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FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- For 119 years, the Fergus Falls State Hospital was home to thousands of patients with physical and mental disabilities. As one of the largest of its kind in the country, the ...
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- For more than a century, the Fergus Falls State Hospital served mentally ill patients from across the state. It closed 16 years ago, ...
During tours he gives of the former Fergus Falls State Hospital, like this one on Sept. 30, 2011, Chris Schuelke relates some of the darker tales to emerge from the Gothic edifice that once ...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital quickly became overcrowded, even though it had been intended to solve overcrowding problems. Patients could be admitted voluntarily but many were sent by court order.
The Fergus Falls State Hospital opened in 1890, and was one of the last “Kirkbride” buildings built in the United States.
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- Not long after the Fergus Falls State Hospital opened in the summer of 1890, a local newspaper reporter took a tour of the place.
The hospital, commonly known as “The… A new theater production aims to help residents of Fergus Falls reflect on their past even as they move into the future.
RELATED: The musical mission behind a Fergus Falls' abandoned hospital One of the workers who escaped later told a reporter that just as they scrambled to safety, the concrete dam collapsed into ...
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (Valley News Live) - One woman is in the hospital and authorities are investigating after a vehicle smashed into the pool area of a hotel. Authorities say it happened around 8 ...
In this pivotal episode of General Hospital, originally aired in May 2024, Alexis Davis confronts Neil’s brother, Fergus Byrne, in an intense courtroom battle to reclaim her legal career.
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (WCCO) - For more than a century, the Fergus Falls State Hospital served mentally ill patients from across the state. It closed 16 years ago, and the hospital remains abandoned ...