Storehouse, State Lunatic Asylum

Built in 1890 on the grounds of Georgia's State Lunatic Asylum, now Central State Hospital, this brick storehouse sits on a triangular tract at Broad Street and Lawrence Road near Milledgeville. It was erected when a new railroad connecting the asylum with the Milledgeville depots made it possible to unload supplies directly on the grounds instead of storing them in the cellars of the main building. The Legislature appropriated $3,000, and because no bid covered the whole job, the asylum used materials on hand and its own carpenters. Asylum engineer T. H. DeSaussure supplied the plan, and J. W. McMillan did the brickwork. The one-story building has a basement, brick pilasters, wood brackets, a wooden bargeboard on the north gable, and curved lintels carved with star and lyre motifs. Its bell-cast gable roof rests on wood trusses. Its playful detail contrasts with the plainer hospital buildings, and it is valued as a railroad-related building. The east half once held a pharmacy and is now offices.