1.15.2009

Southwest Michigan Tuberculosis Sanatorium

I "discovered" this site when I lived in Kalamazoo during the mid-1990s. I was intrigued because it was a abandoned modern-style institutional building situated in the middle of an older residential neighborhood.

The building opened in 1954 as a Tuberculosis Sanatorium. It was turned into a Mental Health facility in 1970, and eventually closed in the late 1980's. Despite several potential plans for reuse, nothing has yet happened with this building.

Click here for a rear photo and a more detailed history of the site.



Click here for a 1957 photo from a similar angle.



The entire site was fenced off sometime between 1997 and 2002, when these photos were taken.



P.S. Don't climb to the second floor and enter the building. You could set off the silent alarm and get arrested.