The Victor Cullen Center is located in a rural area outside
of Sabillasville, in Frederick County. The facility, originally named The Hilltop
State Hospital, was built in 1907. It was the first state funded tuberculosis
sanatorium in Maryland. It later became a State hospital and in 1965 became a
reform school for boys. In 1967 the Cullen Academy was transferred and placed
under the direction of Maryland’s Juvenile Services. The site contains approximately
500 acres. Most of the 30 buildings are within a security fence. The administration
building is just inside the fence, with residential cottages along a loop drive
farther from the gate. A gymnasium and modular school building are near the center
of the campus. The administration building, the Cullen Building, was constructed
in 1946. When last occupied by Juvenile Services, it housed offices on the first
level, as well as a kitchen and dining facility in a wing that was added in 1955.
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