1,062 Comments for Ypsilanti State Hospital

There was a regulation 9 hole golf course in front and on the side toward US 23. There were also tennis courts right out in the area where it appears this shot was taken from.

Hi Anna...I worked there from 1972-1983. Looked far worse from the outside than the inside. Although there were some unconventional treatments in those days, all were done with good intentions and many good people worked there. I have fond memories of my years working there and wish they would resume having reunions again like they did a couple of times a few years back.

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how do i find out about patients in the 70's ?

treereader, were you there in the mid 70's ?

in the mid 60's we would be led down here to visit a little store to buy some candy or someting.

The light spilling out of the room makes it seem there's still life going on inside it.

This area in front of the buildings was a small golf course for a while. I think it was open to the public, I vaguely remember my brother playing it.

I lived across the highway from the hospital/prisons had a view of them from my bedroom I remember this sign posted next to our phone in the kitchen. when there were escapes there was a phone chain, we would get call with a discription of the person and had to call the next person. There was also testing of the sirens every Monday 9am without fail...you eventually got used to it. I had the sirens memorized and i think the only one we never heard thankfully was disaster.

This was probably a window from the office into the med room. They put these windows in so scrips could be handed into the med room to be transcribed. It facilitated communication between Doctors, nurses and staff.

Back when forensics were still there the balconies were used as the smoking porches after the large dayrooms were opened. Before they opened the front dayrooms all the units used a small unventalated smoking room with no outside air coming in

Exactly how long were you in there Wayne? Several of your comments say you were "13 or 14, in the 50's"...the last photo, your comment says "around 8 years old"...I have no doubt you were institutionalized, I'm just wondering for how long?

Wayne, I can imagine that it WAS a place of nightmares in the fifties...I visited my mother there in the 80's, and it didn't seem very welcoming then. I've been locked up myself, and when I think back to that visit, I'm very thankful I was never committed there.

This was called the hole !!! In C build I know because I was taken there for a week for excape from ward A-21 build A Suppervisior Jones

You all joke about that place but I was there and it was pure Heck! I was just around 10 or 12 on ward A-21 in the main build. The tunnels were all through the buildings so we could not excapt but I did and got as far as Indiana. I broke out a window by breaking the hinges on my window and crawing out in the midle of the night by droping bed sheets down to the ground and climing out.