Courtesy photoThe Village at Grand Traverse Commons in Traverse City once housed the state hospital. More than 50 new businesses have opened in the facility. TRAVERSE CITY -- It's hard to believe ...

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 changed names, first to Traverse City State Hospital, then to Traverse City Regional Psychiatric Hospital. By 1959, the asylum held nearly 3,000 patients across 1.4 million square feet of space.

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 ...

The year it opened, the Traverse City hospital had about 500 patients and was always full or exceeding capacity. By 1973, the patient population had grown to 2,200, with four beds in rooms ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – A former Traverse City chapel that once was part of a state hospital is getting a new life as a restaurant as part of a new $3 million redevelopment. The Traverse … ...

It was a packed room filled with standing ovations and cheers as Ray Minervini was awarded the Paul Harris Service Above Self Award for the impact he made on the community. “Why is Traverse City ...

The Traverse City State Hospital, familiar to many Up North as the Northern Michigan Asylum, started taking patients in 1885. The building was designed — patients and their families might have ...

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, and it ...