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There's a forensic unit at Mayview State Hospital in PA. It will be closing at the end of the year...

Those doors look like they could be made of metal... brass or bronze?

The kiln wouldn't be very hot from the outside, actually. Kiln brick is extremely insulating. It is the radiant heat that is dissipated during cooling that really builds up.

scaryyyyyy T-T

wow this picture is scary...

especially because i'm home alone....

and its 1:30 AM
*shudder*

you shouldn't have done that

sad display of the way man uses something til it serves his purpose no more

kim they probably tore it down just like most of the once grand mansions in the once most wealthy neighborhoods called BRUSH PARK

the only monsters are the ones who let something once so grand fall into such a state of neglect and disrepair

Arl46, What building, what ward.

I like this collection.

I spent about two years at Pilgrim as a patient during the 1980's and my father, according to records spent four years there: 1958-1962. We both shaired the same patient number. Part of a long term study, one would suppose. I also know he was interred at Edgeweed for some time but the record keepers refuse to admit the fact. Why? Someone above mentioned something about Germany committing crimes during the secound World War. If, I suspect, the facts became known of some of the human experiments that went on in the institutions on Long Island, for instance, way before that war, that many people would say that what Germany did was mere kid stuff compaired to what was being done here in this country. In fact, what we might have done to P.O.W.'s and their offspring might bring internatioanal war crimes investigations against the U.S.A. If you daubt what I say, starte beings detectives and begin to investigate sites such as this! It's somewhat of a sin to experiment on children and raise them for such...Isn't it?

If you look closer under the howling face you can see a couple of skulls in the archway

Here here!

For the purposes of the study this would normally have been described under the "Subjects" section. Since all I can find is an abstract, I don't know what their reference group was. Probably people who had not been diagnosed as having psychosis, a psychotic break, or schizophrenia as defined at the time of the study.

Motts, thank you for posting such beautiful pictures. This cemetery reminds me of a cemetery I used to walk through on my lunch break. I have since moved away and forgot how much I missed going there until I saw this set.