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| Keywords: Bryce Hospital, opened in 1861 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is Alabama's oldest and largest inpatient psychiatric facility LCCN2010637707.tif 1 photograph digital TIFF file color Notes Title date subject note and keywords provided by the photographer ; Gift; George F Landegger; 2010; DLC/PP-2010 090 ; Forms part of George F Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; First known as the Alabama State Hospital for the Insane and later as the Alabama Insane Hospital the building is considered an architectural model The facility was planned from the start to utilize the moral architecture concepts of 1830s activists Thomas Story Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix Dix's reformist ideas in particular are credited as the driving force behind the construction of the hospital Architect Samuel Sloan designed the Italianate building using the Kirkbride Plan Construction of the building began in 1853 but was not completed until 1859 The hospital was the first building in Tuscaloosa with gas lighting and central heat ; Credit line The George F Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2010 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2010637707 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/05800/05871a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 05871 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 05871 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ George F Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive The George F Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||