Chestnut Lodge (formerly known as Woodlawn Hotel ) is a historic building in Rockville, Maryland, United States, known as a psychiatric institution. It's a property that contributes to the Montgomery Avenue Historic District.
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History
In 1886, Charles G. Wilson commissioned an architect to build a four-story "summer house" on a 5-hectare (2.0 ha) plot he bought west of Rockville. During the construction of the building, Wilson filed for bankruptcy, and an unfinished building was bought for $ 6,000 by Mary J. Colley (owner of Clarendon Hotel in Washington DC) and his colleague Charles W. Bell. Under their ownership, the building was opened as a Woodlawn Hotel in the spring of 1889. The hotel boasts an electric bell, gas lamp and 40 luxurious and very successful guest rooms, serving wealthy visitors from Washington DC who often ride in hotels during the season months hot.
After a decade or so of prosperity, however, the fate of the Woodlawn Hotel declined as many semi-permanent residents moved into new homes in Rockville. In 1906, the owner of the hotel was heavily indebted and forced to sell the building and yard at a public auction. This hotel was bought by Dr. Ernest L. Bullard, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a surgeon and professor of psychiatry and neurology. Bullard renovated the building and reopened it in 1910 as a sanatorium for the treatment of neurological and mental illness, changing its name to Chestnut Lodge after 125 chestnut trees growing on the ground.
For years, Bullard was the only doctor working at the Lodge, but over the next 75 years a total of three generations of the Bullard family operated a private hospital. Many nationally renowned therapists, including Clarence Edward Bunge, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Wayne Fenton, Thomas McGlashan, Harold Searles, and Otto Allen Will, Jr., worked in hospitals for many years. The hospital is the place for a series of influential studies on long-term treatment outcomes for psychiatric conditions, known as Chestnut Lodge study.
In the 1950s and 1960s, innovative dance therapist Marian Chace regularly scheduled sessions with patient groups. Judith Richardson Bunney followed her in this work. In the 1960s and 1970s, Donn B. Murphy performed a drama group for patients.
In 1997, the cabin was purchased by CPC Health, and handed over to the Washington Waldorf School in 2001 when CPC Health declared bankruptcy. In December 2003, the property was submitted to Chestnut Lodge Properties, Inc.
In 2008, the property was approved for conversion to condominiums (inside the main building) and upscale housing. The forest of chestnut trees and some of the original building façade should be preserved. But around 3:00 am on June 7, 2009, the building was destroyed by fire. Montgomery County Fire Brigade spokesman Pete Piringer said the unpopulated, multi-storey brick building collapsed in a fire Sunday morning. He said the building was uninhabited and no one was hurt. The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
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