Northern Michigan Asylum (Traverse City State Hospital)
Cottage 23
Evergreen Cottage
Cottage 23 (Building 23) was one of the last of the large Victorian
houselike "cottages" built at Northern Michigan Asylum (later Traverse
City State Hospital). Designed by area architect C.S.Prall, it is close
to 100 years old, having been built in 1904
Like the other cottages and Building 50, it was
built of whitish-yellowish brick from the Markham brickworks. This cottage,
like the others in the north cottage area, was built to house female
psychiatric patients. The cottages were built to house between 60
and 125 patients each.
The basic layout of this cottage is a rectangular north wing, a
rectangular south
wing, and a narrower section connecting them, with a round tower in the
middle of the east side of the connecting section. This is the most
common plan for the cottages: out of the eleven State Hospital cottages,
five of them share this basic plan. Like all of the other
cottages, it has two stories plus a large attic level and a half-buried
ground floor below.
This cottage is made distinct from the other "tower" cottages by the
porthole-like windows found in the tower roof, and by the porch that
surrounds the main floor of the tower.
This cottage is currently unused. It is connected on its south end
on the basement level by an enclosed above-ground walkway which leads
tp the nearly-identical Cottage 21.
The cottage is located east of
Red Drive, between Cottages 25, 21, and 27
just north of Building 50.
Cottage 23 is one of the cottages
claimed by Grand Traverse Pavilions for possible conversion into an
assisted living residence home, and it has been given a new name of
Hawthorn Cottage.
To find out about The Cottages of Grand Traverse Pavilions and residency
in this "adult residential community", call the Grand Traverse Pavilions
at (231)-932-3051. This web site is not affiliated with Grand Traverse Pavilions, and the
photos and condition of the buildings here does not reflect how
these Cottages will look when rehabilitation is completed.
Click on the following links to see more photos:
Southeast (front) View
Southeast Tower Detail
Interior view: corridor
Northwest (back) View
Southwest (Side) View, connecting hall to the right
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