Tuberculosis Hospital

THANK YOU so much for bringing more wonderful pictures, Motts!

Damn dude, you get around

I can not believe the amount of beautiful abandoned buildings in the US. It's sad and so wasteful. With so many homeless and those not able to afford housing the government needs to refurbish and rebuild these to make group homes.

I have to agree with spacyjo about these beautiful buildings being left to rot is such a waste. Dunno if I'd want them converted to group homes, but there has got to be something we can do with these buildings instead of just building new (and eventually abandoning them too).

I throughly fancy this shot. Might use it as a wallpaper.

On any account ever think of visiting the 'Waverly Hills Sanitorium' Motts?

Ever hear of asbestos? That is probably the main reason these places are left to rot. Costs a fortune to do anything with them!

''Greene Acres is the place to be...

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL BUILDING!!!

Hey, I live about 5 mins away from two old hospitals. One they tore down, and put up a strip mall. The Hospital Was called, Pontiac State Hospital... and it was BIG!! it had about 30 out buldings for staff and Docs. It covered about 600 acs. I played Paint Ball in there when I was younger.... I WISH I HAD A CAMERA... it was JUST LIKE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, undefinedthe new one). They had pens in holders still on the desk, with half writen letters, and cig. buts still in the ashtrays! lots of tunells, all over the place!!! and old hospital stuff every place!! The Other hospital, is now called Oakland Comunity College. Highland Lakes Campus. The Main Bulding was a TB Hospital dateing back to the mid 20's I think... Funny enough, the Main bulding on the campus, is the old hospital, and thats where they have all of the medical classes! HAHA. The computer tech bulding is the old childerns wing, and above that, the baby's wing undefinedREALLY CREAPY UP THERE) The Old Elevators are sitll there, working and used. You should at least give it some mention. here is the offical link you can just tell it was a hospital!! http://www.oaklandcc.edu/Campuses/HL.htm

did anyone ever get into Kalamazoo State Hosp., MI before it was torn down?
There were cagelike cells on the 3rd floor for the "unmanageables"

Crazy, great pics

Home, sweet home, where many abandoned places keep us having fun.

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The design of this building looks like it was just thrown together from several different architects who could not agree one single thing.

Signed; An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

I've been to Broadacers hospital at 230 in the morning with a freind we wanted tosee if it was haunted but we had no luck of finding a ghost.

this is to student nurse/kazoo:

Are you talking about the building off of Blakesly St? (sp?)
I have been in there several times. It's not torn down.

Now thats a nice picture:)

About twenty-five years ago I lamented aloud regarding some abandoned apartments "All these homeless people(hey!,I'm quoting myself!) and you have all those buildings going to waste"
An older man looked-up from his cigarette and with furrowed brow said; "You can't put homeless in there; you can't put homeless in there; they'll burn it the hell down!!"
'Those' abandoned buildings were taken over by an out-of-state corp.,gutted and rebuilt and then rented-out for $1000 plus utilities.(do you think that could be part of the problem?)

The Kalamazoo State Hospital still has two buildings standing. The main hospital is still being used as a mental facility and one of the resident halls that is now used as a 'group home' for work release prisoners of the county jail.

The creepy place around k'zoo far as I'm concerned is the old tb sanitorium off Douglas. That place creeps me out!!!

Dude. Yeah. I have to agree wtih Bronwyn. The old TB Sanitorium is soooo creepy. You can like, feel something watching you when you're near it. It's so weird.

ive been in there b4.....its scary as hell
its sooooo haunted its not even funny

I've wanted to go explore the old TB hospital on Blakeslee in kalamazoo. I want to take pictures. I have not found many. The only thing is I would be scared to get caught.

i dont realy know that much but i lived in kalamazoo and i went there one time with my dad and a light on the third floor was turning on and off so it is haunted

it's not haunted, I lived on North street and went into the building 3 times. we didn't hear a peep. we didn't even have a flashlight the first time, we used lighters to see.

