urbexHHR

So back in July a friend and I went and explored the abandoned psychiatric hospital on 7 Mile and Haggarty in Northville, MI.

Thought I'd share some of the pictures with you guys.... There are 49 pictures, so no point in posting them... You can see them on my Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebrow/s...7624581262903/

Little history on the complex.... It was built in the late 40's or early 50's and closed in 2003. Much of it is still in tact since it hasn't been closed that long. The area all around it is full of residential communities, so it wouldn't surprise me if this place is demolished for housing...

LewiSS

Some nice shots! I have always been fascinated with abandoned buildings. Growing up in Oklahoma we used to climb around in abandoned farmhouses (amazing we didn't fall through a floor to our death!). My wife and I both love post-apocolyptic books and movies - my interest probably comes from those old abandoned buildings. I sometimes dream about being in an abandoned department store - all the fixtures are there but no merchandise (probably a childhood memory, especially since, in the dream, the place looks early '60's). It's never a scary dream, just interesting.

geesh

Great pictures! Love the one at the end with your car in front of the old building. The interior shots look just like ones taken from an abandoned town about 10 minutes from my house. It is also slated for demolition, with 1000+ residential condos and houses being built over the next 12 years. it's amazing that, at this place you took all these pics, that it was only abandoned since 2003. Take a look at the below photos, Tranquille BC has been laregely abandoned since 1984. It opened as a TB facility in 1910, closed in 1955. Re-opened in the early sixties as an insane asylum/ psychiatric hospital and closed down in 1984.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougwl/...7615735228325/

mongo

So B&E is a hobby?

American & Proud

Very COOL.

I Love finding places like that and Exploring. Usually I find them on a road trip out buying something from a Craigs List AD and Forget to bring my Nikon along.

Greybeard999

It's weird that there was so much stuff left behind at that place....... like, just the people left. Spooky.

urbexHHR

Glad you guys liked the pictures! And it's not B&E, it's urban exploration. There's a difference!

And I do like those shots you have geesh! Very cool complex!

Mowgli

Cool & creepy shots! (Who is Brittany?)


Here's a link to the main urban exploring site:

http://www.uer.ca/locations/show.asp?locid=20017

Here's one to their forum discussing Northville Psychiatric hospital

http://www.uer.ca/forum_search1.asp?...&where=regular



Here's some more semi-related stuff:

I liked Session 9 movie especially because it takes place locally at notorius Danvers State Insane Asylum

Here are some links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_9
http://www.brutalashell.com/2009/01/...insane-asylum/

More tough love:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Insane-Asylu...ious-Hauntings

Mowgli

Something like this picture & quote from brutalashell.com



"Still, they can’t possibly have it as bad as Danvers previous tenants: the lobotomized, the criminally insane, the weak and the wounded.
Whether or not Hathorne Hill is populated by the uneasy spirits of the tormented dead is a moot point:
that place is just bad juju personified and the very idea of living in a “luxury condo” which looks almost exactly like the insane asylum that once stood there is…well, insane!"

crazy_urn

nice pics... looks like a good scene for a zombie movie/game....

i think it would creep me out too much to go... i watch too many movies.