In a message dated 5/27/2007 11:08:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time, AldDan@aol.com writes: Along with structural changes, the facility has also undergone various name changes. When the City of St. Louis separated from St. Louis County, the facility's name changed from St. Louis County Lunatic Asylum to St. Louis City Insane Asylum. Thirty-five years later, it was renamed City Sanitarium. ________ FYI, the City separated from the County in 1876. Here is the correct web site for the Missouri Institute of Mental Health Library: _http://www.mimh.edu/library/_ (http://www.mimh.edu/library/) There is a link there stating the following: Archival Patient Records 1869 - 1911 Patients were first admitted to the St. Louis County Insane Asylum on Arsenal Street in April, 1869. In 1876, with the political split between St. Louis County and St. Louis City, the asylum came under City jurisdiction and was called the St. Louis City Asylum. In the 1920s the facility was known as the St. Louis City Sanitarium. In the 1940s the facility came under the auspices of the Missouri Division of Mental Diseases, and was named the St. Louis State Hospital. In the 1990s the name was once again changed to St. Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center. The patients listed in the asylum records from 1869 - 1911 were under the County and later the City authorities, not the State. The Library has the original patient record books from 1869 through 1911, plus microfilmed copies of the record books. With authorized permission, individuals doing mental health history research or genealogical research may use the microfilmed copies for their study. Prior to planning to use the archival records please contact the MIMH Librarian at _christina.sullivan@mimh.edu_ (mailto:christina.sullivan@mimh.edu) or 314-877-6516 for further information and guidelines. Dan McGuire ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.