The Mansfield State Training School and Hospital Museum

The Mansfield State Training School and Hospital Museum Mansfield Training School and Hospital was a state run facility which provided institutionalized care and education for the developmentally disabled.

The Mansfield Training School was a state run facility to care for and educate the mentally and developmentally disabled. One of dozens of such institutions which sprang up over New England, MTS was initially founded to segregate clients who were mentally re****ed, epileptic, or deemed mentally aberrant from the rest of the society. It was not, however, an asylum for the criminally insane. For 76

years, MTS cared for its clients, peaking with a population over 2000. However, amid reports of staff abuse, a crushing Department of Justice report outlining negligent care, and a federal lawsuit, State of Connecticut was forced to close the facility in April 1993.

I have ten vinyl copies of the Mansfield Training School Blind Chorus and Band for sale on ebay for twenty-five dollars....
12/10/2018

I have ten vinyl copies of the Mansfield Training School Blind Chorus and Band for sale on ebay for twenty-five dollars.

If you would like a copy, send me a message, and I will cut the price in half. All the albums are in plastic, never opened, and were recovered from boxes of materials thrown out after the school closed in 1993.

Boys Playground at MSTS circa 1928
09/05/2018

Boys Playground at MSTS circa 1928

03/22/2018
July 2, 1913 Original Handwritten Notes from the Board of Trustees' meeting at the Connecticut School for Imbeciles. Mor...
03/31/2017

July 2, 1913 Original Handwritten Notes from the Board of Trustees' meeting at the Connecticut School for Imbeciles. More coming.

Not seasonal, but the former site of the school's morgue.
11/18/2016

Not seasonal, but the former site of the school's morgue.

11/18/2016
Tredgold Hall was the first Girls’ Side residence hall constructed as part of the newly founded Mansfield Training Schoo...
11/16/2016

Tredgold Hall was the first Girls’ Side residence hall constructed as part of the newly founded Mansfield Training School. This 60 bed dormitory was contracted in 1919 and opened a year later, alleviating the pressure of an overcrowded campus
The architectural design of Tredgold was identical to dormitories located on the Boys’ Side, the signature two-story, cross plan centered around a central ventilation. It was named after Alfred F. Tredgold, a pioneering researcher in the care and treatment for the mentally deficient.

Tredgold housed female clients and later became somewhat of a legacy residence hall, serving older, ambulatory female clients.

In July 1971, superintendent Francis P. Kelly closed Tredgold Hall, transferring clients to newly constructed resident dormitories.

Summer in Mansfield.
11/14/2016

Summer in Mansfield.

Early Spring 2013
11/14/2016

Early Spring 2013

Fall 2014
11/14/2016

Fall 2014

A Photographic Tour of Knight Hospital through the Seasons
11/12/2016

A Photographic Tour of Knight Hospital through the Seasons

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