In the News

Below is just a sampling of the many news articles written over the years highlighting the fight to save the Fergus Falls Kirkbride campus.

Fate of Fergus Falls hospital splits community (MPR News, March 8, 2018)
Can the Kirkbride be Saved (High Plains Reader, February 28, 2018)
Can the Castle on the Hill be Saved (High Plains Reader, February 28, 2018)
Citizens Speak for the Kirkbride (NDSU Spectrum, February 26, 2018)
End could be near for historic Fergus Falls state mental hospital (StarTribune, January 20, 2018)
Giving up on reuse, Fergus Falls moves to demolish old state mental hospital (Pioneer Press, January 17, 2018)
Stories that Stay With You (High Plains Reader, September 14, 2016)
Midwest Traveler: Fergus Falls blends nature, nostalgia (StarTribune, June 24, 2016)
Goin’ to the (Frozen) Lake: Fergus Falls (WCCO, February 4, 2016)
Beauty as Therapy (High Plains Reader, September 9, 2015)
Former Fergus Falls asylum searching for developer (MPR News, July 22, 2015)
Fergus Falls vacant Kirkbride hospital to be redeveloped (MPR News, June 13, 2013)
Fans plan to hug historic Minn. mental hospital (MPR News, July 14, 2012)

 

Below is just a sampling of the many news articles written over the years highlighting the work done by organizations and businesses that benefit from the Kirkbride campus.

Fergus Falls strives to become national model with its thriving rural arts scene (StarTribune, September 3, 2017)
Minnesota arts groups nab $4.4 million from National Endowment for the Arts (StarTribune, June 14, 2017)