Overview

This early private psychiatric hospital in Stockton, CA, was in operation by 1887.

Building History

Dr. Asa Clark supervised the operation of the Pacific Hospital in Stockton, CA, in 1887. An advertisement in Langley's San Francisco City Directory for the Year Commencing May 1887, (p. 30) said of the hospital's capabilities: "Private hospital for the care and treatment of mental and nervous diseases. The proprietary institution known as the Pacific Hospital is especially devoted to the care and treatment of mental and nervous diseases. The buildings are capacious and comfortable, having been constructed for the accommodation of over 200 patients, and they are pleasantly situated in the suburbs of Stockton, and surrounded by attractive grounds of forty acres in extent, with cultivated gardens and pleasant walks. Its advantages over public institutions in facility of admission and procuring extra accommodation, if required, are obvious." The advertisement listed the names of nine prominent physicians from San Francisco, Oakland, Napa and Stockton recommending its care.

As per the lithographic image in the 1887 advertisement, the hospital complex contained at least three large buildings and several smaller auxiliary buildings within a partially-fenced perimeter. A central, two-floor house looks to have been built first, with two later wings surrounding it.

PCAD id: 24480