The Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, Formerly The Rochester State Hospital: Home of Many Famous Incarcerated Celebrities. And I Used To Live Across The Street From It.

The Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, Formerly The Rochester State Hospital: Home of Many Famous Incarcerated Celebrities. And I Used To Live Across The Street From It.

It's been the home away from home for televangelist Jim Bakker, perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, Sotheby's chairman A. Alfred Taubman, and may soon be the home of Bernie Madoff. Up the road 100 miles or so from where ex-Enron CEO Jeff Skilling spends his time these days. 

When we lived there in the late seventies it was still the Rochester State Hospital. And yes, we literally lived across the street, in the Edelweiss Apartments. Those old state hospitals have a lot of mysterious history.