St. Elizabeths Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Southeast Washington, D.C. operated by the District of Columbia Department of Mental Health. The hospital opened in 1855 under the name Government Hospital for the Insane, the first federally operated psychiatric hospital in the United States.
Location: 1100 Alabama Avenue, Southeast, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Opened: October 1855
Built: 1852
Architect: Thomas U. Walter; Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge
Architectural style: Italianate Revival, Italian Gothic Revival
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