Nearly 200 miles northwest of the Twin Cities, a forgotten part of Minnesota history rises from among the lakes of Otter Tail County. Holding Type: Photographs Identifiers: MO8.9 FF7.2 r2 (Locator Number) YR1927.3993 (Accession Number) 534 (Negative Number) Minnesota Historical Society. Consequently the Legislature of 1885 passed an act to establish a commission to locate a third hospital for the insane and prepare plans for its construction. The hospital's long-vacant buildings and lonely, sprawling grounds appear at once imposing and more than a little spooky, even with a late-autumn sun still high in the sky. 1958), occupational therapy activities (1953, 1967), and Boy Scout Troop 310 (ca. But McIntyre missed his intended target, striking instead a man named William Cosgrove, who was sitting in a nearby chair. A populist who used terms like "usurious plunderers" when describing financial institutions, Hoskins may have sealed his own fate when he urged people to withdraw their money from banks. It is not a film for the youngsters. As soon as the institution was ready for patients the Board of Trustees divided the state into three hospital districts. Fergus Falls State Hospital - National Park Service State Hospital for the Insane, Fergus Falls : Collections Online : mnhs.org Hotel Kaddatz, 111-113 W. Lincoln Ave, Fergus Falls, 1983 Built to relieve overcrowding at Minnesota's mental - MinnPost The act was approved by the Governor, Lucius F. Hubbard, on March 2, and shortly afterwards he appointed R. B. Langdon, of Minneapolis; C. K. Bartlett, superintendent of the St. Peter Hospital; H. H. Hart, of St. Paul, secretary of the Board By G. O. Welch, M. D., superintendent of Corrections and Charities; H. G. Stordeck, of Breckenridge, and F. S. Christensen, of Rush City, as members of the commission. Randolph County Infirmary Featured as Fergus Falls State Hospital in Bones and All, BY SCOTT SHAFFER, LICENSORS PROVIDE THE LICENSED SITE AND LICENSED CONTENT ON AN AS IS, AS AVAILABLE BASIS. Thank you for reading! What time also did was turn many of these once active and most often overcrowded facilities into nothing but ruins. The cost to build it was $1,750.00. The rest of them were there because they were too much of a burden for their families, however mostly they were poor and ended up staying institutionalized for life. Fergus Falls, MN - Closed Insane Asylum - RoadsideAmerica.com From its opening in July 1890 to its closing in 2007, it dominated the economic, social and cultural fabric of theregion. More Danvers State Hospital Cameo11 May 2018 -- I was surprised to catch a cameo by the Danvers State Hospital Kirkbride in an old episode of Unsolved Mysteries the other night. The Fergus Falls State Hospital was a 120-acre property featuring a large complex of buildings that were constructed for the purpose of treating the mentally ill. The state hospital was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 and was closed in 2007. Known as a strong and compassionate leader, Patterson was said to have been on a first-name basis with every patient.