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 ...

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. In an article titled "Among the Lunatics ...

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, ...

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. The hospital had a ...

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. This week, demolition ...

Chris Schuelke tells us the history of the Fergus Falls State Hospital. Opening in 1890 The Fergus Falls State Hospital was the first state mental institution in Minnesota to formally adopt a ...

In this week's Finding Minnesota, John Lauritsen shows us why the Broken Down Dam brings in visitors from across the state ... mission behind a Fergus Falls' abandoned hospital One of the workers ...