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The asylum that became the Commons
Traverse City State Hospital, Traverse City, Michigan
Andrew Jameson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The Northern Michigan Asylum opened in 1885 on the Kirkbride plan under a superintendent who banned straitjackets and prescribed flowers, work and beauty, and its Victorian-Italianate wards ran for over a century. Instead of demolition, Traverse City turned the enormous buildings into shops, restaurants and apartments called the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, one of the largest historic reuses in the country. The old steam tunnels and fairy doors get their own tours.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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