File:Administration building at the Columbus State Hospital, postcard - DPLA - 3fa13205a2d9fed74e1644abbdfe26e5.jpg

View of the four story administration building at the Columbus State Hospital as seen from the front lawn. The front façade of the building was dominated by an elaborate white portico. Legislation to construct the Ohio Lunatic Asylum on East Broad Street was passed in 1835, and the first stone was laid on April 20, 1837. Construction was completed on November 10, 1839. The name was later changed to the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum in 1856. The building was completely destroyed by fire on November 18,1868. Governor Rutherford B. Hayes presided over the cornerstone laying ceremonies for the new Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, relocated to West Broad Street, on July 4, 1870. In 1874, the institution's name was changed to the Central Ohio Hospital for the Insane. When construction was completed in 1877, the Kirkbridge-style hospital began operation as the Columbus Hospital for the Insane and was one of the world's largest buildings under one roof. Various names that the Institution has been known under are: the Ohio Lunatic Asylum (1838 – 1856); the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum (1856-1873); the Central Ohio Hospital for the Insane (1874-1876); the Columbus Hospital for the Insane (1876-1894); the Columbus State Hospital (1894-1976); the Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital (1976-1997).