- City:
- Camarillo, CA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Designers:
- Geo. B. McDougal, Howard Spencer Hazen
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The former Camarillo State Hospital for the Insane was closed in 1997 and became the CSU-Channel Islands campus.
The old hospital was begun in the early 1930s, but when the Roosevelt Administration came into office, the Public Works Administration (PWA) took over funding the project in 1934.
With the aid from the PWA, the hospital was completed in 1936. At the time, it was the largest and most advanced mental institution west of the Mississippi.
Source notes
Short, C. W. and R. Stanley-Brown (1939) Public Buildings: Architecture Under the Public Works Administration, 1933 to 1939. United States Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.
A news-history timeline for the CSH:
https://www.library.csuci.edu/history/documents/news_timeline.html
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