State Hospital at 3400 Lincoln Ave. In 1883 the Indiana legislature appropriated funds to purchase a large amount of heavily wooded property that was 3 miles outside of the city limits at the time, and the Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, aka Woodmere Hospital, admitted its first patients in 1890. At one time the facility was nearly entirely self-sufficient, raising its own crops and even having a dairy herd. In 1927 it was renamed the Evansville State Hospital. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1943. All the buildings were razed by 2008. In 2003 a new modern facility opened at this location. Although much of the land was sold off, the hospital still has quite a bit of acreage and is regularly used for recreational purposes. This is believed to be what was the administration building.