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The Traverse City State Hospital, also known at various points as the Northern Michigan Asylum and the Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital, is a decommissioned psychiatric hospital in Traverse City, Michigan. Established in 1881 by James Decker Munson and Perry Hannah, the hospital was in
English: The old Traverse City State Hospital (now the Village at Grand Traverse Commons) in Traverse City, Michigan consists of a series of Kirkbride-style light cream-colored brick pavilions arranged in a zig-zagging pointing arrangement that falls back from the central pavilion, which was rebuilt in the 1960s in a modernist style that ...
Traverse City: The Northern Michigan Asylum, also known as the Traverse City State Hospital and Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital, was established in 1881. Under the supervision of prominent architect Gordon W. Lloyd, the first building, known as Building 50, was constructed in Victorian-Italianate style according to the Kirkbride ...
Traverse City State Hospital in Traverse City, Michigan, U.S., in operation from 1881 to 1989. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz in Hungary has argued that psychiatric hospitals are like prisons unlike other kinds of hospitals, and that psychiatrists who coerce people (into treatment or involuntary commitment) function as judges and jailers, not ...
Many hospitals/prisons have been referred to as "Michigan State Asylum". There were once 16 State-operated psychiatric facilities in Michigan. Between 1987 and 2003 Michigan closed three quarters of its 16 state psychiatric facilities. Here is a partial list. Traverse City State Hospital in Traverse City - Northern Michigan Asylum
Munson was the first superintendent of the state-owned Northern Michigan Asylum founded in 1885 (later known as Traverse City Psychiatric Hospital, which closed in 1989). He donated a boarding house for use as a community hospital in 1915.
Aug. 20—TRAVERSE CITY — A hero lives on West Eighth Street. Lorraine Hamilton has kept her chin up, her focus sharp, whether facing a threat to the maple trees in her neighborhood or the ...
The stream then enters Traverse City, flowing north through the Grand Traverse Commons Natural Area, which is property that was previously operated as part of the Traverse City State Hospital. Crossing under Seventh Street, the stream enters the eponymous Kids Creek neighborhood of Traverse City.