Mental health facility blueprints and plans (engineering and maintenance scheduled item) [Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Facilities Management Division]
Mental health facility blueprints and plans (engineering and maintenance scheduled item), 1899-1965.
Call no.: HS7.29/236X
Scope and Content: Programs and institutions for the mentally ill and retarded of Massachusetts were among the responsibilities successively of the Board of State Charities (St 1863, c 240), the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (St 1879, c 291), and the State Board of Lunacy and Charity (St 1886, c 101). They were then the sole responsibility successively of the State Board of Insanity (St 1898, c 433), the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases (St 1916, c 285), and the Dept. of Mental Diseases (St 1919, c 350, ss 79-81), renamed the Dept. of Mental Health (St 1938, c 486)
Arrangement: Arranged by facility
Restrictions: Restricted as fragile. Access by permission of state archivist or curator of Massachusetts Archives only
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Dept. of Mental Health, 1988. Belchertown plans (1954-1965 only) transferred from Massachusetts Historical Commission, 2008
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