Fergus Falls	Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center	A wonderful old Kirkbride-style asylum, built from 1888 to 1899, recommended by Love: "Looking back at its first five and a half years in operation, the Fergus Falls Weekly Journal proclaimed, 'No State in the union has provided more generously to its wards and unfortunates than Minnesota...Of the fifteen or more public institutions in the state, the greatest, the most complete, the most perfectly constructed, is the state hospital for the insane in Fergus Falls...The hospital here is a model institution..." Intertwined with host community, both city and asylum swelled with local pride. Built to treat mental deficiencies, the state hospital was welcomed by the city as an economic opportunity. Unique among Minnesota institutions in its planning and construction, it existed within an American system already 140 institutions strong by 1880. Influenced by them, along with its own geography, the hospital represents a blending of major treatment and architectural issues within a local construct."
Hinckley	The Hinckley Fire Museum A Comtesse Travelogue!	A look at my trip to the Hinckley Fire Museum, which commemorates the 1894 inferno which took the lives of more than 400 people.
Minneapolis	The Museum Of Questionable Medical Devices	Unfortunately, the museum no longer exists (except for a small display at the Science Museum Of Minnesota).
St. Paul	Fort Snelling	e. suggests this site for its display of old-time medical tools and procedures. The fact that it is a nice old military fort makes it pretty interesting on the morbid scale as well.

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