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33-656: The Bloomingdale Insane Asylum (1821–1889) was an American private hospital for the care of the mentally ill, founded by New York Hospital . It was located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City , where Columbia University is now located. It relocated to White Plains, New York , as the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic , now known as the " NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center." The road leading to

66-535: A 1769 commencement address by Samuel Bard , a graduate of the University of Edinburgh Medical School and professor of medicine, which was delivered to the first two medical doctors to graduate from King's College, now Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons , titled “A discourse upon the duties of a physician, with some sentiments on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital.” New York City leaders later pledged one thousand pounds sterling to

99-602: A Board of Governors for the "reception of such patients as require medical treatment, chirurgical management and maniacs." The first regular meeting of the Governors after its organization was held on July 24, 1771, at Fraunces Tavern , the same location where General Washington would bid farewell to his officers on December 4, 1783. Attending the first meeting were then hospital president John Watts, Philip Livingston , and Gerardus William Beekman. The Governors purchased 5 acres (2.0 ha) in 1771, on elevated ground surrounded at

132-399: A barracks for Hessian and British Army soldiers , as a laboratory for teaching anatomy to medical students, and as a military hospital. Although initially ignored by the wider community, grave-robbing incidents in the 1780s were met with public outrage after medical students – who were taking the corpses in order to dissect them for anatomical study – turned from stealing from

165-682: A large gift to New York Hospital specifically for mental health. Whitney was an American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family . Today the campus is known as NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health after the 1998 merger of New York and Presbyterian Hospitals. The historical records of the Bloomingdale Asylum are housed in the Medical Center Archives of the Weill Cornell Medical Library. Columbia University occupied several buildings forming

198-500: A number of uses over the years, but is now known as Buell Hall and houses La Maison Française . The American artist Charles Deas was institutionalized at the asylum from 1848 until his death in 1867. In 1872, the New York journalist, Julius Chambers , conducted an undercover investigation of the institution by having himself committed with the help of his senior editor and some of his friends. After ten days, they had him released and

231-543: A profitable investment before the cotton gin and an even more profitable investment after its invention". In 1844, Asa Whitney launched a campaign for a railway linking the country's west to the east that ultimately resulted in the first transcontinental railroad . Upon taking office as U.S. Secretary of the Navy in 1885, William Collins Whitney oversaw the American fleet's widespread adoption of steel ships, an event essential to

264-482: A series of articles was published in the New York Tribune exposing abuses of inmates. This led to a dozen patients being released who were determined to be sane. The administration was reorganized and some administrators dismissed. Weill Cornell Medical Center The hospital was founded in 1771 with a charter from George III . It is the second-oldest hospital in New York City and third-oldest hospital in

297-470: A subscription for that purpose to which himself and most of the gentlemen present liberally contributed." Subscriptions to this fund were continued, and in 1770, Doctors Peter Middleton, John Jones and Samuel Bard presented to the Colonial Government a petition for the incorporation of a public hospital. The petition was granted by a charter bearing the date of June 13, 1771 incorporating the "Society of

330-565: Is a prominent American family descended from non-Norman English immigrant John Whitney (1592–1673), who left London in 1635 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts . The historic family mansion in Watertown, known as The Elms, was built for the Whitneys in 1710. The Whitneys today continue to be involved in philanthropic efforts due to the wealth accumulated by past generations. They are also members of

363-583: Is certified as a Level II Trauma Center and houses the only pediatric burn unit in the New York City Metropolitan Area . Komansky Children's Hospital is a full-service pediatric hospital within a hospital and has been routinely listed by U.S. News & World Report ' s as one of the nation's best children's hospitals. It is one of only ten children's hospitals in the nation to be ranked by U.S. News & World Report in all ten clinical specialties. Whitney family The Whitney family

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396-572: Is described as being a small village on the island, in Spafford's Gazetteer, of 1813. The Bloomingdale Asylum was proposed in an address by Dr. Peter Middleton at King's College (today Columbia College ), on November 3, 1769: "The necessity and usefulness of a public Infirmary has been so warmly and pathetically set forth in a discourse delivered by Dr. Samuel Bard, at the college commencement, in May last, that his Excellency, Sir Henry Moore immediately set on foot

429-408: The "Negroes Burying Ground" to the more closely-located, and white, Trinity Churchyard . This provoked a raid on the university, an attack on the student perpetrators, and the "doctors' riot" of 1788 . The hospital opened on January 3, 1791. Initially it was a small, two-story H-shaped building located along the west side of Broadway between present day Worth and Duane streets, set back from

462-570: The Cornell University Medical College . In 1932, the hospital moved to a new location as a joint facility, the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center , now Weill Cornell Medical Center, on York Avenue between East 67th and 68th Streets. In 1998, New York Hospital merged administratively with Presbyterian Hospital to become NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital (NYP). Despite the clinical alliance,

495-571: The Episcopal Church . Until the mid-20th century, successive generations of the Whitney family had a significant impact on American history. Eli Whitney 's invention of the cotton gin in 1793 enabled cotton seeds to be removed 50 times faster, a breakthrough which led the country to become home to 75% of the world's cotton supply. This caused the demand for slaves to increase rapidly, with Yale law professor Paul Finkleman writing that "slaves were

528-497: The Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic , now known as "New York-Presbyterian/Westchester". The Morningside Heights site became part of Columbia University . New York Hospital outgrew its original building by the 1870s and moved to a new building between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and West 15th and 16th Streets, which opened in 1877. The original facility was maintained as a 'house of relief', which moved to Hudson Street in 1884. In 1912, New York Hospital became affiliated with

561-420: The mentally ill , the hospital's board of governors decided to construct an additional building designed to specialize in treatment of the mentally ill. After receiving financial assistance from the New York state legislator, the governors erected "a substantial and spacious stone edifice on the grounds of the hospital in the city, within the same enclosure, and but a few rods distant from the original building. It

