In Newtown, Connecticut stands the ruins of a stately psychiatric hospital. The Fairfield Hills State Hospital opened in 1931, with brick Georgian style buildings spread across 770 bucolic acres.

NEWTOWN — The creation of the state’s newest federal historic district at the Fairfield Hills campus not only preserves the rise and fall of Connecticut’s last psychiatric hospital as a ...

Legend states the girl, dressed in a white gown, stares out of the window of the Fairfield Hills State Hospital in Newtown, Connecticut. The hospital is a derelict psychiatric asylum where tales ...

NEWTOWN – A two-decade-old vision came closer to fruition this fall when the former state psychiatric hospital Fairfield Hills was declared a historic federal district, qualifying the empty ...

Connecticut Valley Hospital is over 100 years old ... Connecticut Valley, Norwich State, and Fairfield Hills Hospitals all had beautiful campus property. To a visitor, it seems those inside ...

There is something hiding in Connecticut, specifically in Newtown and Derby. One place that has gathered ample attention is the Fairfield Hills State Hospital that once resided in Newtown. Opened in ...

A packed house of more than 100 people attended a screening of a new documentary, “Dorothea’s Tears,” about the impact of the closing of hundreds of state mental hospitals during the ...