Resources

This page is a work in progress.

Fairview Histories

Beyond Fariview: An Oregon Story of Supporting Inclusive Community Living, a timeline of Fairview 1907 - 2018, pdf image by OHSU.

Away From Public Gaze: A History of the Fairview Training Center and the Institutionalization of People with Developmental Disabilities in Oregon, Philip M. Ferguson, Ph.D., Chapman University, Dianne L. Ferguson, Ph.D., Teaching Research Institute Western Oregon University & Chapman University, Meredith M. Brodsky, Ph.D., Teaching Research Institute Western Oregon University, February 2008.

Wikipedia Fairview Training Center Index: Fairview Training Center

Fairview Training Center: History in the Making, Oregon Human Resources, Revised July, 1993.

Oregon History: In the Shadow of Fairview, Oregon Public Broadcasting. (2020, November 16).

Dark Time in Oregon’s History, That Oregon Life. (2021, September).

Episode 8: Fariview Training Center History and Treatments, Behind the Walls of the World's Psychiatric Hospitals by Dr Sarah Gallup (February 2023, podcast)

Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health

archive of posts and information about Fairview on the OSH Museum website.

Fariview Produces Own History, circa 1990s

In Our Care [Film], Oregon Board of Control. (1959). YouTube via the Oregonian, 2007.

1959 - 1968 Board of Control Records Fairview Hospital and Training Center - pdf

Artists and Projects

About Russell Childers, Willamette University

Oregon State Hospital Cremains Memorial, Oregon Health Authority

Video excerpt from In the Shadow of Fairview: Unclaimed Remains Finally Coming Home, Oregon Public Broadcasting and Oregon Experience, July 2020

inVisible 2015 - 2016, a series of actions, a contemplation on...Fairview Training Center 15 years after, Shar Fagerston and Outpost1000

Conceal/Reveal, Video: Shar Fagerston, a slight performance to summon the memory of Fairview Training Center, at ArtWorks (CEI) Gallery, Corvallis, 2015.

Voices From Home 2023 (Corvallis Arts Center) and 1998 (Louisville Visual Arts Association), installations and conversations about residential home life.

In Your House...A Door, by OUTPOST1000, ArtWorks (CEI), and Poptart, Artist Zachary Gough asked artists at OSLP Arts & Culture (Eugene OR) and Latitude Arts (Lexington KY) to describe their Dream House. Artist Ruth Van Order constructs an intuitive rendering of Fariview Training Center.

Finding Molly Daly, A Film by Jeff Daly, whose sister, Molly was institutionalized at Fairview.

The Fairview Album, The Oregon Clarion, Volume 6, Number 2, April 2000.

News and Articles

Farewell Fairview: Oregon's Largest Institution is Closed for Good, The Oregon Clarion, Vol 6, number 3, April 2000

Sara Gelser, Erasing Fairview's Horrors, The Oregonian, Jan 30, 2010.

What Happened to the Old Fairview Training Site?

Planners May Hand Off Fairview, Pringle Creek Community News. Originally published by the Statesman Journal, Michael Rose, August 20, 2005.