Northern Michigan Asylum (Traverse City State Hospital)
Cottage 25
Willow Cottage
Formerly State Hospital Museum, recently renamed Willow Cottage of the Grand Traverse Pavilions Cottages.
Cottage 25 (Museum) was one of the first large Victorian
houselike "cottages" built at Northern Michigan Asylum (later Traverse
City State Hospital). Designed by area architect C.S.Prall, it is over
to 100 years old, having been built in 1892
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 layout of this cottage is unique among the cottages, and it is one of those that lacks a tower (although it had a tower at one time). The building is made interesting by its porch and roofline. 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 currently unused, but it was used as a State Hospital Museum until the early 1990s. It used to be connected on its north side to the Women's Auditorium (demolished in the mid 1990s). Cottages 23 and 27 lie to the west, and the new Grand Traverse Pavilions are very close to the southeast of this cottage. Cottage 25 is one of "The Cottages" of Grand Traverse Pavilions the cottages claimed by Grand Traverse Pavilion. Renamed Willow Cottage, this will be the last of the three to be renovated for assisted living use. Cottage 21 ( Evergreen Cottage) is currently halfway through its rehabilitation, and this will be followed by Cottage 23 (Hawthorn), and finally Cottage 25.
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.
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