It was Perry Hannah, today known as the father of Traverse City, who insisted on hosting the state’s third hospital. According to historians, Hannah knew the lumber industry, on which the region ...

TRAVERSE CITY -- It's hard to believe the ... the same can't be said about these massive grounds that once housed the state hospital. The "road to mental health" -- as a sign stored in the back ...

The massive center of the old Traverse City State Hospital, nearly a quarter of a mile from end to end, used to be called Building 50. Hallways that once held committed patients are now lined with ...

It later was named the Traverse City State Hospital, where staff cared for patients for a century before it closed in the late 1980s. Now a mixed-use development, the huge main building and its ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. Until it closed in 1989, the Traverse City State Hospital was among the largest employers in this small city in northern Michigan. Two new commercial and residential ...

The guided tour will walk willing ticketholders through Cottage #30, just one building on the sprawling campus of the former Traverse City State Hospital, also known as the Northern Michigan Asylum.

TRAVERSE CITY — Upstairs in a cottage attic at the former Traverse City State Hospital, Miss Mabel Davis wrote a cryptic note — “cleaned house — April 23, 1904.” Down in the basement ...

Known as the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane until 1911, Traverse City State Hospital operated on a “beauty is therapy” philosophy. Patients were treated with compassion and lived in ...

By the 1930s, the hospital was the city's largest employer ... I lived not a block from the state hospital for a year at a women’s center. I was outside one night mid October and I saw what ...

TRAVERSE CITY — On Tuesday, the Rotary Club of Traverse City honored the man behind the village project that revitalized the old Traverse City State Hospital to The Village at Grand Traverse ...

Located over a partly subterranean ground floor of a former mental health institution, the Italian restaurant was the first business to stake a hold in the old Traverse City State Hospital ...