The Hospital in Anna is operating and is named: Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center Department of mental Health and Developmental Disabilities 1000 North Main St. Anna,IL 62906 Phone-618-835-5161 Ext 640 1-800-383-1161 They have a cemetery on the grounds where some of the early patients are buried,but all of the stones have been removed.The staff is very helpful. Gerald R. DeHart ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yulondia Nolen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 8:04 PM Subject: Fw: [ILSTCLAI] Anna State Hospital > I live within 50 or so miles from Anna and can remember it being > referred to as Anna State Hospital whenever I was young. I would say it > has been closed since the mid to late 40's. > Yulonda > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rev Jim Bridges" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 7:33 AM > Subject: Re: [ILSTCLAI] Anna State Hospital > > > >From the Illinois Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois (1927), p. 492 > (http://www.carolyar.com/Illinois/Misc/Anna.htm) > > Southern Hospital for the Insane, located at Anna, Union County, founded > by > act of the Legislature in 1869. The original site comprised 290 acres > and > cost a little more than $22,0000, of which one-fourth was donated by > citizens of the county. The construction of buildings was begun in > 1869, > but it was not until March 1875, that the north wing (the first > completed) > was ready for occupancy. Other portions were completed a year later. > The > Trustees purchased 160 additional acres in 1883. The first cost (up to > September, 1876) was nearly $635,000. In 1881 one wing of the main > building > was destroyed by fire, and was subsequently rebuilt; the patients being, > meanwhile, cared for in temporary wooden barracks. The total value of > lands > and buildings belong to the State, June 30, 1894, was estimated at > $738,580, > and, of property of all sorts, at $833, 700. The wooden barracks were > later > converted into a permanent ward, additions made to the main buildings, a > detached building for the accommodations of 300 patients erected, > numerous > outbuildings put up and general improvements made. A second fire on the > night of Jan. 3, 1895, destroyed a large part of the main building, > inflicting a loss upon the State of $175,000.00. Provision was made for > rebuilding by the Legislature of that year. The institution has > capacity > for about 750 patients. > > > > >