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This photograph shows the newly constructed Hopkins Gymnasium on the East Campus of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. James "Red" Pratt, Director of Adjunctives Therapies is shooting baskets while an unidentified staff member is lifting weights. In 1925, the Menninger Sanitarium Corporation purchased a farmhouse on the west edge of Topeka, Kansas. The farmhouse became the inpatient clinic and the surrounding 20 acres were developed with buildings and gardens to become the "East Campus" of the Menninger Foundation. This photograph documents the construction of an important building in the Menninger philosophy of treatment. In 1982, the "West Campus", a much larger area, was developed west of Topeka, a residential scale community of 28 structures on a 350 acre hilltop campus. In 2003, the Menninger Foundation was moved to Houston, Texas.
Date: 1952
Item Number: 227220
Call Number: Menninger Fdn. Photographic Collection, Box 39 #213
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 227220
Built Environment - Function - Recreation and Culture - Sports Facility - Recreation centers
Business and Industry - Health care - Mental health facilities - Menninger
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Activity therapists
Collections - Photograph - Menninger Foundation
Community Life - Community services - Mental health facilities - Menninger
Date - 1950s - 1952
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Photographs
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