3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

you guys are sick. i know this all seems like fun and games to you, but on saturday a good friend of mine, David Brown got seriously hurt working at byberry as a building inspector. A 1000 pound wall fell on him and he's lucky he wasn't killed. his legs are shattered and hes going to be in the hospital for months. because of this building his life is changed forever. i guess you guys will never learn ? wasn't it enought that someone got killed there last year? your pathetic.

Moreover, I hate to say it, but this place is almost certainly well beyond repair, even if anyone did have any use for it. And even when there is money invested and even when the site in question isn't nearly as decrepit - take, for instance, the Richardson Complex in Buffalo, which has $1 million allocated towards restoration, yet which, so far, has nothing more than a stupid fence to show for it.

Often times, it seems that the mold and decay isn't nearly as damaging as human depredations. Even if floors and walls are slowly falling apart, it still tends to be a fairly slow process and, as it at least a natural form of destruction, it creates an aesthetic that willfull, wanton vandalism lacks. Not to mention that the vandalism tends to result in us simply loosing the equipment and fixtures that would bring this place to life better.

I'm pretty sure that this is the security room (seen in the previous picture; if you look closely, I think the broken glass is visible in the far end of the earlier picture). A patient's cell wouldn't have had so much glass, which could easily be turned into a weapon.

Does anyone know if these sorts of security booths were common to asylums? Or did Byberry just have a significant amount of psychopathic patients (and/or paranoid staff personnel)? I think that this is the first such one I've ever seen.

It sad to see how many people have so little respect for these places; the pentagram, in particular, looks like the handiwork of some teen trying to be evil/rebellious/scary. Though it does also make me glad that my local abandoned hospital seems to be very well guarded, by comparison.

I think I should come here to jam out, I will bring some loud amps..

Byberry fascinates me. I don't know why... I was in there 1 time. SpookY place. There's definately an asbestos issue within the entire complex... I agree with Figusmakem though, "A mother that cares" you need to hit that "X" at the top of your window. You only have to look at what you want to. Noone's puting a gun to your head to visit opaicty.us...

As for the Photo above, where are those balconys ? Are they visible from the BlvD ?

hmmm... all this needs is a silhouette of big man standing at the end of the hallway.

Motts... you could easily sell a pictorial of Byberry for publication. National Geographic and Life photographers have nothing on you.

ive been in there-and you really get a spine-tingling feeling-especily in the morgue in other words HELL!

even though its a set of doors, it looks like a pair of vacant eyes in those circles

Great song ~me I can see it being performed in this room. I think if I were to see that everything else would pale in comparison.

Nurse Ratchet is always watching

I LOVE IT!!!!

I'm thinking granite countertops, stainless steel sink, it'll be good as new!

I wanna check this place out, but I'll never manage to get up that way before it's taken down. Nice pic.