State of California, Folsom Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Folsom, CA (1907) demolished

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - health and welfare buildings; built works - social and civic buildings - correctional institutions - prisons

Designers: Beck, Thomas, Building Contractor (firm); Thomas Beck (building contractor)

Dates: constructed 1907

2 stories

click to open gallery Exterior view of the Folsom Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Represa, c. 1910; from Jim Brown, Folsom Prison, (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2008), p. 37
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Folsom, CA

Overview

This institution for the criminally insane in CA was begun in 1907, but was still unfinished by 1915. Apparently, some inmates were held here occasionally, but no criminally-insane person was ever lodged here.

Demolition

The Folsom Hospital for the Criminally Insane was torn down during the 1950s.

PCAD id: 20975

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