The city has a green with several old churches and some fine elms, a public library, a hospital, a state armoury and a county children's home.
The city has a Carnegie library, a municipal hospital, an aged women's home and a children's home.
Among its institutions are the Ferguson Library (1882; with 16,000 volumes in 1909), several private schools, a Y.M.C.A., the Stamford Hospital (private, 1893), two private sanatoria, the Convent of our Lady of Lourdes, St John's Church House, a day nursery (1902), with dispensary and kindergarten, and the Stamford Children's Home (1895).
A children's home at Sioux Falls is partly under state control.
The general offices and the hospital (1902) of the Michigan Children's Home Society are here.
