[1] The facility has its origins in a home for imbecile children established by Sir John and Lady Jane Ogilvy; it was designed by Coe & Goodwin[2] and opened as the Baldovan Institute in around 1855.

[3] The present structure was designed by John Turnbull Maclaren and completed in the early 20th century.

[3] After joining the National Health Service in 1948, it was renamed Strathmartine Hospital in 1959.

[3] It was progressively decommissioned from the late 1980s, closing completely in 2003.

[5] In 2014 Heritage Lottery Funding was awarded to a project for people to record their memories of the hospital.