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Great contrast, the rotting wood falling at its own rate with the almost unchanged look of the windows and the hypnotic looking walls.

Great perspective involved in this shot, playing on the idea that there was once human contact with the mattress, which offered a place of comfort for the patient. Years later, he or she is absent, leaving a harsh, cold look in this decaying place.

Maybe, but Byberry is across the street from the take-out beer store that's right in front of my apartment complex, a short three minute walk away.

Morbidly interesting.. Instead of seeing the interior of the Hospital, which housed mentally ill patients who were alive, we are now privy to the temporary location of a dead person. The wooden block heightens this idea greatly.

is this place worth going to i love pennhurst because theres so much stuff lying around is there alot of stuff here

the medicine room is very weird up in pennhurst theres about 15 trash bags filled with the same medicine bottles does anyone think they can get any money for them

thats pennhurst in spring city, pa thats by the beer place

Yeah, I've only seen a few, here's one http://www.opacity.us/image1989.htm.

i live not to far from dixmont and it is sad to see the demo. crew there, everyday as i go to work i drive by on route 65 and wander what it would be like now if someone had bought it and restored it for patients again.

Interesting...

Thanks! The most recent information I have about the demolition is here: http://www.opacity.us/...s_state_hospital.htm

Hey, an arm or a finger or two would be an interesting find too... ;)

Now that I think of it, at the very end of one of the wings was a group of rooms that were different than the rest, I forgot in what way, but I remember the balconies out back were sectioned off from the rest, and there was a fence around the outside edge. This could've been an area for psychiatric patients with TB...

I hate to think of what that light has seen.

I don't think i've seen a set of morgue freezers with a manufacturer name or logo on the front. Motts, have you? Just a weird observation of mine. Not that there would be a need to display a logo, I find the absence unusual nonetheless.