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This collection is composed primarily of project drawings, reports, letters and some photographs of general medical and specifically CMHC (Community Mental Health Centers) projects from across the United States received and commented upon by Dorsett while at the NIMH from 1963 to 1982. It also includes projects received and/or discussed by Dorsett after that date while acting as a private design consultant. The other, somewhat smaller portions of the collection, his reference material, professional and personal papers, comprise of studies, notes, articles, guidelines, private architectural projects, student design work, and various ephemera.
1940-1991
This collection is made up of four series: Project Records, Professional Papers, Reference Files, and Personal Papers.
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Clyde Dorsett papers, 1940-1991, (bulk 1952-1982), Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
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Clyde H. Dorsett was born in Burlington, North Carolina in 1925. While still in his teens, he took part in the Allied Invasion of Normandy in 1944 receiving the Bronze Star Medal.[1] Clyde Dorsett's first experience in medical design began soon after his return, in 1946: an apprentice at the offices of Louis Jallade in New York City where he worked on a 200-bed hospital project. Dorsett went on to receive his bachelor's degree in architecture from the School of Design, North Carolina State University in 1953, part of which time he studied under Buckminster Fuller. He was noted for his unusual skill in mastering detail design both in terms of construction and program – later put to good use in his diagnostic work at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 1965. Between this period he co-established the short-lived partnership Dorsett & Smyre Architects. Though working on a number of project types, Dorsett again found himself engaged in hospital design and construction, this time for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington D.C., when he began to realize that there were growing design opportunities in the field.[2]
He studied at Columbia University from 1962-63 where he completed his master's degree in architecture majoring in hospital and public health facilities planning and design. The timing could not have been more fortunate. Following the passing of the Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) Act of 1963, the NIMH suddenly found itself responsible for overseeing the wholesale transformation of the nation's medical health built infrastructure. To achieve this, Dorsett was brought in to establish its architectural consultation section of which he became chief. He would go on to develop most of the regulations, policies and programs related to architectural aspects of the Act. The new section was staffed by architects with backgrounds as diverse as anthropology, psychology, management, programming, mental health, and general hospital planning, while Dorsett foresaw this expanding into other related expertise such as in corrective services, children's programs and total health services.
During his time at the NIMH Dorsett also worked closely with a team of medical experts, believing that the medical program and the actual facility should be inseparable, that "they are the same thing."[3] Together they helped develop national policy and provided project-by-project consultation across each state for the relevant health care bodies and their private architects – with each project given a unique code comprising of state, project type and number. Site visits across the country were frequent, regional workshops not infrequent, with a constant stream of planning drawings and written advice flowing through the NIMH offices.[4] Dorsett's overriding belief was that good healthcare design should provide a humane, welcoming environment as opposed to the institutional character that normally felt with such building types. To this aim he sponsored a large body of research in environmental psychology. Among his early collaborators were Sim Van der Ryn and Christopher Alexander, the latter for whom he contributed some sections to his "pattern language." By 1978 Dorsett was finally able to take his theories to their ultimate conclusion – the total breaking down of monolithic institutional design and the re-empowering of patients in the healing process – with his consultation work for the Hawaii State Hospital. Here the "village system" approach was adopted: clustered buildings broken down into discreet housing units in a semi-urban setting. This and others like it at the time, reflected new ideas of the needs of patients and of medical support staff to be cognizant of their interactions and social relations across various scales: from the individual to the group, to the multiple, to the neighborhood or village – a direct influence of Alexander's thinking.
Dorsett often fussed over both the details and the wider aims of a project, yet was described as having a "smooth, low key approach."[5] Indeed so well-known was his technical support in linking facilities to programs that the process was once dubbed as "Dorsetting."[6] His frequent travel across the various states and the personal sacrifices this entailed also earned him the praise of his director, Dr. Frank M. Ochberg, who described him as "my ambassador-at-large."[7]
Dorsett took early retirement from the institute in 1982, possibly as a consequence of cutbacks in consultation services by the NIMH that Dorsett was beginning to forewarn his clients of as early as 1979.[8] He was now working in a partnership with Constantine Karalis, as senior partner to the practice Dorsett and Karalis, Associates. Dorsett's old projects continued to be utilized by him as pattern touchstones for his new and existing clients right up until the 1990s. His expertise now earned him a wider international audience, consulting for health authorities in the West Indies, and advising the World Health Organization and the State Department. He died at his home at Queenstown, Maryland, in 2007.
