132 Comments Posted by AutumnTwin

Kind of neat the way that ONE window was spared the fate of bad weather, stupid kids and vagrants.

I love the old architecture....the transoms made hallways a little less claustrophobic feeling, let in natural light, and something a bit more interesting than a plain ordinary wall to view while walking to each office.

Hey, if you get rich enough to afford THIS baby (and all of the repairs to restore it) you could have the main floor as your gallery of ruins and live more than comfortably in the upper floors....save the big looming tower for the tourists' view from the top.

Maybe it was either to keep people from climing the posts....OR maybe the plaster was crumbling and it was used as a cover for it instead of repairing it (like a pressed tin ceiling was sometimes used to hide cracking plaster ceilings).

Looks like they tried to teach typing to the more capable patients here for some meager hope of life outside Pennhurst.

Motts, how do you know this?

A shame such beautiful decor is left to rot away into nothingness.

I've seen polished chrome mirrors at a few high schools in not-so-nice neighborhoods for the same reason....to prevent them from being shattered and the shards used to harm people.

IS that a wheelchair or is she riding one of those turn-of-the-century bicycles with the one giant wheel? Hard to tell amongst the cracking.

Interesting that it's "politically correct" images.

Sick as it sounds (and as dangerous as it would likely be).....it would be kinda neat to see what kind of fireworks come out of THAT baby if you turned it on in its present state!

PSST - It's bad luck to view your reflection thorugh a broken mirror! (if you follow that belief)

Maybe they left select lights on for "security" reasons. There are a few closed down restaurants and stores in my area and the power's been on there for a LONG time with no occupants. (too bad I missed out on the three-day demolition project of one old dumpy restaurant)

Looks like the vulture, the bird of death, reigns supreme at this place. He's got the luxury suite up there, it seems!

Now you know what it's like to be IN the maze in Pac-Man! LOL!

You can tell this was private at one time from the fancy things like this.