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Title
The
Hospital
,
circa
1859
Personal name
Eichbaum
,
William
A.
,
1787-1873--Notebooks
,
sketchbooks
, etc.
Corporate name
City Hospital (Nashville, Tenn.)
Topical entry
Architecture
Buildings
Medicine
Business
Capital City
Downtown Nashville
Public Health
Hospitals--Tennessee--Nashville
Urban hospitals--Tennessee--Nashville
Health facilities--Tennessee--Nashville
Mental health facilities--Tennessee--Nashville
Hospital buildings--Tennessee--Nashville
Architecture--Tennessee--Nashville
Buildings--Tennessee--Nashville
Central business districts--Tennessee--Nashville
Drawing--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry
Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources
Twelfth Avenue (Nashville, Tenn.)
Division Street (Nashville, Tenn.)
Overton Street (Nashville, Tenn.)
Nashville (Tenn.)--Social conditions
Nashville (Tenn.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Description
A
page
from a
mounted
and
bound
volume
of
twenty-five
pen-and-ink
wash
drawings
, and
two
pen-and-ink
maps
of
Nashville
created
by
William
A.
Eichbaum
during
the
1850s
.
Eichbaum
was a
Nashville
bookseller
and
resident
for
fifty
years
. This
drawing
is
of
Nashville's
City
Hospital
,
originally
built
as a
mental
hospital
in the
early
1830s
.
Known
first
as
Tennessee's
Lunatic
Asylum
, the
three-story
building
designed
by
David
Morrison
stood
on what
is
now
Twelfth
Avenue
,
South
,
bounded
on the
south
by
Division
Street
and
extending
back
to
Overton
Street
. In
1847
,
nationally
known
mental-health
reformer
Dorothea
Dix
visited
Tennessee
for
several
weeks
and
pointed
out
the
need
for a
better
mental
care
facility
. In
1848
state
legislators
appropriated
money
for a
new
mental
hospital
. In
1852
,
when
the
new
facility
on
Murfreesboro
Turnpike
was
complete
,
patients
were
transferred
, and the
old
building
was
transformed
into
City
Hospital
. The
University
of
Nashville's
medical
school
operated
it
and the
city
helped
with
funding
, but the
building
remained
state-owned
. There
is
no
record
of the
structure
being
used
as a
hospital
by
either
army
during
the
Civil
War
, and
later
proposals
to
transform
it
into the
governor's
mansion
never
came
to
fruition
.
Forms
part
of the
William
A.
Eichbaum
Sketchbook
Collection
.
1
drawing
:
col
. ;
5.75
x
9
in.
Creator
Eichbaum
,
William
A.
,
1787-1873
Publisher
Special
Collections
Division
of the
Nashville
Public
Library
,
615
Church
Street
,
Nashville
,
Tennessee
,
37219
Date
ca.
1859
Type
Still
Image
;
Drawings
;
Sketchbooks
Format
image/jpeg
Identifier
Eich - 08 - hospital
Language
English
Relation
William
A.
Eichbaum
Sketchbook
Coverage
1850-1859
Rights
U.S
. and
international
copyright
laws
protect
this
digital
content
,
which
is
provided
for
educational
purposes
only
and
may
not be
downloaded
,
reproduced
, or
distributed
for any
other
purpose
without
written
permission
.
Please
contact
the
Special
Collections
Division
of the
Nashville
Public
Library
,
615
Church
Street
,
Nashville
,
Tennessee
,
37219
.
Telephone
(615)
862-5782
.
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