Photos date from March 2005.
Some of you may be familiar with the fact that Maybury State Park used to be the Maybury Sanatorium, a tuberculosis hospital up in the hills of Northville, far northwest of Detroit. It was bounded by 7 Mile and 8 Mile Roads, between Beck and Napier Roads, in the far upper-left corner of Wayne County, on the highest elevation of land within the county. There isn't much left of it these days, aside from a couple scraps of rubble here and there in the woods. The beautiful wooded hills have been preserved for public recreation however, and it may be fondly remembered by most Metro-Detroiters as the one and only place that they ever rode a horse. The sanatorium buildings and tunnels were demolished in 1972. You may not have been aware that the four old doctors' residences clustered just off Beck Road near 8 Mile were left standing, and one of them was reused by the Michigan DNR staff, back by where the riding stables area was. I suspect they may have been built slightly later than the hospital itself, perhaps in the early 1930s.
