INDEPENDENCE STATE HOSPITAL

(Independence Mental Health Institute)

2277 Iowa Avenue, independence, ia

(319) 334-2583 Number is for the Historical Society to Book a Tour

Status: Former Insane Asylum; Historical Building; Operational Psychiatric Hospital; Limited Public Entry

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History

This asylum was built in 1873 to relieve overcrowding at the Mount Pleasant State Hospital. Its original purpose was to house the alcoholics, geriatrics, drug addicts and the criminally insane.

Many of the archaic and – by today’s standards – inhuman treatments such as hydrotherapy and lobotomies were used in the past.

Portions of the hospital are open today as a nurse’s school and a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic. Unlike many of its contemporaries this hospital has been kept up and even has had renovations done.

 

Paranormal Activity

Shadow figures, disembodied whispers, laughter and screams, cold spots, light anomalies and feelings of being watched and not alone.