Cottage 34

Cottage 30 (Building 30) is one 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 90 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 south cottage area, was built to house male psychiatric patients. The cottages were built to house between 60 and 125 patients each.

The basic layout of this cottage is a square north wing, a square south wing, and a narrower section connecting them, with a round tower in the middle of the east half 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. Unlike the other cottages with round towers, however, this one has three-sided towers on each end as well.

This cottage is currently unused. It is located on the south side of Brown Drive (a short street that connects Red and Silver Drivers), just south of Cottage 32 and east of Cottage 36

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East (front) facade, entire building

The background of this page is a shade of institutional green from one of the interior walls of this cottage.

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