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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1731/00/00 Richard Brown builds a brick house (still extant as of 25 March 1976)
1844/00/00 Nicholas Brown Jr Benefactor Nicholas Brown bequeaths $30,000 for a new accommodation where persons "deprived of their reason may find a safe retreat ... conducive to their comfort and to their restoration to a sound state of mind."
1844/01/00 Thomas R Hazard Incorporator Twenty three benefactors incorporate the Rhode Island Hospital for the Insane.
1847/00/00 Robert Hale Ives Sr Treasurer of Butler Hospital Center House is built to the plans and architectural style suggested to the Board of Trustees by Dr Luther V Bell, built by Tailman and Bucklin.
1847/00/00 Dr Luther V Bell Architect Center House is built to the plans and architectural style suggested to the Board of Trustees by Dr Luther V Bell, built by Tailman and Bucklin.
1847/00/00 James C Bucklin Architect Center House is built to the plans and architectural style suggested to the Board of Trustees by Dr Luther V Bell, built by Tailman and Bucklin.
1859/00/00 Horace W S Cleveland Landscape Architect Horace W S Cleveland is employed as landscape gardener for the Butler grounds
1875/00/00 Stone, Carpenter and Willson Architect David Duncan Ward building built, 1873-1875
1882/00/00 Stone, Carpenter and Willson Architect Kane Gymnasium built
1885/00/00 William Stewart Halsted Health Dr William Halsted enters the Butler Sanatorium for treatment for cocaine addiction
1888/00/00 Stone, Carpenter and Willson Architect Sawyer House built, 1886-1888
1893/04/23 Winfield Scott Lovecraft Health Winfield Lovecraft is admitted to Butler Hospital in Providence, diagnosed with general paresis - the tertiary stage of neurosyphilis.
1898/07/21 Winfield Scott Lovecraft Died Winfield Scott Lovecraft dies of acute paresis of the insane at Butler Hospital.
1901/07/00 Charles Franklin Sprague Health Charles F Sprague is arrives at the Butler Sanitarium in Providence from a Massachusetts institution, the character of his illness, which will rapidly became chronic and progressive, leaves little or no hope for recovery.
1902/01/30 Charles Franklin Sprague Died Charles Franklin Sprague dies in the Butler Sanitarium in Providence, Rhode Island.
1906/00/00 Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architect Olmsted Brothers are commissioned to work on the Butler grounds
1910/11/14 John LaFarge Died After suffering a nervous breakdown, John La Farge passes away at Butler Hospital, Providence
1919/03/13 Sarah Susan Lovecraft Health After suffering from depression and hysteria for several years, Sarah Lovecraft is admitted to Butler Hospital in Providence.
1921/05/24 Sarah Susan Lovecraft Died Sarah Susan Lovecraft dies from complications of gall bladder surgery at Butler Hospital.

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Particulars for Butler Hospital:
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Gothic Revival
Area of Significance Health-medicine
Criteria Historic Event
Historic Use Hospital
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Architectural Style Late Gothic Revival
Disease Mental Illness
Area of Significance Mental Institution, Asylum
Level of Significance National
Owner Private
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 8th October 1976

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Butler Hospital
Registry Address: 333 Grotto Ave.
Registry Number: 76000041
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: Multiple
Architectural Style: Colonial revival, Late gothic revival, Gothic revival
Area in Acres: 114
Contributing Buildings: 13
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Landscape architecture, Health-medicine, Architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1875-1899, 1700-1749, 1850-1874, 1825-1849
Historic Function: Health care
Historic Sub-Function: Hospital
Current Function: Health care
Current Sub-Function: Hospital

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