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Brattleboro Retreat

  • Also Known As: Vermont Asylum for the Insane
  • Address: Linden St and Upper Dummerston Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Particulars for Brattleboro Retreat:
Historic Use Agricultural outbuildings
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Criteria Exemplar
Area of Significance Health-medicine
Historic Use Hospital
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 12th April 1984

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Brattleboro Retreat
Registry Address: Linden St. and Upper Dummerston Rd.
Registry Number: 84003478
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: Multiple
Architectural Style: Colonial revival
Area in Acres: 620
Contributing Buildings: 40
Non-Contributing Buildings: 13
Contributing Sites: 6
Contributing Structures: 1
Contributing Objects: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Health-medicine, Architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1925-1949
Historic Function: Health care, Agriculture, subsistence
Historic Sub-Function: Agricultural outbuildings, Hospital
Current Function: Education, Agriculture, subsistence, Health care
Current Sub-Function: Hospital Sanatorium School Clinic

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