3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

looks like a bed...now im sleepy.

i dare not ask what's back behind the curtain...looks like darkness...

how in the crap did they reach up there to make the lion?

woww my teacher from 7th grade had a chair like this in the classroom.

mm y should we belive this

We need more places like Byberry. These people were abused but not in the 70's and 80's. Now they are homeless and the City is overrun by their disease, problems and crimes all due to their "Civil Rights". Now it costs the City a Fortune trying to deal with these crazy homeless people and good citizens are in danger.

I've fallen, and I can't get up!!

My Grandfather owned a funeral home....didn't like the taste of wet @ all !

Scarey looks like a ghost

Also the entire hallway and all areas surrounding were all concrete structures, no plaster or Drywall. BTW Drywall was not around in 1900-1910 when this place was built

First I love how you captured this.
There were alot of boxes full of poly-styrene clam shells for food. Boxes and boxes full all up and down the walls in the hall. We were destroying a bunch of paint cans the idiots were using to tag everwhere and we as stupid kids decided to blow up the cans with a small fire and a BB gun. Well it became an inferno rapidly. The people involved all felt horrible, we saw byberry as our home, and from then on never damaged a thing..

Radical Ed - your commentary throughout has been like a cool cloth on a hot day. Refreshng, soothing and always welcome. With your native expertise and Mott's photography it's been a little slice of The Berry.

My friends and I used to explore the Byberry buildings many times in the late 70s. The only things we saw there were lots of broken glass, crumpled walls and ceilings along with a ton of dangerous asbestos.

i would love to visit the asylum wish it was still there the picture is great picture it everyone all of us standing in there

its very inviting to sleep looks comfy