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Richard Brown builds a brick house (still extant as of 25 March 1976) |
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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." |
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1844/01/00 |
Thomas R Hazard |
Incorporator |
Twenty three benefactors incorporate the Rhode Island Hospital for the Insane. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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1859/00/00 |
Horace W S Cleveland |
Landscape Architect |
Horace W S Cleveland is employed as landscape gardener for the Butler grounds |
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1875/00/00 |
Stone, Carpenter and Willson |
Architect |
David Duncan Ward building built, 1873-1875 |
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1882/00/00 |
Stone, Carpenter and Willson |
Architect |
Kane Gymnasium built |
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1885/00/00 |
William Stewart Halsted |
Health |
Dr William Halsted enters the Butler Sanatorium for treatment for cocaine addiction |
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1888/00/00 |
Stone, Carpenter and Willson |
Architect |
Sawyer House built, 1886-1888 |
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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. |
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1898/07/21 |
Winfield Scott Lovecraft |
Died |
Winfield Scott Lovecraft dies of acute paresis of the insane at Butler Hospital. |
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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. |
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1902/01/30 |
Charles Franklin Sprague |
Died |
Charles Franklin Sprague dies in the Butler Sanitarium in Providence, Rhode Island. |
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1906/00/00 |
Olmsted Brothers |
Landscape Architect |
Olmsted Brothers are commissioned to work on the Butler grounds |
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1910/11/14 |
John LaFarge |
Died |
After suffering a nervous breakdown, John La Farge passes away at Butler Hospital, Providence |
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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. |
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1921/05/24 |
Sarah Susan Lovecraft |
Died |
Sarah Susan Lovecraft dies from complications of gall bladder surgery at Butler Hospital. |
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