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Resources
This page is a work in progress.
Fairview Histories
Wikipedia Fairview Training Center Index: Fairview Training Center
Fairview Training Center: History in the Making, Oregon Human Resources, Revised July, 1993.
The Institution: In the Shadow of Fairview, Oregon Experience, Season 15, Episode 1, PBS.org
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
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.
Where's Molly: A True Story of Those Lost and Found, A Film by Jeff Daly, whose sister, Molly was institutionalized at Fairview at age 3.
The Fairview Album, The Oregon Clarion, Volume 6, Number 2, April 2000.
Unpacking the Fairview Training Center, Hannah Krafcik, orartswatch.org, June 4, 2025.
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?
He Died at a School for the Disabled. Decades Later His Brother Sought Answers. Story by Sonia Rao for The New York Times. link to NYT