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.

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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.

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