Cottage 21 (Building 21) was one of the large Victorian houselike "cottages" built at Northern Michigan Asylum (later Traverse City State Hospital). Designed by area architect C.S.Prall, it is close to 100 years old, having been built in 1901 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 north cottage area, was built to house female psychiatric patients. The cottages were built to house between 60 and 125 patients each.
The basic layout of this cottage is a rectangular north wing, a rectangular 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.
This cottage is connected on its north end on the basement level by an enclosed above-ground walkway which leads to the nearly-identical Cottage 23. The cottage is located east of Red Drive, just north of Building 50. In November of 1999, renovation started to convert this cottage into assisted living units for the Grand Traverse Pavilions. With the new name of Evergreen, the cottage will have 27 units. When the renovation on this cottage and its two neighbors (23 and 25) is complete, they will contain more than 70 assisted living units.
To find out about The Cottages of Grand Traverse Pavilions and residency in this "adult residential community", call the Grand Traverse Pavilions at (231)-932-3051. This web site is not affiliated with Grand Traverse Pavilions, and the photos and condition of the buildings here does not reflect how these Cottages will look when rehabilitation is completed.
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