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Photographic copy of 1st fl. plan 'B' Competition drawings ? Peddie & Kinnear ? c.1860
D 73038 P
Description Photographic copy of 1st fl. plan 'B' Competition drawings ? Peddie & Kinnear ? c.1860
Date c. 1860
Catalogue Number D 73038 P
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of IND 97/4
Copies SC 749422
Scope and Content Drawing showing proposed plan of first floor, Craig Dunain Hospital (Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum), Leachkin Road, Inverness, Highland Inverness District Asylum was opened in 1864 on a ridge overlooking the town. In 1947 its name was changed to Craig Dunain Hospital, known locally as 'the Craig'. This imposing, red sandstone, Victorian institution treated mentally ill patients from the whole Highland region before being closed down in July 2000. This shows the original plan for the first floor of this three-storeyed asylum. It was designed and built by James Matthews, an Aberdeen architect, who opened an office in Inverness. Women patients were housed in the east wing and men in the west wing, with central kitchen and dining facilities and a library between. The scale of this asylum was vast. One patient stated that a trip to visit a friend and fellow patient involved walking a mile without ever leaving the building. The hospital community was largely self-sufficient, with its own farm, market garden, butcher, shoemaker, church, recreation park and swimming pool. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Scale 1":20'
Medium Wash
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