The May House
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The May House
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This building is not owned by the State. It is the home of the Misses May whose father was former Deputy Superintendent of the State Infirmary. One of the May girls, the elder, works in New York City. The younger one works at Brown University. She is very much handicapped physically, the result of an attack of infantile paralysis occurring to her when she lived in the State Infirmary with her parents.
This home was formerly owned by Deputy Warden Slocum of the State Prison. I would advise the purchase of this property as it adjoins #16 [The Conn House] and is in very good repair.
Excerpt from: Scrapbook, c. 1930 of properties at Howard (Accession 1998-121)
It was the infusion of large amounts of federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds that dramatically altered the appearance of the Howard complex and permitted, if briefly, appropriate physical accommodation for patients, inmates, and attendants. Overcrowding has been a chronic problem at Howard and only the large-scale construction program of the WPA could solve it. Despite the building effort of the 1920s, in 1933 the State Hospital, with accommodations for 1,550, housed 2,235 and was labeled the most overcrowded mental hospital in the northeast.
Excerpt from: Historical Preservation Commission’s Statewide Historical Preservation Report P-C-1 on Cranston, 1980
See also:
Cranston: National Register of Historic Places, 1984
Report of the Committee of State Charities and Corrections Upon the State Institutions at Cranston, Made to the Senate, at its January Session, 1883
Report of the Joint Special Committee on the State Asylum for the Insane Made to the General Assembly at its January Session, A.D. 1868
Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission: Statewide Preservation Reports, 1975 - 1982
Article Written by William F. Gleason, M.D....on a State School for Feeble-Minded Children, 1907
Report of State Commission on Public Welfare Institutions, 1943
Special Legislative Commission to Study the Howard Complex records, 1970-1972
Annual Report of the State Hospital for Mental Diseases, 1922-1935
Mother's Aid Annual Report of the State Public Welfare Commission to the General Assembly, 1923 - 1935
State Home and School Annual Report, 1898-1935
External Related Resources:
Rhode Island Historical Society: Rhode Island State Institutions Records, 1839-1968 (bulk 1885-1944)
Missouri State Archives exhibit- Quest for a Cure: Care and Treatment in Missouri's First State Mental Hospital
This home was formerly owned by Deputy Warden Slocum of the State Prison. I would advise the purchase of this property as it adjoins #16 [The Conn House] and is in very good repair.
Excerpt from: Scrapbook, c. 1930 of properties at Howard (Accession 1998-121)
It was the infusion of large amounts of federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds that dramatically altered the appearance of the Howard complex and permitted, if briefly, appropriate physical accommodation for patients, inmates, and attendants. Overcrowding has been a chronic problem at Howard and only the large-scale construction program of the WPA could solve it. Despite the building effort of the 1920s, in 1933 the State Hospital, with accommodations for 1,550, housed 2,235 and was labeled the most overcrowded mental hospital in the northeast.
Excerpt from: Historical Preservation Commission’s Statewide Historical Preservation Report P-C-1 on Cranston, 1980
See also:
Cranston: National Register of Historic Places, 1984
Report of the Committee of State Charities and Corrections Upon the State Institutions at Cranston, Made to the Senate, at its January Session, 1883
Report of the Joint Special Committee on the State Asylum for the Insane Made to the General Assembly at its January Session, A.D. 1868
Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission: Statewide Preservation Reports, 1975 - 1982
Article Written by William F. Gleason, M.D....on a State School for Feeble-Minded Children, 1907
Report of State Commission on Public Welfare Institutions, 1943
Special Legislative Commission to Study the Howard Complex records, 1970-1972
Annual Report of the State Hospital for Mental Diseases, 1922-1935
Mother's Aid Annual Report of the State Public Welfare Commission to the General Assembly, 1923 - 1935
State Home and School Annual Report, 1898-1935
External Related Resources:
Rhode Island Historical Society: Rhode Island State Institutions Records, 1839-1968 (bulk 1885-1944)
Missouri State Archives exhibit- Quest for a Cure: Care and Treatment in Missouri's First State Mental Hospital
Source
Accession 1998-121 - Scrapbook of [Photographs], c. 1930 of properties at Howard (Cranston)
Publisher
Rhode Island State Archives
Date
c. 1930
Rights
Copyright is in the public domain unless otherwise specified. We reserve the right to restrict reproduction of materials due to preservation concerns.
Format
jpeg
Language
eng
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photo
Citation
Rhode Island. State Public Welfare Commission, "The May House," in Virtual Exhibits, Item #814, http://sos.ri.gov/virtualarchives/items/show/814 (accessed October 15, 2019).