622 Comments for Henryton State Hospital

This is the same shade of blue in my daughters room...love it!

I seriously LOVE the titles to your photographs...

Patients stricken with TB had to remain isolated within the hospital complex for months or even years to prevent spreading the disease, creating a kind of institutional lifestyle. Entertainment was an important way to relieve these stresses of being "cooped-up" too long, so movies, plays, music, and games were circulated well throughout the hospital (remember too that television was still in infancy when these buildings were constructed).

The same thinking applies to the old psychiatric hospitals, although focus might lean more on the therapeutic values of entertainment.

Wow- the contrasting colors are amazing...it almost looks like an funhouse...

Makes me think of the movie Labryinth when the little guy comes up and lifts the paver Sara drew on with her lipstick and turns it around.

yucky!

ohhh so pretty

The strains become drug resistant when patients who are being treated don't take their meds properly, skipping doses and not keeping a constant level of the meds at all times. You are on treatment for 6 months when you take isoniazid. If you miss a day or two the infection can begin to return and then when you start taking them again it's a tougher strain because it's changing to learn to live even with low does of meds in your system. Did a lot of research on this when my husband had to take isoniazid before he could start an injectable treatment for his RA.

I thought the same thing AD Nilsen!! very cool pic

Was someone using those toilet seats to play horseshoes perhaps??

I've seen that green color before at an old mental hospital near where I live in California. Very interesting color.

I second that!! WALLPAPER Please!!

I want this sink!! This lady was selling one just like this from her yard for like $50 or more. I've seen these types of sinks in many old hospitals. Did you try to pick it up Motts?

Why would a state hospital have a theater?

I'd like to think the white is peeling away to reveal the pretty blue color. A wonderful photo, Mr. Motts. Your site made me ask my mom about the days when she worked in a sanitarium. She didn't have too many freaky stories, though. :(