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The Redlands Area Historical Society, Inc.<\/p>\n
Program Announcement<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe History of Patton State Hospital\u201d<\/p>\n
Monday, September 25, 2023<\/p>\n
7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Contemporary Club<\/p>\n
173 S. Eureka Street, Redlands<\/p>\n
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The Redlands Area Historical Society has invited Anthony Ortega for a return engagement on September 25, 2023 at the Contemporary Club, 173 S. Eureka Street at 7:00 p.m.\u00a0 Mr. Ortega is the chief social worker at the hospital.\u00a0 In this position he has studied the hospital history beginning in 1893.\u00a0 At first the Patton Insane Asylum operated under an entirely different philosophy of care.\u00a0 Mr. Ortega has accumulated philosophical changes and gathered previous equipment for a museum that documents these improvements.<\/p>\n
The original hospital buildings were gothic in design.\u00a0 Stone for construction came from the Mill Creek Sandstone Company with headquarters in Mentone.\u00a0 The quarry cut and finished polished sandstone that was shipped by wagon from Mill Creek to the Mentone Santa Fe Depot for shipment to Highland and the Patton Depot.<\/p>\n
The hospital provides treatment for mental illness for nearly 1,500 patients daily.\u00a0 Museum studies\u2019 students from Cal State, San Bernardino since 2015 assisted Ortega to create a museum.\u00a0 The power-point program is very interesting and begins showing the original buildings that housed the hospital.<\/p>\n