North Carolina Hospital for the Insane
Contributors:
Eleazar Colbourn, stone contractor;
Conrad Family, contractors;
Conrad and Williams, carpentry contractors;
Dabney Cosby, brickwork contractor;
Alexander Jackson Davis, architect;
Stewart Ellison, carpenter;
David McKnight, brick contractor;
S. L. McKnight, plastering contractor
Variant Name(s):
Dorothea Dix Hospital
Dates:
1850-1852
Location:
Raleigh, Wake County
Street Address:
Dorothea Dix Hospital Campus, Western Boulevard, Raleigh, NC
Status:
Altered
Type:
Health Care
Images Published In:
Catherine W. Bishir, North Carolina Architecture (1990).
Edward T. Davis and John L. Sanders, A Romantic Architect in Antebellum North Carolina: The Works of Alexander Jackson Davis (2000).
