The following is an account published in the Sunday Oregonian June 14, 1936. The piece was co-written by a staff reporter and a patient at the Oregon State Hospital. It offers a unique first hand [...]
The State of Oregon is seeking public input and feedback regarding a memorial to honor the more than 3,000 unclaimed cremains of people who died while living in state institutions. A [...]
Cupola replaced, scaffolding gone and landscaping taking shape, the J-building has undergone an amazing transformation in the past year. Top photo is from today, August 8, 2011. Bottom photo is from July 2010.
In 1972, 51 Oregon State Hospital patients and 51 Oregon State Hospital staff spent 16 days on a wilderness trip in Eastern Oregon. It was an experimental, and perhaps radical, program designed to radically change the [...]
The following is an obituary published in a Salem paper June 15, 1930. Dr. Lewis Frank Griffith, then Assistant Superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital, died June 14. Served faithfully at State institution 39 Years; [...]
The following list contains the names and positions of the staff of the Eastern Oregon State Hospital (Pendleton, Oregon) during its first two years of operation (1913-1914). This list was published in the report [...]
The Trails facility at the Oregon State Hospital will be holding a public open house and tour Friday, July 29, 2011, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. During [...]
On January 26, 1913, 325 patients were transferred from the Oregon State Hospital in Salem to the newly built Eastern Oregon State Hospital in Pendleton. [1] The first impetus for the new hospital [...]
A post on the Capital Taps Blog recently featured an article on Louis Hazeltine, an architect responsible for the design and furnishing the “Physicians’ Cottages” at the Oregon State Hospital. At the start of the [...]
Museum preparations are in full swing, with our tentative opening set for May of next year (2012). The hospital has gotten a head start on us, installing these great directional signs to lead people from [...]