1,062 Comments for Ypsilanti State Hospital

Beautiful!

cool shot senor motts.

Interesting tile work. Look at the different lines along the far wall. Hard to tell if they're caused by odd lighting or if it's from the geometry of the wall. Excellent photo. Something about the loneliness and chaos of decay, or the ghostly quality of abandonment... I can't get enough of this type of photography

Good one

I'm OK, Your OK

Wow, it looks like city 17. Most gamers would understand.

I was a resident in the adolscent unit at the far right of thebuilding in 1988.

A Bldg was torn down first, the view here is from where A Bldg was facing B block entrance.

I am aware of the situation kim mentioned at Jackson prison. In mental health restraints are used to protect a patient from self harm. Some people in the Dept of Corrections use it ,as in this case, to be punitive and the officers refused the nurse adequate access to the 'prisoner'. The people fired over this were the nurse and a secretary who was off and failed to forward the psych referal because she wasn't there. DOC has no business restraining people.

That auditorium was filled with cusioned theater seats. There were many great productions put on for staff and patients by a combination of staff and patients. It was a great motivator to stay out of trouble so you could be in the show. The backstage area had dressing rooms and costume areas. Before Ypsi closed it was in great condition for an old building. The floors were polished the bathrooms clean and it had nice curtains and artwork everywhere. It wasn't always a torn up ruin. And we had a lot of activities and parties for the patients. I worked there until the closure and have many fond memories of my patients and co-workers.

I thought Amontillado as well...

My uncle worked the movie projector...I was about 4 years old (1961). He would take me, my sister, and his three daughters to see the nights show. I think I was too young to really understand where we were sitting in the dark, the five of us girls, ages 4-14 along with the patients who quietly filed in. I know I never felt afraid, but just a confusion of where exactly I was and who all those people were who couln't go home after the show.

this is oddly one of my favorites i have seen on the website so far.

yea its all gone ,a toyota training place is there now.

this is not the kitchen its part of the laundry.

the outlet on the wall was a safty outlet for the m to light there smokes