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• Portico
  Western entrance. Robert Mills, Plan of wings and courtyards, South Carolina Insane Asylum, 1821, in John M. Bryan, ed., Robert Mills, Architect (1989)
  41 KB (5,290 words) - 15:36, August 13, 2021
• Basin
  entrance of the Canal.” Robert Mills, Plan of wings and courtyards, South Carolina Insane Asylum, 1821. “Fountain basin.” J. C. Loudon, “Ponds or large basins”
  28 KB (3,634 words) - 15:51, April 8, 2021
• Promenade
  and rain.” [Fig. 8] Robert Mills, Plan of wings and courtyards, South Carolina Insane Asylum, 1821. Anonymous, “Principal Floor” of a Southern Villa—Romanesque
  21 KB (2,637 words) - 16:57, March 8, 2021
• Robert Mills
  Front of the Lunatic Asylum Columbia South Carolina, c. 1820. Robert Mills, Plan of wings and courtyards, South Carolina Insane Asylum, 1821. Robert Mills
  31 KB (4,335 words) - 20:13, August 18, 2021
• Shrubbery
  the hemicycle plat. Robert Mills, Plan of wings and courtyards, South Carolina Insane Asylum, 1821. J. C. Loudon, Shrubbery formed in the geometric style
  81 KB (11,408 words) - 14:15, March 31, 2021
• Fountain
  or fountain. . .” Robert Mills, Plan of wings and courtyards, South Carolina Insane Asylum, 1821. “Fountain basin.” J. C. Loudon, “Drooping fountains,”
  68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
• Yard
  description of the Friends Asylum for the Insane, in Charles Bulfinch’s 1818 plan of two wings added to Pleasant Hill to create McLean Asylum [Fig. 9], and in John
  70 KB (9,898 words) - 18:52, August 12, 2021
• Avenue
  describing the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, New York, NY (quoted in Hawkins 1991: 86) “The approach to the Asylum from the southern entrance, by
  89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
• Wall
  stone or marble, which was used at St. Philip’s Parish in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1826. William Forsyth recommended wooden coping in order to attach
  72 KB (10,638 words) - 16:02, April 1, 2021
• Lawn
  describing the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, New York, NY (quoted in Hawkins 1991: 86) “The approach to the Asylum from the southern entrance, by
  108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
• Kitchen garden
  description of the Friends Asylum for the Insane, near Frankford, Pennsylvania, and seen in the design for the Marine Asylum in Washington, DC [Fig. 1]
  61 KB (8,699 words) - 13:31, April 12, 2021
• Walk
  Lunatic Asylum Trustees, 1851, describing the ideal grounds for a lunatic asylum (quoted in Hawkins 1991: 53) “The salutary influence on the insane mind of
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Prospect
  The Vale, 1820–25. Robert Walter Weir, “Lunatic Asylum, New York,” Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, in New York Mirror (February 1, 1834): opp. 241
  57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
• Summerhouse
  William Paca in Annapolis, Maryland [See Fig. 4]. From New England to South Carolina, “summerhouse” seems to have been used as an umbrella term, which subsumed
  54 KB (7,141 words) - 13:18, April 12, 2021
• Park
  surrounding park, c. 1830. Robert Walter Weir, “Lunatic Asylum, New York,” Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, in New York Mirror (February 1, 1834): opp. 241
  87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
• Parterre
  549. Anonymous, Garden and Library, Friends’ Asylum for the Insane, 1838, in Friends’ Asylum for the Insane, 1813–1913 (1913), pl. opp. 70. Anonymous, Plat
  62 KB (8,610 words) - 10:50, April 6, 2021
• Fence
  Robert Waln Jr.’s 1825 description of the board fence at the Friends Asylum for the Insane in Pennsylvania (view text). Paling fences created visual barriers
  105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
• Pavilion
  1834. Anonymous, Garden and Library, Friends’ Asylum for the Insane, 1838, in Friends’ Asylum for the Insane, 1813—1913 (1913), pl. opp. 70. Thomas Kelah
  33 KB (4,449 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
• Piazza
  Charleston, SC (South Carolina Gazette) “. . . on a Creek fronting Charles-Town, with a neat pleasant-situated House thereon, having Piazzas South, West and
  57 KB (7,617 words) - 13:34, April 1, 2021
• Pleasure ground/Pleasure garden
  for the Insane, Philadelphia, PA (American Journal of Insanity 4: 347–52) “The pleasure grounds and farm of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, as shown
  58 KB (7,874 words) - 14:42, March 10, 2021

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