Westport · Fairfield County. Dr. David Walter McFarland’s private institution treated mental illness and addiction. Hall-Brooke was its successor. The current Shores service at 47 Long Lots Road remains a psychiatric-care campus within St. Vincent’s Medical Center.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Classification: Private psychiatric institution with continuing psychiatric campus. Earlier use: Early pre-sanitarium property use was not established. Replacement hospital construction superseded older campus buildings. Institution and continuity verified; exact renaming dates unresolved. The museum’s date arithmetic is inconsistent; its explicit 1898 date should be described as reported. Do not repeat the museum’s misleading trauma-center characterization of the Westport psychiatric campus.
Source: Westport Museum for History & Culture / Virtual History Westport; Sanitariums of Westport
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Silent Grounds Collective, Historic Mental Health Institutions, SGC-MI-014, MI-003, “Hall-Brooke Hospital / McFarland’s Sanitarium.” Source: Westport Museum for History & Culture / Virtual History Westport; Sanitariums of Westport. https://virtualhistorywestport.org/exhibits/cure/sanitariums/. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.