Building Committee Records
Scope and Contents
The Building Committee planned and supervised the construction of Friends Asylum. This is volume of minutes with information about the decisions the Committee came to concerning issues like paint color, windows, door locks, etc. They put a lot of thought into their architectural decisions because, according to the tenets of moral treatment, architecture influenced patients’ recovery. The volume also contains a blueprint of the hospital site and a record of donations of furniture.
(Information from “A Mild and Appropriate System of Treatment”: Moral Treatment and the Curability of Mental Illness at Friends Asylum" by Abigail Corcoran)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
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