Century Manor
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Official Page For Century Manor, Located in Hamilton Ontario The building now known as Century Manor was once known by the name Hamilton Asylum for the Insane.
It was an insane asylum built in the 1800s, which was in use until the late 1900s, when it was turned into a museum and eventually closed for good. The stories of what went on in the Manor are incredible: experiments on patients, horrible conditions, murders and suicides. These things and much more can explain why this is considered one of the most haunted buildings in Hamilton, Ontario. Please check out our exploration photos, watch our video tour, and like the page!
01/01/2025
Annual General Meeting and Presentation on Century Manor by Indwell
All are welcome. Event is Free
Date: Thursday January 16, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church (formerly Transfiguration Lutheran)
232 Fennell Avenue E Hamilton, ON L9A 1S7 (Upper Wellington and Fennell)
Our first meeting of 2025 includes our Annual General Meeting and selection of Directors for our Society for the new year. We will also hear from Indwell about Century Manor.
Indwell is currently developing plans to convert the historic Century Manor, part of the former Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital grounds on Hamilton Mountain, into supportive affordable housing. Graham Cubitt will provide us with an overview of Indwell’s past experience with adapting heritage properties to meet contemporary needs, with an update on their vision for Century Manor’s future.
We hope you can join us.
09/07/2024
The manor might be saved afterall 🤯 🙌🏻
Massive deal for asylum lands calls for LTC beds, affordable housing in Century Manor The brow lands deal includes Mohawk College, the City of Hamilton and Indwell
08/14/2020
UPDATE: Ford government opens hospital brow lands to residential redevelopment and possible long-term-care facility The Tory government backed out of a deal in 2018 to sell the brow lands and Century Manor to Mohawk College that would have put $9.5 million into affo...
02/20/2019
Asylum medical and nursing staff 1935
"The Hamilton Asylum for the Insane, also called the Ontario Hospital and later the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, was initially intended to be an asylum for ‘inebriates'. However there was more need for beds for the mentally disturbed and this became its sole concern. The Hamilton Asylum for the Insane began operation in 1876 on 529 acres of land with 202 patients. Patients came from the counties of Wentworth, Halton, Peel, Simcoe, Wellington, Waterloo, Norfolk, Haldimand, Welland, Lincoln and the City of Hamilton. The two closest asylums were Toronto and London.
Until well into the 20th century it was accessible only by a dirt road and was therefore quite isolated. However it was largely self-sufficient with the farm, on which the hospital stood, providing all the necessary food. Cattle, chickens and pigs as well as fruits and vegetables all came from the farm. It had its own bakery, butcher's shop, greenhouse, root cellar, milk-processing house, tailor's shop, sewing room, upholstery shop, fire hall, power house, a fleet of vehicles, skating and curling rinks, a bowling green, tennis courts and chapel. In 1890 it housed 915 patients and employed 119 people. The Asylum Ball was an annual event in the Hamilton community for many years. Its guest list was a who's who of Hamilton society.
Around 1902, it established a training school for psychiatric nursing which was accredited in 1924. It graduated over 240 nurses before it closed in 1956. The facility also provided training in psychiatric nursing to nurses from the other city hospitals.
The Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital was owned and operated for more than 124 years by the Ontario government. In November 2000 it was transferred to the authority of the St. Joseph's Healthcare-Hamilton and has been renamed the Centre for Mountain Health Services. " - McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences
Image courtesy BellesJ/Ancestry.ca
10/04/2018
Ford strikes again :( the fate of century manor is unfortunately once again up in the air
No deal: Province backs out of agreement to sell brow lands and use proceeds for affordable housing The complicated deal to sell the brow lands and Century Manor to Mohawk College was announced by the previous Liberal government.
05/21/2018
https://globalnews.ca/news/4185121/mohawk-college-expands-affordable-housing/
Land sale means expansion for Mohawk College, new affordable housing downtown It is the culmination of a process that started three years ago, when the province declared the former Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital lands on Fennell Avenue to be surplus to its needs.
05/03/2018
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/york-chedoke-1.4646593
Mohawk will buy Century Manor land, and the money will build a tower downtown | CBC News Mohawk College will buy 8.5 hectares of former Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital land on the Mountain brow — including Century Manor — and the province will use the proceeds toward a new mixed-use tower downtown.
05/03/2018
More news as it comes! Century Manor has officially been saved :)
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