page_title: Fairfield Hills Hospital
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Fairfield Hills Hospital / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: The Fairfield State Hospital is a huge place that was built 1933 to house the insane patients overflowing from two other state hospitals in Connecticut. The place is as big as a Ive League School. I am not sure but it must be over a hundred acres and dozens of buildings and houses. (map) Most of the buildings there have these white belfrys all over the place. From a distance the place looks nice and quaint. From close up the buildings look like a nightmare of an insane asylum. The hospital is closed but the grounds are open to the public and there are sports fields and good places to fly kites. I was disappointed at this trip. It was overcast and the light was pretty plain. I hope to go back sometime soon.
context_page_description: Fairfield State Hospital or Fairfield Hills Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Newtown, Connecticut, which operated from 1931 until 1995. At its peak, the hospital housed over 4,000 patients. The entire facility was owned and operated by the State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health. The facility still stands, just southeast of the center of Newtown.
context_section_description: The following are the main campus buildings of Fairfield Hills. With the exception of Cochran House, they were named after Fairfield and Litchfield County cities and towns.
caption: The main building
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