Agnews Insane Asylum

  • Also Known As: Agnews Developmental Center
  • Also Known As: Agnews State Hospital

  • Address: 4000 Lafayette Ave
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Wesley Kern Daniels Architect
Leonard B Willeke Architect
Dr Leonard Stocking Architect
George B McDougall Architect
1906/00/00
1906/04/18 An earthquake severely damages most of The Great Asylum for the Insane, causing the death of 106 patients and 11 staff. "a number of insane persons having escaped from the demolished asylum, are running at random about the country." Daily Palo Alto Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1908/00/00 Sellon and Hemmings Architects Building 4 is built as "Building No 10 - Receiving Building for Women". Later renamed to "Wards A, B, C and D", and then "Female Wards".

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Particulars for Agnews Insane Asylum:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Exemplar
Area of Significance Health-medicine
Sight Category Historic District
Historic Use Hospital
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Disease Mental Illness
Other Description Mission-Spanish Revival
Criteria Person
Historic Use Sanatorium
Area of Significance Social History
Owner State



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 11th September 1998

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Agnews Insane Asylum (Boundary Increase)
Registry Address: 4000 Lafayette St.
Registry Number: 98001229
Resource Type: District
Owner: State
Architect: California State Architect
Architectural Style: Mission-spanish revival
Contributing Buildings: 6
Non-Contributing Buildings: 37
Contributing Sites: 1
Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Health-medicine, Social history, Architecture, Landscape architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Person, Architecture-Engineering
Associated People: Stocking, Leonard, et al.
Historic Function: Health care
Historic Sub-Function: Hospital, Sanatorium
Current Function: Health care
Current Sub-Function:

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