313 Comments Posted by andrew

What building was this in? If this is Penn Hall, then this is where the staff lived. This might explain the more private conditions in the bathrooms. In most of the living quarters there were just communal showers with no covers.

That table at the back was probably a diaper changing station. Some of these patients wore diapers because they weren't toilet trained.

The hospital building was built up of 6 wings, labeled A-F. Wings E&F are one story buildings that look like they don't fit in with the rest of the buildings. Wing C is currently sealed off and condemned.

This institution was built after the abolition of slavery. But the patients did most of the work here. They worked in the farms, in the greenhouses, in the kitchen...they even helped the doctors in the operating room!

@Kathleen Fletcher
I'm sorry about all the atrocities your brother endured there. But I can't find any record of a Petersburg Training School in Petersburg, VA. Is there another name for it?

These are the steps in the Administration Building.

Look just above the staircase: doesn't that dark spot look like a human head?

Canada, surprisingly the best philly cheesesteak isn't geno's or pat's in my opinion. My favorite is a place by the river called Rotten Ralph's.

so that's how you get everywhere... maybe i should buy a cheap security shirt like that. Haha...Rekrats. I saw that too and all of a sudden i started hearing the "she works hard for the money" song in my head.

so jealous of your ability to go where no tourists have gone before... at least someone can get into these places and take great photos for the rest of us to view.

again motts... how did you get there? That is the best part of the building yet it is off limits. I would love to see you in action one day.

how the crap do you get these places motts? I would love to go up there but whenever I asked they said it wasn't open to guests. You sneaky little devil , motts. Great picture by the way.

to the above poster- That is a shame that you couldn't go inside. That is the best part so if you can go again some time. Also, it under glass and part of the eastern state museum(it is now all a museum/tour thing) so I think security might have a problem with the removal of their property :) . (it would make a good decoration for my house though, haha)

The following story is 100% true: there was a patient at the hospital who had his teeth pulled without novocaine! He reported it after the hospital closed.

I use a Simplex E-7 on a weekly basis. These images make me sad because it's so difficult to find spare parts.