Sources:
1. Adam Bernstein, Clyde H. Dorsett; Architectural Consultant,
2. Sam A. Kimble [Department of Health, Education and Welfare] to Dorsett, March 23, 1962.
3. "Community Mental Health Centers Team: Everyone's in a Different Game,"
4. Clyde H. Dorsett, "Broader Goals for the Architect and Government in Community Planning,"
5. Thomas W. Carey (Department of Health & Human Services) to Dorsett, Nov. 7, 1980.
6. Jack A. Bartleson (ADAMH Branch) to Steven Sharfstein, M.D. (DMHSB), July 27, 1976.
7. Frank M. Ochberg [Division of Mental Health Services Program, NIMH] to Dorsett, May 30, 1975.
8. Ian Osborn [Pennsylvania State Hospital] to Dorsett, Oct. 24, 1979.
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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By far the largest component of the collection, this principally covers the 'raw material' received by Clyde Dorsett throughout his architectural consultation work: projects undertaken by various architects for their medical authority clients across the United States, and sent to the NIMH for comment. These date from 1963 to 1982 – the period of Dorsett's administration. There are also a number of further documents after that date sent to Dorsett during his extensive later period as a private consultant. Most work is related either directly or indirectly to hospital or CMHC design. A few of these contain hand-drawn or written comments by Dorsett, while a number contain letters of correspondence between the NIMH and other participants. The series comprises of drawings, files (written material) and photographs. The working and presentation drawings are mostly reproductions (blueprints, diazotypes, photostats) occasionally marked up by Dorsett or others. The files includes reports, correspondence letters, notes, often with their counterpart drawings. The project photographs form only a very small part of Series I. The Project Records Series is catalogued alphabetically first by state and within each, by project name – with drawings, files and/or photographs pertaining to each project kept in sequence. A few projects are unidentifiable by either title or state and have been placed at the end of the series.
Item Subseries 1: Drawings
A complete inventory of these drawings may be found in thisdownloadable Excel spreadsheet.
Item Subseries 2: Files
A complete inventory of these drawings may be found in thisdownloadable Excel spreadsheet.
Item Subseries 3: Photographs
A complete inventory of these photographs may be found in thisdownloadable Excel spreadsheet.
This series comprises of his professional work outside of particular projects, including historical research, case studies, reports, guidelines, lecture notes, articles, and papers. The series is arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 16 Folder 36
Lecture by Dorsett to Mississippi chapter (Feb. 3, 1967); AIA letter of appointment to Architecture for Criminal Justice Comm. (Dec. 21, 1973)
Box 16 Folder 37
Dorsett, "Broader Goals for the Architect and Government in Community Planning,"AIA Government Affairs Review70:10, November 1970
Box 16 Folder 38
Clyde H. Dorsett and James Falick, "Designs link Mental Health Facilities with Community Activities"(Hospitals: Journal of the AHA, 1964)
Box 16 Folder 39
Dorsett, "New Directions in Mental Health Facilities,"AIA Journal, November 1964 (Includes two unattributed loose photos kept by Dorsett in original file)
Box 16 Folder 40
Dorsett,Furniture for the Community Mental Health Center
Box 16 Folder 41
Dorsett, "The Suicidal Patient and their Treatment Environment" (Journal?)
