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Trust for Historical Preservations list
on America’s eleven Most Endangered
Places in 2009. Crystal’s plan while
touring was to photograph the
buildings in order to create a historical
record of the campus.
Built in 1879 the Dakota Hospital
for the Insane was the first “insane
asylum” in the Dakotas. Prior to
this, patients were sent to hospitals
in Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska
for treatment. Due to overcrowding
however, these states needed to return
patients to the Dakotas.
Governor Howard searched for a building to be used for a hospital
in nearby towns of Vermillion, Elk Point, and Canton with no success.
In Yankton, he found two large wooden buildings. One belonged to
the city and the other to the Territory;
both built to house German-Russian
immigrants. The Governor secured
the buildings and arranged to have
them rebuilt on school lands north of
Yankton at the personal expense of
$2,286.85.
As the patient population grew
so did the number of staff and need
for more buildings. The architectural
style of each of the buildings were
unique and included neo-classical,
art deco, and Italianate. Patients and
contracted labor quarried the stone
for the buildings and made the terrazzo for many of the floors. They
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