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I can not believe the amount of beautiful abandoned buildings in the US. It's sad and so wasteful. With so many homeless and those not able to afford housing the government needs to refurbish and rebuild these to make group homes.

The evil clown from "It".

Incredibly disrespectful to leave records scattered and lying around like this...don't know how old these papers are but some of the people mentioned in them might be alive!

What are these many holes above the firecell?? air intace?? or water heatpipes?

Could very well be the gateway to hell...

Particularly the 50`s strikes me as a fascist decade sometimes,nothing was allowed to flaw the "perfect" facade,which I guess was one of the reasons parents left their children at horror places like Pennhurst.I hope we have learned something since then.

OOOOOoooooh might one of the victims ghosts, maybe he suffered here too

Looks like a nightmare corridor from some horror video game.

Can u give me anby advice on going into new buildings and sites, that are unfarmilliar

As Pjrichard asks,I wonder too why they leave all the inventories behind.It's,in a way,disrespectful,at least if patient's names are still present on records.Here in Europe,modern ruins are rare(abandoned building are torn down),so this is fairly new to me,even if I have been looking around for ruins here to photograph.Fascinating and important pieces of modern history,but very tragic.
I must compliment Mott too for great pictures and a respecful approach.

Very sad and tragic picture;makes me wonder more than ever what happened to the children who lived here.

Its hard to imagine that they would just classify a child as retarded and then just sit them in a chair stareing out of a window . If anything is going to effect them mentally its isolating them in such a horrible and inhummane manor. Im not suprised that many patients regressed to a far worse state.

Scary picture...yea,interrogation is what comes to mind,not examination.

This made my eyes water...so incredibly sad.Great shot,but very disturbing.

Is that shadow meant to be there because its very spooky