Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital

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Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital Gatehouse, December 2009
Geography
Location	Towson, Maryland, United States
Organization
Funding	Private
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Psychiatric hospital
History
Former name(s)	Sheppard Asylum
Opened	1891
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Maryland
Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital and Gatehouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
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Location	Charles St., Towson, Maryland
Coordinates	39°23′28″N 76°37′9″W / 39.39111°N 76.61917°W / 39.39111; -76.61917
Area	20.9 acres (8.5 ha)
Built	1860
Architect	Calvert Vaux; Dixon, Thomas & James M.
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival, Norman Revival
NRHP reference No.	71000369
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 11, 1971[1]
Designated NHL	November 11, 1971[2]

The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, known to many simply as Sheppard Pratt, is a psychiatric hospital located in Towson, a northern suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1853, it is one of the oldest private psychiatric hospitals in the nation. Its original buildings, designed by architect Calvert Vaux, and its Gothic gatehouse, built in 1860 to a design by Thomas and James Dixon, were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.^[2]