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, and the hospital remains abandoned - but ...

Former Fergus Falls State Hospital source of many legends Take a look back at these stories of the hospital provided by the Otter Tail County Historical Society, in an article first published in 2011.

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.

When the Fergus Falls State Hospital opened its doors on July 29, 1890, it became the first state institution in northern Minnesota for patients then considered insane.

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- Even before the stroke of Gov. Mark Dayton's pen on the state bonding bill, demolition is underway at a sprawling historic state hospital campus here.

The state hospital in Fergus Falls is one of the few remaining examples of Kirkbride-inspired architecture left in the United States. For over 117 years, the hospital was a cultural, economic icon ...

Fergus Falls, Minn., turned a sprawling former mental hospital into the focal point of its efforts at renewal using a state-funded embrace of artists and the arts.

A new theater production aims to help residents of Fergus Falls reflect on their past even as they move into the future. This Saturday, PlaceBase Productions is presenting “The Kirkbride Cycle ...

The Fergus Falls State Hospital became Minnesota’s first multi-purpose regional center. That meant that it served patients based on where they lived, rather than what services they needed.

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.