Eloise (psychiatric hospital)
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Jagman714
N 42° 17.216 W 083° 20.548
17T E 306871 N 4684291
Eloise (psychiatric hospital)is now the Kay Beard Building.
Waymark Code: WMTZT
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 10/12/2006
Views: 102
Eloise was a psychiatric hospital located in Southeastern Michigan. It operated from 1839 to the early 1980s, and housed not only the mentally ill, but poor and sick people as well. At its prime, Eloise consisted of 78 buildings and 902 acres (3.7 km²) of land. Now only ruins, an unmarked cemetery, sewer lids with "Eloise Hospital" engraved on them, and 4 of the original 78 buildings remain.
Eloise was voted into existence as a poor house by Detroit voters in 1832. In 1839, Wayne county added a former stagecoach stop to the complex. It wasn't until 1911 that Eloise gained its most famous name from the near-by post office. In the 1930s Eloise was running at its best. The psychiatric hospital was self-sufficient, containing a dairy farm, its own fire department, and over 7000 people. In 1981 Eloise officially closed its doors and rapidly went into decay.
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