3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

I bicycled past the old "E" buildings when I was a freshman in High School, and decided to check them out with a few friends. I graduated High School in 1986. That makes it 23 years really.

Awesome link to Thomas Jefferson University's Online Library. Pics of Byberry from roughly 1936-1945 if anyone is interested. It's creepy to see how alive this place once was.

http://xvm11.jefferson.edu...st_set_var=2605

Damn! You've been doing this for 20 years! Wow!

How long ago had this wing been closed? Even before the 80s'?

Best picture in the whole bunch! I'm no photographer, but for me looking at this picture nothing really sums up Byberry's decline and decay as simply as this. It made me think real deeply....this had once been a place teeming with life.

They must have really kept these people doped up all the time. I don't imagine they did much psychotherapy in those days.

I'd put my money on N-10, I believe it's the only one with the curved hallway crossing the back section. That, and the exit signs that stick out from the wall rather than flush-mounted. Byberry is definately a unique place. I hope it stands for years to come.

It's th only "real" graffitti I've ever done.
I usually disdain this sort of behavior.

Well...she's certainly lost her head!

This appears to be a hallway in one of the three "N" buildings, on the ground floor. Possibly N-10 because it's in such good shape. It could be one of the othetr "N"s, but on the far side of the main entrances. The farther you go from the sides closest to Bensalem, the better the buildings appear.

The only vagrants I've ever seen in my more-than-20 years of byberry exploration have been friends of mine or young explorers I've never met. No bums, really. Others say they spotted them now and again but not me. I've seen remnants of the homeless there, but they were always long gone.

Sweeeet.

Ed, is there a remote poss. that there are some stray vagrants in the warmer months?

In which building was this?

Gotta hand it to you guyz! Couldn't get me into that water for a million $$$$$$. No telling what's in it.