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Willsmere Mental Hospital
1 - 258 Wiltshire Drive, KEW VIC 3101 - Property No B1278
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The former Kew Lunatic Asylum may be one of the largest and most intact nineteenth century lunatic asylums in the world, and is certainly one of the most prominent examples of the E-plan barracks type. Almost all the surviving structures were erected in a single building campaign between 1868 and 1872, although work to Frederick Kawerau's design had commenced in 1864 as part of a major development programme which also resulted in the construction of smaller country asylums at
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