Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital
N 44° 45.356 W 085° 38.524
16T E 607479 N 4956734
The Village at Grand Traverse Commons its now called with shops, condos, and more. The marker is missing!
Waymark Code: WMXVVG
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 03/04/2018
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The northern Michigan Asylum (now the Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital) was organized in 1881. It opened on November 30, 1885, with forty three residents. Dr. J. D. Munson was the facility's superintendent for its first thirty-nine years. The original buildings served five hundred residents. By 1959 the facility had 1.4 million square feet of floor space and housed 2,956 residents. The institution's farms and its processing and manufacturing facilities covered over a thousand acres and made it nearly self-sufficient. Between 1885 and 1985 it served over fifty thousand residents. After 1960, with advances in treatment and community services, the need for in-patient facilities declined. In 1985 one hundred and fifty beds served the area's acute and intensive psychiatric needs.
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Registered Site #: S0573
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