364 Comments for Northville State Hospital

This place is so big! Look at that building!!

It's possible, although I've come across an account of Tom Watkins recalling patients awaiting those kinds of trials at Coleman A Young Center in Downtown Detroit (this was pre-1990)

http://www.northvilleh...iews/Watkins-Tom.pdf

The autopsy table was there just a year or two previous. I really can't imagine what people have to go through to get something like that out of there.

Yeah, it's offices and such. This is the main administration area.

Heh, the phone book is still there.

I remember a huge whiteboard inside one of those rooms with a grid for patient room assignments or similar.

I remember being rather amazed by just how much remained in this room. Doesn't seem to have changed much between my first visit and this picture.

And it is true, local police are using thermal imaging devices to locate trespassers. You can read about it in local newspaper's police activity sections.

And the damned 'SC' tags all over the place. That group of thugs have got to be THE most destructive "explorers" in the area.

Probably multi-faith services were offered in this chapel, likely non-denominational most of the time.

This was the only access we found; never found a way into the seating floor.

I was never convinced this courtroom was used by local authorities, but instead as a venue for hearings about patients. Whether to release or commit, are they no longer dangerous to themselves or others, etc. I came across nothing when I was there to suggest a local police presence. This is just speculation on my part.

not likely TV, there is an image of how they mounted TVs at northville at http://outlet.historicimages.com/

Yes, i do think so too; creepier - yet to saunter and walk and wander around, is such an awesome first-rate event, You Lucky Guy.
And thanks for sharing
- if it were not for you.................

Hospitals try their best to have bodies removed within 24 hours of the death. Main reason is space. This has 6 drawers which is probably enough for an inpatient hospital this size. Unless this was a long term care facility most of the patients would be treated and released when they were considered controlled. I would imagine there were not a lot of deaths in the hospital.

Mica, I wonder if the three hinges were used because some psych patients can be violent. The strength of a violent mental patient is pretty amazing. But as an aside, my house was built in 1920 and there are 3 hinges on every door. Architect choice?

Even psych patients appreciate a touch of civility. So the carpet is probably blue colored fake grass. In the 70's I moved from an old hospital building into a new one built by the same employer. The patient rooms were carpeted. Administration told us that studies showed only minor differences in growth rates of bacteria on carpet versus vinyl time. Did we believe them? Nope. But this carpet could be an upgrade from that period of time.

Yeah, Darlene - am sure it was. You are right: better safe than sorry crashing TV.