Cottage 28

Cottage 28 (Building 28) was the first of the large Victorian houselike "cottages" built at Northern Michigan Asylum (later Traverse City State Hospital). Designed by area architect E.R. Prall, it is over 100 years old, being built in 1891. 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 south cottage area, was built to house male psychiatric patients. The cottages were built to house between 60 and 125 patients each.

This cottage is unique among the eleven cottages in its floor plan and look. It is the only one with a tower on the center of the roof instead of at the sides or corners. In this feature it is similar to Building 50 which has many "Kirkbride towers" on the top center of the roof. Like the other cottages, it has two stories plus a large attic level and a half-buried ground floor below.

This cottage is currently unused. It is located near cottages 30 and 32, and is attached on the north to Building 22 (which in turn connects to Cottage 40). These three buildings (28,22 and 40) almost make up one large building with three wings.

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Southwest view, August 1998

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