Booth Memorial Hospital (Detroit, Michigan)

Canada / Ontario / Windsor / Detroit, Michigan / West Grand Boulevard, 130
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Operated by the Salvation Army, the small, three story, 35,310 sq. ft., Booth Memorial Hospital originally served the poor who were unable to afford care at other hospitals. In later years, when the major hospitals relaxed their rules and admitted indigent patients, the Booth Hospital became a hospital for unwed mothers.

During the 1960s and 1970s, society's attitude to unwed pregnancies changed lessening the need for a separate facility for unwed mothers. The hospital closed and was finally demolished in 2006. The site is now owned by a company affiliated with the Ambassador Bridge.
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Coordinates:   42°18'52"N   83°4'56"W

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  • My adopted daughter was born at the salvation Army Booth Memorial Hospital in Detroit Michigan on November 20th. 1969.Her Mother was from the Grand Rapids- Holland area. Her Mother was Dutch and her Father was Japanese. I believe they were 19 and 18 respectively and were both college students. Also they both may have had younger siblings. The paternal grandfather may have owned an Insurance Agency. She is happily married and has an adopted daughter of her own. She does not wish to be involved in your or your familys' life but has some health problems of her own and would like some family health information if you would be willing to share! Her Father and I love her dearly and considered it a most precious gift to have raised her and call her our own! Please contact me if you are her Birth Mother,Birth Father, Birth Grandparents or may know who they might be. It is extremely important that we know some medical history on our lovely daughter!
  • I was born there in Sept 1957
  • I was born there in 1946
  • Two of my children were born there in 59 and 60 because our doctor asked if we would be willing to help support the girls there who were living and working at the hospital. Of course we were very happy to do what we could to help. While there we found out that those girls helped with the laundry and also made some of the baby garments used at the hos[ital. The babies also received very good care and the girls also helped with that, too. It broke my heart when I overheard the conversation from across the hall. A very young girl had apparently delivered her baby and the new grandmother was yelling at the new mother, telling her that the little *&^&**@ was never coming to her home! That new mother did nothing but cry the rest of the day and evening. I still think about that unhappy young girl and often wonder what happened to that family. Rosemary 2017
  • I was born there on June 11 1941 to Helen (Beahon) and Robert Springer I now live in Albuquerque New Mexico, but have quite a few cousins in Detroit
  • I was born there Sept 4th 1959 -
  • My brother, Richard, was born there in November 1942.
  • I was born there too in 1973...
  • I was born there in 1952.
  • I was born there in 1956 and I worked at Cadillac Plant 2860 Clark Street until it closed in 1987. I am retired from GM living in Brentwood TN just outside of Nashville.
  • I was born there in July 1960
  • Our dad was born there in 1937.
  • I was there in 1963. The Salvation Army personnel were rude. When we had to go to church services, they put us down as tramps and sluts for having children and being unwed. I "ran away" and was fortunate enough to find a babysitting job in another city until I went into Crittenton Hospital in Detroit, where i had my son. I waited many years, thinking he would contact me. When he turned 38 years old, I said ENOUGH! I went to a site on the Internet called Birth Mothers, I believe it was. A woman on the site offered to help me because she was from Sandusky, Michigan where I had found out my son had been adopted. It was God's handiwork! Her brother was my son's friend!! And he and I have been in touch since then. He's 55 now, and his adoptive parents were good to him. I was fortunate enough to meet him at his 40th birthday party!! I've always wondered what happened to Booth Memorial Hospital, and all these years later - now I know. Thank you for having this site! God bless you all. It was a very difficult time in our lives, back then!! Sharon.
  • This is Sharon. I messed up my original comment!! I met my son's adoptive parents at his 40th birthday party!! NOT HIM!! I met him when he was 38! And he got to meet my mother who was very elderly at the time. Another of God's gifts. :]
  • I was born in William Booth Memorial Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. My mother was a nurse at the hospital as well. somehow we managed to keep me. I would guess she had to fight tooth and nail.
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