July 15, 1885 -- Established as the Utah Territorial Insane Asylum.
1891 -- Administration building completed, staff lived in part of building.
1896 -- Renamed Utah State Insane Asylum when statehood granted, daily cost of treatment is 32 cents a year per patient.
1903 -- Became Utah State Mental Hospital. Plans for 600-acre campus extension developed.
1922 -- Hyde building for women completed.
1927 -- Name changed to Utah State Hospital. Provision made for volunteer admissions.
1935 -- "Dracula," "Frankenstein" movies cause administration to remodel to reduce the stigma and depart from the castle-like look of the buildings.
1942 -- Electric shock introduced.
1955 -- Patient population peaks at 1,500.
1956 -- Insulin and shock therapy discontinued.
1963 -- First patient camping trip to southern Utah approved.
1971 -- Main building declared a fire hazard (demolished in 1976).
1986 -- The hospital "castle" added to National Historic Register.
1992 -- Four-phase master plan developed to replace and upgrade facilities.
1994 -- Opened the Lucy Beth Rampton "low-risk" building for civilly committed adult patients.
1998 -- Hospital decides to discontinue annual haunted house staffed by patients and employees because the National Alliance for Mentally Ill was concerned about the social stigma. Event had raised $100,000 each year.
September 1999 -- New forensic building scheduled to open doors.