What are these building? [Herman Kiefer Hospital]

[Islandman]

Didn't they have an issue a few years back with some ceilings crashing down?

[milt721]

Didn't they have an issue a few years back with some ceilings crashing down?

I remember that too.

[Jimaz]

Street View always helps when exploring the surroundings.

[Hamtragedy]

My 92 yr old grandmother just recently told me that she was quarantined in the mid 50's at Herman Kiefer for a false reading of TB [[which apparently were common).

Unfortunately, she had just started a new job [[after two years of selling buttons at Hudson's, which was entry level immigrant labor), and was moving out of her old apartment, and as luck would have it, was quarantined the weekend she was moving. A newly divorced single mother with four kids [[my dad being one of them), three years off the boat and already struggling, the kids were all split apart. Now homeless [[never moved into the new place), unemployed, [[the new boss wanted the new immigrant at work no matter what), and destitute, Herman Kiefer released her after three weeks and told her she didn't have TB, she was taken in by gangster Black Tony's secretary, where she stayed and cleaned Black Tony's Grosse Pointe house to get back on her feet.

As my grandmother continued the story, she started laughing, because while living at Black Tony's she applied for welfare, and the welfare agent had to meet her at the sizable Grosse Pointe estate. After about three months, she had enough saved, got a new job, and was able to get her kids back.

[5speedz34]

I don't understand why the main building looks kept up, yet the outlying buildings are totally open to the elements and scrappers. Not to mention it's in direct view of the freeway. Even by city standards it seems like very poor management.

FWIW, If you were born prior to like 1978 in the City of Detroit you have to go to Lansing now to get your birth certificate. I had a buddy find out the hard way.

[wilderness]

I've some 1920s pic saved of the early hospital [[the buildings were smaller).

Don't recall if they were saved from links in another thread here or I located them someplace else.

I had an Aunt who spent a year there [[isolation) in the mid-50s with TB, and we used to visit.