

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