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One of my high interests, and I haven't yet found any threads dedicated to it.
I'll start it rolling with a favorite place of mine.
Opened around 1952 with closure beginning in the 1980s, the Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital(NRPH)
was located in the western suburb of Detroit, Michigan in an at-the-time sparsely-populated township of Northville.
It was a State-operated facility, managed by the State of Michigan, located on a site of roughly
450 acres of old-growth forest comprised of oak, maple, elm, etc.
Due to the trend of "de-institutionalization" sweeping the nation, and successful psychotopic drug
treatments taking hold, the campus of 20 or more buildings began closing in the 1980s and was
fully closed by 2003, becoming devoid of life. Obviously, the earliest buildings to become vacant
were the first to show decay, but some of the newer closures decayed very rapidly.
It is all gone now, with a University of Michigan medical facility having gone up as the first
new construction on the site. There was a lot of contention about the site's ultimate
disposition between neighboring municipalities almost 20 years ago, and it ended up
being majority-owned by Northville Township with plans to become a wild/open space
for public use.
My visits were many, so I'll start with a few images and add more later.
This room's tiles were nearly all filled with pencil scribblings
Close-up: "And I regret about repentance for SINNERS"
Everyone else: Post up yours!
I'll start it rolling with a favorite place of mine.
Opened around 1952 with closure beginning in the 1980s, the Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital(NRPH)
was located in the western suburb of Detroit, Michigan in an at-the-time sparsely-populated township of Northville.
It was a State-operated facility, managed by the State of Michigan, located on a site of roughly
450 acres of old-growth forest comprised of oak, maple, elm, etc.
Due to the trend of "de-institutionalization" sweeping the nation, and successful psychotopic drug
treatments taking hold, the campus of 20 or more buildings began closing in the 1980s and was
fully closed by 2003, becoming devoid of life. Obviously, the earliest buildings to become vacant
were the first to show decay, but some of the newer closures decayed very rapidly.
It is all gone now, with a University of Michigan medical facility having gone up as the first
new construction on the site. There was a lot of contention about the site's ultimate
disposition between neighboring municipalities almost 20 years ago, and it ended up
being majority-owned by Northville Township with plans to become a wild/open space
for public use.
My visits were many, so I'll start with a few images and add more later.
This room's tiles were nearly all filled with pencil scribblings
Close-up: "And I regret about repentance for SINNERS"
Everyone else: Post up yours!
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