Indiana Central State Hospital

Indiana Central State Hospital (demolition)

jhumbracht@gmail.com / October 8, 2015

Well I decided to revisit the grounds of the old Indiana Central State Hospital today, to find new shots…and maybe some ghosts. Unfortunately when I arrived I did not see the same sights as I did when I went in November of 2014. I was aware that the City of Indianapolis was currently building housing […]

Indiana Central State Hospital

jhumbracht@gmail.com / December 28, 2014

While the Indiana legislature had authorized the establishment of a “hospital for the insane” as early as 1827, the doors of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane (later re-named Central State Hospital) did not open until 1848. At that time, the hospital consisted of one brick building situated on a large parcel of land, numbering