114 Comments Posted by Nauseous

I like it. Is the floor sloped or am I just tired?

This places was BAD

"It is impossible to think of Summer without visualizing children at play. Nothing could be more timely, then, than to consider the 1,200 children at Roseville -- three-quarters of whom would be physically and mentally capable of benefiting from a planned recreational program -- for whom there is little or no opportunity for play because Roseville provides neither the facilities nor the official interest to make play possible for them. Instead these children are doomed to days of unvarying inactivity, spending their free time sitting about in a bare "playroom" or roaming aimlessly about the immediate environs of their particular cottage. The inevitable results of this should not be too difficult to imagine. "

It think the school was of Catholic persuasion, so it could very well have been a chapel.

There is a market for this type of photography. A fellow explorer that I know has had a book published with Arcadia Publishing, titled "Forgotten Columbus". He's working on a second book now...

Thanks for the info. I was just going off this article:
http://www.th-record.com/archive/2003/08/25/jgmyster.htm

I try to approach the security guards (not the police). Some of them are pretty nice. I met some nice demolition guys who brought a 106 year old pew out of an abandoned catholic school to my house!

Do you know when this place closed?

ICF-MR stands for "Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded". Could this have been a plan to convert the building into one?

The news story about Pennhurst showed children strapped (more like shackled) to cribs like these with flies all over them. In one image, a fly strip hung above the crib. It looked like a scene from a third world country.

I think the only beautiful thing about Pennhurst is the architecture of the building. Certainly nothing that went on inside it's lovely walls would be described as beautiful.

The curtains match... the decay.

Yes. All 5 parts were on the above link.

It is a very heartbreaking story.

That's always a comforting sight. I think it's hilarious that you took a picture.

This has a tunnel-like effect to it.

Could it be the irony of the lightbulb (remaining unbroken)?