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Leong, Ken

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Leong, Ken

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Ken Leong is an architect.

Callan Park Mental Hospital as Author

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Callan Park Mental Hospital

Developed on the Garryowen estate built by John Brenan from the 1830s, Callan Park hospital was designed to treat insanity by the most modern methods available when it opened in 1884. During the twentieth century, overcrowding and ad hoc additions diluted the original intent and design, and by the 1960s the hospital was a place of squalor. The buildings are now used for other purposes.