4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

I HAVE SEEN BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES THAT EVEN THOUGH WERE IN B+W STILL LOOKED HOMIE . LETS FACE IT FOLKS TO ME IT WOULD LOOK THE SAME IN PINK, RED, YELLOW ETC. "IT HAS THELOOK" AS THE FORMER ARTIST KNOWN AS "PRINCE" WOULD SAY..................

IT KINDA LOOKS LIKE AN EMPTY SCHOOL YARD, AFTER ALL SCHOOLS HAVE FECENCES AND CHAIRS AND BENCHES. BUT REALITY IS THE CHAIRS WERE THERE TO SIT ON BECAUSE THERE "WAS" NOTHING ELSE TO DO. JUST SIT AND SIT AND SIT.....HOW SAD

IN THIS CASE I FEEL THE MORGUE IS WERE AN ACCIDENT ENDED UP OR WORSE YET SOMEONE WHO DIDN"T WANT TO BE AN ACCIDENT AND "OOPS" BECAME ONE , IT WAS A HUMAN GARBAGE DISPOSAL, KIND OF LIKE THE ONES THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD WHEN THE "FHURER" WAS KIK IN IT WITH HIS BOYS(ss)

FOR ALL I KNOW IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE CAFETERIA, THE GYM, A WHALING WALL, OR AN EMPTY ABORTION CLINIC. NEVER SAY NEVER. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ALL 4 AND THEN SOME..................................

IT'S A VERY SAD REMINDER OF THAT MEDICINE .WAS NOT PRPAIRED FOR THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO DWELLED IN SUCH AN ABYSS OF CRUELTY, MISDIAGNOSES, AND MORE OFTEN NEGLECT. WHO ANSWERED FOR THIS INHUMAIN LIFE? THEY DID, THEY ALL DID..

ewww, what's on the walls?

oh, btw, fantastic pictures!!

i visited pennhurst when i was in highschool with a group to hold a picnic for the residents. a lot of what today we call mentally challenged kids and some adults. i had no idea what was really going on inside. none of the people holding the activity did. scary so uninformed.

its true Gabriella

This is 100% a Conn Organ, the company went under in the late 70's. these organs had a decent sound. this one is a home model. Church organist prefer to have a pedal board of 32 notes.

All of these pictures just captivate sadness, l don't know why, well, I suppose I do know why, but I mean, it's almost as if you can feel the suffer and neglect radiating off of the pictures. You take amazing pictures!!! I've always been really into Institutions, and places like this. Bravo, that's all I have to say. These are just really amazing.

the kids who wint to pennhurst must have been to hell and back.

why would people do that kind of shit,
thats just wrong

i have that same mural on my wall and im 15 yrs old

this photo makes me want to scream!! It brings back old memories from when me and my friends got lost in there. OMG never again will i go in there.