MONTANA STATE HOSPITAL (WARM SPRINGS)
Hospital — Warm Springs, Montana
Status: Historic site · Access: Restricted access · est. 1877
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/montana-state-hospital-warm-springs-warm-springs-montana/

The 1877 territorial asylum in the Deer Lodge Valley.

A hospital in Warm Springs, Montana, built in 1877, Montana State Hospital (Warm Springs) is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1877 territorial asylum in the Deer Lodge Valley. HauntHunt files it with haunted places, historic hospitals and dark history. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly.

Montana State Hospital is the asylum that was a resort — the Warm Springs hotel and spa that became the territory's insane asylum in 1877, when the doctors who owned the springs took the contract for the mental patients. The hot water that drew the tourists became the therapy for the asylum.
The contract system was Montana's solution — the territory didn't want to run an asylum, so it paid Mitchell and Mussigbrod to take the patients at their spa. The partners expanded from 160 to 1,640 acres and 32 buildings — the hotel, the convalescent house, the violent ward, the plunge pool — a resort that was also a madhouse.
The state took it in 1912 and it kept the springs — the hospital went through six names and peaked at nearly 2,000 patients, still in the valley where the hot water made the site. The file keeps the asylum's origin: the resort that became the territory's mental hospital, the private contractors who ran it, and the warm springs that were the reason it was there.
Montana State Hospital is the archive's spa file — the 1877 asylum in the resort hotel, the contract system that made the territory's madhouse a business, and the hot springs that drew the patients and the tourists to the same water.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Montana State is the archive's contract file — the asylum run as a concession, the resort that took the territory's insane, and the springs that were the therapy before the state took over.
An asylum that was a spa keeps its water — the file's suggestion being that Warm Springs' hold is the springs: the hot water that made the site, the resort-asylum hybrid, and the hospital that's still on the contract's ground.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] reported anomalies: Reported voices and figures on the grounds. An institution's ghosts are arithmetic: enough years, enough misery, and the reports write themselves. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. 'Montana State Hospital' carries the account. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.
  source: Montana State Hospital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_State_Hospital)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1877] Opened 1877; still operating. Montana State Hospital (Warm Springs)'s operational history is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the asylum lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Montana State Hospital' carry the record. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Montana State Hospital — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_State_Hospital

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