Box 16 Folder 42
Articles on Dorsett
Box 16 Folder 43
Dorsett, Design for Psychiatric Emergency Facilities (Draft document); includes loose notebook pages on history of mental health services in America
Box 16 Folder 44
"Handbook/ Changing Places & Settings,"Architecture/Research/Construction
Box 16 Folder 45
Dorsett, Review: "Handbook: Changing Places and Settings,"Hospital and Community Psychiatry27 (8): 590-1
Box 16 Folder 46
Dorsett's letter on CMHC regulations; published guide to ammended Act; Recognition of Dorsett's contribution to (cash award recommendation)
Box 16 Folder 47
Brice Hospital (formally Alabama Insane Hospital, 1852-1861). Includes history of the hospital (2 copies) and plan
Box 16 Folder 48
Folder entitled: "NIMH: Community Program History;" Excerpts from journals
Box 16 Folder 49
Folder entitled: "Fort Logan: A Community-Oriented Program" (history of); includes Dorsett's notes on history of Fort Logan
Box 17 Folder 1
Clyde H. Dorsett and Constance M. Callahan, "Design for Psychiatric Emergency Facilities;" includes "Attachment 'C' Environmental Patterns"
Box 17 Folder 2
Dorsett, "Request for a Sabbatical Position" submitted 28 Sept. 1972. 2 copies
Box 17 Folder 3
Dorsett, LaRue Jones, Wittman, "Draft Guidelines … for CMHC: Environmental Support (Architecture)," Dec. 1969
Roll A092M.10b
Country House Project (unlabeled, by Dorsett)
Box 17 Folder 4
Matrix sheet. Dorsett writes: "Jake, this is a list of those environmental design objectives which I used in cosidering the children's well-being"
Box 17 Folder 5
Environ. Design Research Project, Care and Treatment Facilities for Mentally Ill, University of Washington, Ontario, Canada
Box 17 Folder 6
Annotated and expanded version ofA Pattern Language Which Generates Multi-service Centers, by Christopher Alexander et al.
Box 17 Folder 7
Elements of Mental Health Facilities Design & ephemera
Box 17 Folder 8
Dorsett,Physical Planning Guidelines for Community Mental Health Centers
Box 17 Folder 9
Miscellaneous study of various facility spaces (Inpatient, Outpatient, Community Education, Emergency and Admitting); includes diagram transparencies
Box 17 Folder 10
Dorsett,A Place for Suicide(Guidelines). Includes Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language components
Box 17 Folder 11
Dorsett,Architectural Directives; (For an unindentified or generic project)
Box 17 Folder 12
Karalis, Dorsett,Reuse of Buildings for Mental Health Facilities "Workbook,"Rhode Island School of Design Grant No. 1 R12 MH 27596-01 (for New England States)
Box 17 Folder 13
History of Psychiatric Architecture
Box 17 Folder 14
From folder entitled: "Mr. Dorsett's European Trip"; includes unidentified photo contact sheet, various itineraries, brochures, plans
Box 17 Folder 15
Community Support Program: Request for Advice (Vanessa M. Dazio, Occupational Therapist, Oct. 7, 1977)
Box 17 Folder 16
Dorsett-Ozarin,Open Form. Response to Davis Glick Rosow'sThe Architecture Design of a Psychoterapeutic Milieu
Box 17 Folder 17
Dorsett's letterheads and stationery for his private consultancy practice
Box 17 Folder 18
Dorsett's letters of employment (application and recommendation) with various architects in North and South Carolina
Box 17 Folder 19
Dorsett: Design of his private consultancy letterhead logo
Box 20
1 reel : Proceedings of Training Program on Juvenile D.[delinquency], Jan. 17-19, 1961
Box 20
6 reels : AIA conference Oct. 2, 1967 p.m. Reels 3 & 4; Oct. 3, 1967 a.m. Reels 5 & 6; p.m. Reels 6 & 8 (Reels 1 & 2 missing)
Box 20
1 reel : entitled: "5. A Mental Health Program in Hawaii - Dr. Kendall Wallis"
Box 17 Folder 20
Dorsett, Matrix for Planning & Design of Therapeutic Recreation Facilities; includes five slides of parts of the matrix
Box 17 Folder 21
Buker's paper, revision of current CMHC legislation; includes NIMH organization structure chart. (From folder entitled: "Adv. ADHOC Committee. Environ. for M.H.")
