New Haven · New Haven County. The center opened in 1966 as a state–Yale partnership in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood. Its urban community setting represents a different institutional model from the large state hospital campus. The building archive records an addition in 1992.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Classification: Community mental health center, research and teaching institution. Earlier use: Residential houses occupied the site before the purpose-built center, according to Yale’s building archive. Foundation and Yale sources agree. Label it a community mental health center, not a nineteenth-century asylum. Building photographs are reference links; an open reuse license was not identified.
Source: Connecticut Mental Health Center Foundation; About CMHC
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Silent Grounds Collective, Historic Mental Health Institutions, SGC-MI-014, MI-005, “Connecticut Mental Health Center.” Source: Connecticut Mental Health Center Foundation; About CMHC. https://cmhcfoundation.org/about-us/about-cmhc. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.