594-658: The 1880s, with the city expanding northward, the trustees of the New York Hospital began to sell parts of the Asylum's land to various institutions, including the Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum on the campus of what is now the Cathedral of St. John the Divine . The trustees of Columbia College, now Columbia University, bought the bulk of the Bloomingdale Asylum property in 1892 and began planning

627-473: The Bloomingdale Asylum became the exclusive preserve of those whose families could afford to pay for their care. Plans to expand the asylum began in 1826. Two new buildings had been added by 1829, and the campus would continue to expand for many decades. The grounds of the asylum were elegantly laid out with walks and gardens. Farming and gardening were considered therapeutic, so there was a working farm with orchards, vegetable gardens, barns and pasture land. In

660-573: The Hospital in the city of New York, in America", later termed the "Society of the New York Hospital". Between 1816 and 1818 the Society of the New York Hospital purchased 26 acres (11 ha) of land on which to build an asylum in a part of upper Manhattan, then largely farmland and referred to as Bloomingdale Asylum. According to Andrew Dolkart , the large, "elegantly detailed Federal style brownstone building"

693-528: The United States becoming a leading world power . During the 20th century, family members continued to exercise massive influence over the country's economy through conglomerates such as Pan Am , J.H. Whitney & Company , and Freeport-McMoran . Beginning with William Collins Whitney , members of the Whitney family would also become major figures for more than a century in the breeding and racing of Thoroughbred horses. By marriage: The following

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726-621: The United States. Since 1912, it has been the main teaching hospital for Weill Cornell Medicine , the biomedical research unit and medical school of Cornell University. Weill Cornell is located on East 68th Street and York Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York City. Prior to moving there in 1932, it was located on Broadway between Duane Street and Anthony Street on present-day Worth Street . In 1998, New York Hospital merged with Presbyterian Hospital to form New York-Presbyterian Hospital . The hospital's origin can be traced to

759-518: The asylum from the thriving city of New York (at the time consisting only of lower Manhattan ) was called Bloomingdale Road in the 19th century, and is now called Broadway . The term "Bloomingdale" dates back to the era of Dutch rule in New Amsterdam, and is possibly a reference to " Bloemendaal ," the name of a small village in the flower-growing region near Haarlem in the Netherlands . Bloomingdale

792-466: The construction of a new campus. Some of the property was purchased by The Juilliard School and served as its campus until 1969. The Manhattan School of Music currently occupies the property on Claremont Avenue . In 1889, the Bloomingdale Asylum moved to a new campus in White Plains, New York . The campus was renamed the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic , after Payne Whitney (1876-1927) bequeathed

825-609: The faculty and instructional functions of the Cornell and Columbia medical school units remain largely distinct and independent. Each hospital in the NewYork–Presbyterian Healthcare System is affiliated with one of the two colleges. The York Avenue site functions as one of the six NYP campuses. In 2005, Komansky Children's Hospital was established at Weill Cornell Medical Center through philanthropic giving from American finance executive David Komansky for whom

858-525: The gentlemen present liberally contributed.” Soon thereafter, the new Governor of the Colony, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore through the interposition of Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden started a fund for the establishment of such a hospital. On June 13, 1771, King George III of Great Britain granted a royal charter to establish "The Society of the New York Hospital in the City of New York in America" and

891-485: The hospital is named. Komansky Children's Hospital is a pediatric acute care hospital located within Weill Cornell Medical Center. The hospital has 103 beds and is affiliated with Weill Cornell Medicine and is a member of New York-Presbyterian Hospital . The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–20 throughout New York City . The hospital

924-445: The hospital's creation. Later the same year, on November 3, 1769, Peter Middleton reported on progress with the hospital's creation in another address to King's College, stating “the necessity and usefulness of a public infirmary has so warmly and pathetically set forth in a discourse delivered by Dr. Samuel Bard... that his Excellency, Sir Henry Moore immediately set on foot a subscription for that purpose to which himself and most of

957-486: The old asylum in the early years. The last building erected on the Bloomingdale Asylum's Morningside Heights campus was the Macy Villa , a gabled, brick building with white trim, which was designed by architect Ralph Townsend to resemble a private home for the comfort of wealthy gentlemen afflicted with mental illnesses, and donated by William H. Macy in 1885. It is the only building from the old asylum that survives. It has had

990-441: The street frontage about 90 feet to allow for landscaping and expansion. The hospital's first patients were suffering from smallpox , syphilis , and acute bipolar disorder . In 1798, the hospital's governors announced the hospital's priorities as medical treatment, surgical treatment, psychiatric treatment of the medically ill (then called "maniacs"), and post-partum treatment of women. After some years of experience in treating

1023-440: The time on three sides by marshes. The location was several miles from the central part of New York; apparently the expansion of the city and the drainage of the marshes, which harbored malaria, was anticipated. A building's construction began in 1773 but was destroyed by fire before its completion. The American Revolutionary War delayed the building's reconstruction but a partial structure on Broadway and Duane Street served as

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1056-576: Was finished and opened on July 15, 1808. On the same day, 19 patients were moved to it from wards in other buildings and 48 total patients were admitted. The new department was called the Lunatic Asylum. In June 1821, the hospital opened the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum on Broadway and West 116th Street in Morningside Heights . Due to real estate pressures, the hospital moved to White Plains, New York in 1891, where it eventually became

1089-409: Was ready for occupancy in 1821. In 1829 the hospital erected another 30-bed building for a male population and in 1837 another building expansion for females. At the time the asylum was built it was the only hospital in the state caring for the mentally ill. Beginning in 1841, poor patients were moved to the newly opened New York City Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island ) and

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