Box 17 Folder 22
Hospital visit reports (various), CMHCs for children (e.g. Fernhook, Delaware), maximum security psychiatric hospitals (Butner, N. Carolina)
Box 17 Folder 23
City map of Norman, Oklahoma, Photo of unidentified hospital, project file card, Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program leaflet
Box 17 Folder 24
Dorsett's early office projects (1950s)
Box 17 Folder 25
Miscellaneous from folder entitled "Metropolitan" (lecture notes, journal project notes, photographs)
Box 17 Folder 26
From album entitled "Clyde Dorsett 'Superstar'", 2 Buckminster Fuller; 3 of conference c. 1967; 3 copies of Dorsett's portrait; 2 small color photos of Dorsett in 1970s
Box 17 Folder 27
Adamha NewsIV: 4, March 1978. Sent to Dorsett by Steven Sharfstein, MD, Acting Director, DMHSP, NIMH
Box 17 Folder 28
Dorsett,Mental Health and Architecture(handwritten note);The Architecture of Mental Health(typed)
Box 17 Folder 29
Historical research on the evolution of the psychiatric hospital; includes index cards on "architectural goals"
Box 17 Folder 30
Dorsett, environment statement on location and provisions for children/adolescents at MH facilities - to appear in "Fundamental Principles" chapter [book?]
Box 17 Folder 31
Slide Show for APA Conference, May 12-15, 1970, San Francisco
Box 17 Folder 32
Dorsett,Hospital for the Insane of the Army & Navy and the District of Columbia(Handwritten notes)
Box 17 Folder 33
Folder entitled: "Kirkbride: Hospitals for the Insane" (history of); includes handwritten (lecture?) notes and copy extract (unidentified book), historic souvenir
Box 17 Folder 34
Matrix of Past Projects (Aborted attempt at organizing past project files. First page only filled in)
Box 17 Folder 35
Dorsett,Architectural Aspects of HALFWAY HOUSES for the mentally ill
Box 17 Folder 36
Dorsett, "A Responsive Environment: Two Designs in Better Care for the Mentally Impaired." (Originally labeled: Paper - A responsive Environ. NIMH/HSQB Contract)
Box 17 Folder 37
Dorsett, "CMHC and Architecture: The CMHC and its Total Environment" (Prepared for the Workshop on Primary Prevention, Nat. Council of CMHCs, Inc., 1977)
Box 17 Folder 38
Dorsett, Proposals (various)
Box 17 Folder 39
Folder entitled: "Eastern State Hospital, Knoxville, Tennessee" (history of); Letter enclosing photo of façade
Box 17 Folder 40
Study Trip to London (and Scotland?); Includes sketch
Box 17 Folder 41
Photos of the partners of Dorsett & Smyre (Dorsett's short-lived practice); includes small unidentified photograph of a project - presumably by the practice
Box 17 Folder 42
Photos entitled "Photos - Centers: Boston & Fla. [Florida?]"
Box 17 Folder 43
Dorsett, "Patterns of Abuse and Change in Facilities for Mental Health Services" (PIA Design and Planning of Psychiatric Facilities, 1978)
Box 17 Folder 44
History of Asylums, hospitals, institutions - 1855-1965
Oversized 01 Folder 5
Copy Edit: Ludwig and LaRue Jones (eds), Proceedings from two AIA/NIMH workshops entitled "Programming the Community Mental Health Center"
Box 17 Folder 45
Inpatient Regulations PHS Act - psychiatric inpatient unit
Box 17 Folder 46
Report of the Task Panel on Role of the Arts in Therapy and Environment, Submitted to President's Commission on Mental Health, Feb. 15, 1978
Box 17 Folder 47
Preliminary Report to the President from The President's Commission on Mental Health
Box 17 Folder 48
Dorsett as panel moderator at seminar conference: "Humanizing Ambulatory Care in the Hospital Setting" Massachusetts (June 7-8, 1973)
Box 17 Folder 49
Clyde Dorsett's (student?) sketch book
Box 17 Folder 50
Program and Architectural Relationship to Services ("Ohio" handwritten on top right hand corner of document)
Box 18 Folder 1
Inpatient Units: Architectural Directives(Dorsett's original bound sketch sheets). Includes space planning notes of AMI Gonzales Psy. Hospital, Louisiana
Box 18 Folder 2
PHS Act - Subpart of 42CFR, sect. 1602. Review of proposed regulations 8/5/77
Box 18 Folder 3
Dorsett's study of Moravian 18th C. hooded entrace to house, Salem, North Carolina
Box 18 Folder 4
Saint Mary's Hospital, McAuley Institute, San Francisco 17, California; includes Sister Mary de Paul's introductory notes
Box 18 Folder 5
Dorsett,The Community Mental Health Center Environments for Psychological Rehabilitation(Symposium Paper, 1991)
Box 18 Folder 6
Dorsett's methodological theory - State mental health program as a looped "cybernetic information system"
Box 18 Folder 7
Einstein Medical Center, Bronx, New York; includes Dorsett's diagrammatic studies in report
Box 18 Folder 8
Alcoholism Grants: Treatment and Rehabilitaion Grants; Comprehensive Community Services for Alcoholics (The Williamsburg Papers); 1963 Acts, etc.
