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Item Title
Agnews State Hospital, Mortuary Building, Fourth Street near Avenue A, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA
LocationFourth Street near Avenue A,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CA-2710-BJ
Building/structure dates:
1917 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1952 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1994 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1998 demolished
Significance: Building 215 is significant for the period from 1917 to 1941 as a component of the reconstruction of Agnews State Hospital in a pavilion plan. The Mortuary was a necessary building at a hospital whose patient population exceeded one thousand. The building allowed Agnews staff to prepare their deceased for burial on site instead of being dependent on facilities in the surrounding communities.
Related Names
Stock, Jody, Historian
Corbett, Michael, Historian
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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