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Established 1847
Butler Hospital for the Insane was the first hospital in Rhode Island exclusively for mentally ill patients. The creation of this hospital resulted from a visit and report by Dorothea Dix, and the philanthropy of industrialist Cyrus Butler. A grant from Nicholas Brown funded the opening.
Photograph © Donovan K. Loucks, from the H.P.Lovecraft Site.