This series comprises of miscellaneous reference materials by others (or by Dorsett and others) gathered by Dorsett over the course of his career, with most in some way relating to his professional life at the NIMH and beyond. These include books, journal articles, pamphlets, case studies, guidelines, legal documents, and standards. The series is arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 18 Folder 9
Albert Sabatini, M.D.,Designing A Functional Admitting Office: A Haven in a Storm(Paper concerning Emergency Services)
Box 18 Folder 10
Miscellaneous international academic research into psychiatric facilities / mental disorders: Europe/US (Bartlett, 1968), Beijing (Chinese Medical Journal, 1981), etc.
Box 18 Folder 11
Acreditation Manual for Psychiatric Facilities Serving Children and Adolescents(Chicago: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, 1974)
Box 18 Folder 12
Principles for Accreditation of Community Mental Health Service Programs(Chicago: Accreditation Council for Psychiatric Facilities, 1976)
Box 18 Folder 13
Adult Day Treatment
Box 18 Folder 14
Adolescent Inpatient
Box 18 Folder 15
Space planning guidelines from Wittenberg, Delony & Davidson, Architect/Engineering, Planning/Interior Design
Box 18 Folder 16
Acute Care Inpatient Unit, Crisis Stabilization Unit
Box 18 Folder 17
Considerations of Significance to Architects and Planners abstracted from NIMH Conferences on Environmental Variables as Determinates of MH
Box 18 Folder 18
Kahi Mohala Psychiatric Hospital, Honolulu (Originally filed adjacent to Hawaii State Hospital project)
Box 18 Folder 19
Article filed under "Forensic Psychology" by Dorsett: Robert Hughes, "Pictures at an Institution,"Time, January 23, 1978
Box 18 Folder 20
C.R. Shelton, "Designing Hospitals: Consumers Drive Architectural Trends,"New Jersey Healthcare, May-June 1989
Box 18 Folder 21
Lucy D. Ozarin, "Notes on the Development of Collaboration Between Architects and Clinicians,"Hospital and Community Psychiatry31 (4): 276-7
Box 18 Folder 22
"History, Mental Health" general file by Dorsett: Focuses upon history of various treatment environments (e.g. Bloomingdale Asylum)
Box 18 Folder 23
History of Mental Hospitals. Includes articles on "The Kirkbride Plan," "Dorethea Lynde Dix," and Mental Hospitals, Centennial Issue, 1955
Box 18 Folder 24
Planning, Programming, and Design for The Community Mental Health Center(vol. 1 of 3?), Western Inst. for Research in MH, Calif. (Sponsored by NIMH)
Box 18 Folder 25
Architecture for The Community Mental Health Center(vol. 2 of 3), Rice Design Fete III, School of Architecture, Rice University, TX (Sponsored by NIMH)
Box 18 Folder 26
Wallace McHarg Roberts and Todd,Temple University Health Sciences Center: Interim Report on the Long Range Development Plan(1967)
Box 18 Folder 27
Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1773-1885 (history of); Book and associated articles
Box 18 Folder 28
John Zeisel, "Sociology and Architectural Design,"Social Science Frontiers, 6 (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1975)
Box 18 Folder 29
Ridgeway Institute (Private Psychiatric Hospital - Brochure)
Box 18 Folder 30
Work of Charles Schorre (Rice U.), Dubose Gallery, Houston, Texas. Schorre possibly an acquantance of Dorsett viz. the Rice Fete of 1965
Box 18 Folder 31
Part II - Facilities for Mental Health Services(Canadian Building Standards and Guide Material for Hospitals and Health Facilities)
Box 18 Folder 32
Forensic Building, Institut Philippe Pinel de Montreal; Copy of plan with address
Box 18 Folder 33
Two articles from Abitare (Italian Design Magazine), dates uncertain
Box 18 Folder 34
Humphry Osmond, "Some Psychiatric Aspects of Design," from: Laurence B. Holland, Who Designs America? (Doubleday Anchor, 1966) booklet
Box 18 Folder 35
