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Former mental hospital, now disused. Designed by the Aberdeen architect, Alexander Marshall Mackenzie (1848-1933) and opened in 1904 as the District Asylum for Aberdeen, with 261 patients. It was the first mental hospital in Scotland to be designed on a village system, with self-contained villas, administrative and medical blocks. It was also one of the first asylums to abandon an enclosing wall. At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 Kingseat was requisitioned by the Admiralty and from then until 28 February 1946 it functioned as a Naval Auxiliary Hospital. It closed in 1994. Now being converted to housing. While in use as a hospital, some of the local farms supplied it with food, including Kingseat (NJ91NW0170). Buildings included a recreation hall (NJ91NW0300).
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