I've been to the old sanitorium in Kazoo a dozen times (not in a couple years though). Real creepy, but never seen anything to suggest its haunted. The morgue is freaky, especially if you get in the those body drawer things and close the door. Used to sit on the roof and drink beers, and came across a bum up there once. Thats about the scariest thing I've seen there.

that place is just up my street blakeslee st i have also heard so many things about. and i see a lot of weird things past the gate, it is so creepy my sisters friends went up there recorded it went home try to see video but the video but it kept on coming out and the VHS was not messed up ether, freaky huhhhhh

Yes, that place is filled with asbestos. No one wants anything to do with it. K-pep wanted to buy it and turn it into a group home for troubled teens and young adults. Unfortunately they were turned down because the surrounding area didn't want troubled people in their area! Hahaha that's freakin hilarious because that place is FILLED with 'troubled people.' Except now they don't have a place to get help, they walk the streets instead. Selling and buying drugs, fighting, etc. hypocrite north side. By the way, lock your doors if you're driving in that area...

I am writing a book on haunted locations and legends in and around the KZoo area. I would love to hear stories on this location. WMU is allowing us on the grounds for photography for the book.
You can email me at: nicole@paranormalmichigan.com

Motts, you make me grin. Nice account of the conversation with the teenagers at the beginning. lol (very)

Nicole. Would love to read your book when it's finished!

I grew up down the street from this place. It was just one of the buildings of a large hospital campus. This building was abandoned while the other buildings of the campus were still in operation. All of the buildings were connected by underground tunnels. My friend used to work the graveyard shift in the maintenance dept. back in the 1980's, and we explored every square inch of this place. It was scary as hell. When people died in the other hospital buildings of the Broadacres complex, they would wheel the bodies on gurneys through the tunnel that led to this building, so they could store the body for the coroner to pick them up. My friends and I have been chased by the cops many times from this place. I couldn't imagine what my childhood would have been like if this place were not here. it's a shame that they tore it down.

I went in there just a couple of weeks ago and all i seen was a white think kinda infront of me and i shined the flashlight and it went away....then something banged above me and right next time and for the rest of the night nothing else happend......then just last week i went again and it sounded like someone was breathing behind me and when i was in the boiler room it sounded like someone was running up behind me when i got onto the stairs.....i found some papers that were on the 3rd floor i think that were dated 1980 it was really cool!!!! i would love to go back again but it hurts to get up there and back down!!!

I don't know how to thank you for putting these photos up on the Web. These artful and haunting images -- every single one of them -- touch me on a very personal level,. For, you see, my own German-American father (d.1981) was committed to Broadacres twice in the 1930s and 40s with adult TB. He lived there for a cumulative total of maybe 3 yrs or more, and my mother tells me she visited him there daily. All of this happened long before I was born, and lately I've been trying to reconstruct pieces of my father's distant past. The pictures you've posted are an enormous help!
FYI, I have good scans of several old photos of my father at Broadacres, and of course I have the original prints. If at all interested, you can email me at cnill@live.com.

I grew up living less than two minutes away from this place, and i'd have to say that the picture looks NOTHING like what it looks like now. I looked back at it a couple days ago, and You can tell that its abandoned with its broken windows and torn-down doors. It has dead plants and moss all over... i'm convinced its haunted... although i have never heard any screams or anything that some people say, when i was little, i used to make up stories about what happened. I ended up scaring myself so much...

D' field- they didnt tear it down yet. It will be torn down sometime in September 2011.

Well from personal exp. I can't say the buildings were haunted but I can def say they were extremely creepy I never seen any ghosts or heard any dumb shit but that place is Lika huge maze when it's dark an all sense of direction is out the window I got lost in the tunnels as a youngin when I went AWOL from the old detention center that wus on the same campus spite curiosity of danger I mean the buildings themselves would play mind games wit yuh at nite time I got my hands on some old patient charts from the mental asylum that wus later used as a elderly home that said some pretty gruesome things an seen sum pretty horrific devices but never had any spiritual encounters lol all In all awesome pix it's exactly how I remembered it =] just wish u woulda got pix of the other two complexes b4 they demo'd em damn shame they took em dwn!

i can say the old tb hospital in kzoo is leveled had so many memory's of that place it's creepy im sad now it was historic

I spent 6 yrs in the KSH childrens unit, as a patient. It opened about 1960, We were told that the building was origionally the Mary Muff TB hospital. We were very well treated, and I I attended Kazoo Central HS while a patient. This is not the building I lived in, is anyone familiar with the Mary Muff building?

back in the early 80s i was a nurses aid In training at Broadacres but that didnt last too long ... the look in many of the patients eyes...soo sad and alone...broke my heart.... :(