[Genealib] Re: TB Treatment near Fergus Falls, Minnesota

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This is a good possibility see _http://www.fergusphotos.com/rtc/_ 
(http://www.fergusphotos.com/rtc/)  and 
_http://www.placeography.org/index.php/Fergus_Falls_State_Hospital,_1400_Union_Avenue_North,_Fergus_Falls,_Minnesota_ 
(http://www.placeography.org/index.php/Fergus_Falls_State_Hospital,_1400_Union_A
venue_North,_Fergus_Falls,_Minnesota) .  
 
There was also the Minnesota Sanitorium for Consumptives near  Walker, MN, 
its primary purpose was to treat cases of tuberculosis, see 
_http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/07/26_straumanisa_agcsidebar/_ 
(http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/07/26_straumanisa_agcsidebar/) 
 
Deborah  Bruno
San Diego
 

Landmark has vital link with  history
(Editor's note: this  is the second in a two-part series on the state of 
the RTC.)

Fergus Falls, Minnesota
Monday, December  22, 2003 
By _Lucien Holmes_ (mailto:lucien.holmes at fergusfallsjournal.com) 

The  Regional Treatment Center is an imposing complex, sitting on about 70 
acres of  land, with buildings that occupy nearly 900,000 square feet. But 
the Fergus  Falls landmark, so linked to the city's past, faces an uncertain 
future. The  state has declared it surplus property, and the city is looking 
for proposals  from developers.

Fergus Falls Heritage Preservation Commission member  Wayne Hurley said 
those buildings are important to the commission.

"Being  on the National Register of Historic Places doesn't guarantee 
anything," Hurley  said. "What gets done to the property is up to the owner."

"Fergus Falls  fought so hard to get it in the 1880s. There were two state 
hospitals before the  Kirkbride, and when ours was built, it was state of 
the art," said  Hurley.

Indeed, it was one of the last ever built by architect Thomas  Kirkbride 
and reformer Dorothy Dix. They collaborated on building many of these  
hospitals, whose long windows and surrounding fields were intended to promote  
healing in the mentally ill.

City Planner Gordon Hydukovich said the  building was much more than a 
mental institution. Residents included tuberculosis  patients, the chemically 
dependent, and even women suffering from  menopause.

"It was once a self-sufficient community: they farmed and  cooked and kept 
the grounds," said Hydukovich.

Communities in New York,  Massachusetts, and Michigan have rallied to save 
their hospitals when the state  no longer found them viable, Hurley said.

"There are people who would say  you need to fight just as hard to keep it 
viable, that you need to look at it as  an asset, not a problem," said 
Hurley.

Hydukovich is one of those  people.

"Landmarks are important. They give us a sense of identity," he  said.

He points to a developer working with a Kirkbride structure in  Traverse 
City, Mich. That developer has begun a "mixed-use" project.

Like  the Michigan property, the Fergus Falls RTC is tentatively zoned for 
a mix of  industry, commercial, and residential use. The residential zones 
are on the  edges and act as a buffer from the tower complex in the middle 
and the industry  to the northwest.

As Hydukovich said, this should preserve neighborhoods  and be attractive 
to potential developers, even though the site is  "geographically further out 
[than Traverse City] -- not on the edge of Battle  Lake, not next to the 
Cities in Anoka."

The commission makes  recommendations to the city on preservation of 
significant buildings or land.  Attorney Kent Mattson, who has been hired by the 
city to deal with proposals  from developers, said that the city is in the 
middle of a long process. He said  there will be plenty of opportunity for 
local input.

 
 
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