364 Comments for Northville State Hospital

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Those walls on the left remind me of the walls in one of the elementary schools I attended. It's the architecture of the 50's. Oh how I would never want to live or work in this place. The bland color alone is enough to depress a person.
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The first thing it reminded me of was those cages at fairs where the clowns sit inside making fun of people walking by. Then, if someone hits the ball just in the right spot, the clown falls in the water.
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Motts encounters a fellow traveler.
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Ultraviolet, I am puzzled by the same thing. In so many of these hospitals and asylums the records of patients are left behind. In this case, it seems that all they had to do was erase the name on the boards before they left.
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Beauty in the midst of sadness and decay.
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I can just imagine what it was like to drag a troubled patient off to the "Quiet Room." These psych hospitals were such depressing places to live.
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Wanderer, I agree it does look like a school - especially that smaller building to the left. That looks very much like one of the elementary schools I attended.
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Another gallery so soon after the other one. What a treat. And a psych ward....one of my favorite places to view here on Opacity.
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Yeah, concur Freespirit76; i think a lot of thoughts like this....do something with it. The waste upsets me. A lot!
I want to be a multi-millionaire and buy it too.
But this Northville S.H. would probably be best as a hotel, guess
- but WHO, and for WHAT - would come to the area?
What is there to do here?
Or may be it could be a really COOL SCHOOL:
The Northville Academy of Safe Sustainable Living and Fun Every Day.
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I love this shot because cant´t figure anything out.
Multi Use: Autopsy Theater; Auditorium and Chapel??
But the seating arrangement?
For a Christian Chapel and The Communion, this would be a total impossible mess. So no......
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Basement Dampness
And three hinges on Every door
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yes..and a floor drain - good thinking.
Wonder if they left the hair-driers?
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Yeah
spastic kicking - could not help themselves - grrrrrrrrrr
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There IS a lot of light and space - yet it IS depressing
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Yeah.
It just closed. Be gone all.......
All the doors have three hinges. I think a lot about things like that. And I wonder