The story
America's first federal psychiatric hospital where Civil War patients named it after a saint rather than use its official title: Government Hospital for the Insane.
Everything that was here
- 1855–present · still open
St. Elizabeths HospitalMental Hospital
America's first federal psychiatric hospital where Civil War patients named it after a saint rather than use its official title: Government Hospital for the Insane.
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