Student paper, U. of Munich, for a community residential model "Transitional Settings for Psychiatric Patients in a Town Sector" (history of, in German)
Box 18 Folder 36
Folder entitled: "Saskatchewan Plan" (history of)
Box 18 Folder 37
Arkansas State Hospital, history of (article)
Box 18 Folder 38
Photocopy ofFortune News(Oct. 1970), article on question of enlisting ex-cons to re-design prisons. (Originally in folder entitled: "Corrections")
Box 18 Folder 39
R. Bartholemew, "Mental Retardation: Educational Environments,"Man-Environment Systems6: 183-184, 1976
Box 18 Folder 40
Design Guidelines: Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded(Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1976)
Oversize 01 Folder 6
Carpentry details of John James Croft Jr., Architect, Asheboro, N.C.
Box 18 Folder 41
Folder entitled: "1946-1954: Gutterson-Ozarin, Hillburton Prog. 1950 pub" (history of)
Box 18 Folder 42
CEH, "Mentally Handicapped People Living in Ordinary Houses and Flats: Some Useful Information for Architects," July 1973
Box 18 Folder 43
"Architecture and Design of Treatment Environments,"Hospital & Community Psychiatry, November 1976 (American Psychiatric Association)
Box 18 Folder 44
Article by Lawrence R. Good,Hospital & Communtiy Psychiatry(name singled out by Dorsett in his filing) on the Wisconsin State Hospital
Box 18 Folder 45
George Means, Raymond Ackerman,Hospital & Community Psychiatry; Article on "South Carolina's Village System" (Dorsett's filing note)
Box 18 Folder 46
Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963, Title II, Public Law 88-164, Regulations (Dorsett highlights Appdx. A: General Standards of Construction and Equip.)
Box 18 Folder 47
New Technology Disclosure - management system by Boeing for NASA Saturn V project. From folder labeled "R.M. Jones" (Includes proposal for environ. quality center)
Oversized 01 Folder 7
Historical architecture, villages, furniture - articles and sketches
Box 18 Folder 48
Mahoning County Highway Map with catchment areas (I & II) delineated
Box 18 Folder 49
Rice Design Fete III - NIMH: Orientation Conference, Continental Hotel, Kansai City, Missouri, 15-17 March 1965
Box 18 Folder 50
Concepts and Challenges: The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center, NIMH (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare)
Box 18 Folder 51
A Citizen's Guide to the Community Mental Health Centers Act, NIMH (US Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare)
Box 19 Folder 1
NIMH Planning Aid Kit(Reprinted for the Session on Environmental Architecture and Psychiatry, 123rd Annual Meeting, SF, May 12, 1970)
Box 19 Folder 2
Rice Design Fete III- Small program for film show/conference on mental health, Rice University, 6 June 1965 to 18 June 1965
Box 19 Folder 3
4-sheet bibliography entitled: "Papers and Articles Available Through Architectural Consultation Section"
Box 19 Folder 4
Articles on converted isolation suites, physical therapy dept., and mental hospitals. Includes one photo of State Hospital, Illinois
Box 19 Folder 5
Lawrence R. Good, et al,Therapy by Design: Implications of Architecture for Human Behavior(Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1965)
Box 19 Folder 6
Raymond Glasscote, et al,The Community Mental Health Center: An Analysis of Existing Models(NAMH: Washington D.C., 1964)
Box 19 Folder 7
Matthew Dumont,The Absurd Healer: Perspectives of a Community Psychiatrist(New York: Science House, 1968)
Box 19 Folder 8
Action For Mental Health: Final Report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, 1961(New York: Science Editions, 1961)
Box 19 Folder 9
Charles F. Read Zone Center, Chicago, Illinois ; includes John P. Ready's earlier concepts of "Zone Mental Health Centers" (1964)
Box 19 Folder 10
"CMHC Project Kit" (as stated on original folder). OR IS IT "Ket" (Kentucky?)
