Talk:Anoka State Asylum/@comment-43775706-20190909141640

The Anoka State Hospital was established by an act of the legislature as the First State Asylum for the Insane. When it opened in 1900, the hospital served as a transfer asylum, admitting patients who were transferred from the state’s receiving hospitals, which admitted mentally ill patients for the first time. In 1951, it too, became a receiving hospital. The first residents, 100 male patients, came from St. Peter State Hospital and were considered to be "chronic, incurables." By 1906, 115 female patients had been transferred to the hospital from the facility in St. Peter. In 1909, it was decided that Anoka would admit only female transfer patients and that the state hospital in Hastings would admit the male transfer patients. However, construction of an additional building in 1925 allowed the hospital once again to admit male patients.

From 1948 to 1967, the hospital served as the tuberculosis treatment center for the mentally ill. During the early 1970s, the hospital administered programs for emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.

Patient records for the Anoka State Hospital can be viewed in person at the library or ordered online from our  State Hospital Records Request.

'''This is what i found when i researched this place. Thought itd be nice to know the history :)'''