View of the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury, Vermont

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Built as the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane in 1890, the facility grew steadily until the 1960s, when attitudes toward, and advances in the treatment of, mental illness brought about a rapid decrease in the patient population. Subsequently, the facility was turned into offices for employees of several Vermont state agencies.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.