Built in
the 1870's as the Eastern Michigan Asylum and later renamed
Pontiac Hospital this sprawling complex covered 500 acres
and housed as many as 3,100 mentally ill patients by the
1950's.
Ruin du
Jour -- October 8, 2000
THE
DEMISE OF PONTIAC STATE HOSPITAL
Once
the foremost mental health institution in Michigan, the
Pontiac State Hospital, aka the Clinton Valley Center
was closed in 1997 and demolished in 2000.
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