Cedar Springs Hospital celebrates 100 years: Past, present, future
A local behavioral health clinic is celebrating 100 years of providing mental health services to Colorado Springs.
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The hospital was founded by Dr. E. J. Brady in 1923 as the Colorado Springs Psychopathic Hospital.
While the view has since diminished after the construction of shopping plazas and parking lots,
For 60 years, the hospital was a family-run operation among the Brady clan.
The hospital was home for many members of the family, who went on to become doctors, nurses and administrators at the center. And for them, patients were like family.
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In it’s early years, the hospital was a working farm with livestock. Patients would lend a hand to help work the farm, ####.
While the family members during its original founding have since passed, Tim Brady?,
Some of the original buildings still stand, including the ###.
When construction began,
Cedar Springs’ services include a long-term residential program for juvenile sex offenders, an on-site school for troubled children and adolescents, a resource center staffed by the local nonprofit Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association, and assorted outpatient/inpatient programs and treatments.
Dr. E.J. Brady, founder of Colorado Springs’ first private psychiatric hospital.
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The patients, displaced when E.J. sold his share of the Woodcroft Hospital in Pueblo, needed a place to stay. The Bradys made room.
“They turned their home into a makeshift dormitory: Jim, his dad and the male patients slept downstairs; his mom, sisters and a couple of female patients slept upstairs,” the article from 1998 states.
Although most of Cedar Springs’ buildings are new or refurbished, the centerpiece – a massive, brick masterpiece called the Evergreen Building – remains prominent and virtually unchanged, right down to its original elevator. Built by Brady in 1932 as a residence hall for patients, Evergreen now houses the facility’s administrative area, including Mull’s office, which used to be the hospital library.
Construction of Dairy Barn.
Photo of James Brady, son of Dr. E.J. Brady
Superintendent’s Home, where Brady family lived
Residence Building- Men’s or Women’s
Residence Building- East side of Quad
Residence Building- north side of Quad
Original Sign
