St. Peter State Hospital Museum, July 24, 2020. The building served as the administrative center of the Minnesota Hospital of the Insane between 1866 and 1893, at which point the institution was renamed St. Peter State Hospital. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Myotus, July 24, 2020. CC BY-SA 4.0

Aerial view of St Peter State Hospital (St. Peter, Minnesota), April 13, 1954. Photo by the Minneapolis Star Journal–Tribune.

Industrial therapist Edmund Sandeen presents a St. Peter State Hospital display that tells the story of the institution’s industrial therapy program, ca. 1950.

St. Peter State Hospital (St. Peter, Minnesota), ca. 1950.

Employees of the St. Peter State Hospital (St. Peter, Minnesota) cutting ice on the Minnesota River, next to the hospital, January 1940.

Bakery inside St. Peter State Hospital (St. Peter, Minnesota), ca. 1938.

The ironing room in St. Peter State Hospital (St. Peter, Minnesota), ca. 1938.

Corridor inside St. Peter State Hospital (St. Peter, Minnesota), showing barred cell doors and windows, ca. 1938.

Sheep grazing on the grounds of St. Peter State Hospital (St. Peter, Minnesota), ca. 1925. Its name had changed from the Minnesota State Hospital for the Insane in 1893.

The greenhouse at the St. Peter State Hospital (St. Peter, Minnesota), ca. 1925.