Mont Park Asylum, Melbourne
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Mont Park Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Melbourne, Australia. It was closed in the late-1990s. Located on a huge area of land, Mont Park was built during the government policies of institutionalisation of the mentally ill and insane in the early 20th century. The complex was served by the freight only Mont Park railway branch line.
The empty land was used for the establishment of La Trobe University in the 1960's. It is now the site of Springthorpe Housing Development. Part of old patient hospital was taken over by La Trobe University for the Graduate School of Management/Business.
Mont Park was closely linked with Plenty Valley Repatriation Psychiatric Hospital and Larundal Psychiatric Hospital, both closed in the late 1990's, and the sites are being redeveloped.
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