Box 19 Folder 11
Public Health Service Regulations - Part 53: Pertaining to the Constructin and Modernization of Hospital and Medical Facilities
Box 19 Folder 12
Regulations for P.L. 88-164 Mental Health Center Construction Projects (various)
Box 19 Folder 13
Accreditation Manual for Psychiatric Facilities1972(Chicago: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, 1972)
Box 19 Folder 14
NASMHPD (National Assoc. State Mental Health Program Directors) Studies - various.
Box 19 Folder 15
I. Jakab,Environmental Impact on Disturbed Mentally Retarded Children(Toronto: APA, 982). Contains note: "Clyde, from Lucy O. At APA meeting Toronto"
Box 19 Folder 16
Various articles by others on suicide in mental health facilities
Box 19 Folder 17
Survey Questionnaire: Accreditation Council for Psychiatric Facilities(Chicago: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, 1972)
Box 19 Folder 18
Karl Joachim Habermann,Bautypologische Entwicklungslinien des psychiatrischen Krankenhauses(Technischen Universitat Munchen, 1977)
Box 19 Folder 19
Report of Visit to Hudson River State Hospital, Poughkeepsie, New York, January 31, 1964
Box 19 Folder 20
Includes visits to Menninger Foundation; Agnews State Hospital, CA; Fort Logan, CO; Topeka State Hospital
This series, the shortest, comprise generally of work and personal miscellany conducted outside of his life at the NIMH and later consulting life. It includes student work, referral letters, certificates, awards, and various ephemera. The series is arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 19 Folder 21
Dorsett's early working career charted through referral letters - as preserved by Dorsett
Box 19 Folder 22
Biographical Sketches of Dorsett; Profile of his "experience in residential environments for the mentally handicapped"
Box 19 Folder 23
Box 19 Folder 24
Box 19 Folder 25
Box 19 Folder 26
Miscellaneous ephemera ; includes citation certificate and special achievement award (1977) in honor of Dorsett
Box 19 Folder 27
Dorsett. Class notes on hospital design modules. 'Hospitals and Public Health Facilities Planning and Design' program, Columbia University
Box 19 Folder 28
Dorsett as a student draftsman: Referral letter from Louis E. Jallade, Architects and Engineers, Dec. 31, 1952
Box 19 Folder 29
Dorsett,Backgrown [sic] of our Democracy. (Bound, handwritten and illustrated school history essay, May 1, 1942)
Box 19 Folder 30
Dorsett: 2 student papers from the "Hospital and Public Health Facilities Planning and Design" program, Columbia University
Box 19 Folder 31
Miscellaneous photographs of student work: catenary models/studies, construction projects, etc.; newspaper article on Raleigh catenary arch. of early 50s
Roll A092M.08a
Fuller Research Project: Experimental Greenhouse (School of Design, North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C., January - March 1953)
Drawer X Folder 204
Dorsett "A Low Cost Housing Redevelopment", Student Project at North Carolina State College (Panel 6 of 8 missing)
Box 20 Folder 1
Dorsett,A Housing Study(4th Year student design study?).
Box 20 Folder 2
Dorsett: Catenary Studies (as student with Buckminster Fuller?)
Box 20 Folder 3
Dorsett et al., "A Study for the development of Kings County Medical Center," 'Hospitals and Public Health Facilities Planning and Design' program, Columbia University.
Box 20 Folder 4
Dorsett, "The Investigation of a Nursing Unit" (presumably for) 'Hospitals and Public Health Facilities Planning and Design' program, Columbia University
Box 20 Folder 5
Dorsett, "Marriage of Sculpture to Architecture." (Student essay)
Box 20 Folder 6
Requests for training, certification and accreditation issues. (Includes plan scheme of hospital by Dorsett while a student at Columbia, 1963)