3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

this table was actually the loading counter for the dishwasher, the table is upside down, the hole in it was for scraping the dishes, a trash can would have been under it. Believe me I have done dishwashing for many years.

I highly doubt it, but it might still be there. If it is, it won't be there for much longer.

that place aint scary at all i have been there so many times

is the morgue still there???

Just hope whoever did all that wasn't the patients ..... LOL

It looks like two women enduring a great conversation. :) sitting on a bench or something ... we're looking at their backs ...

ALL your pictures are great or even better than great ... BUT ... this one terrifies me ... even more than the doll one from the other place you went. !!!

Nope ... I don't like it!!! :(

Speaking of Smiley, when I was a teenager I worked at nearby Neshaminy Mall. There was a guy who'd allegedly been an inmate who frequently wandered around in the mall with a ski cap and a headphone radio. If you caught eye contact, he'd give you a big goofy smile and a slow wave and go back to looking through the trashcans in the middle of the mall. We all called him Smiley. It was sad.

Either way that chair is MANGLED!

that tank if broken will blow through a cement wall and keep going till it ran out of preassure

It fell.. when they demolished the building it was hanging in.

vandals have destroyed this place and it is a shame. Architecture and workmanship like this is no longer found. Too bad. It would have made a great tourist attraction. Damn kids.

I grew up in the Frankford section of Philly, and when I was about 10 years old, I was in an accordian band that played a Christmas concert in the big auditorium. I have not been back to Phila. for over 30 years, and its quite a shock to see what happened to Byberry. Where does Philadelphia send mental patients today?

thats goin to fall any day now!!