4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

So I go check out one of the older buildings on ground this week, and what do I find? A room with two wooden steps built up to the window so's you can leave the building and get out onto the fire escape. =8-o

OK, silk, you made me do my homework. :-) I went over to several of the older buildings this week (built 1912 and 1914) and found the rooms with the radiators on the ceilings. Turns out that the only rooms that had radiators up high were the shower rooms. Everywhere else the radiators were on the floor and covered with added on screen protectors like we see at many of the sites here. I asked the director of Quality Assurance and he said that this was a building code when they used to use radiators (we have steam heat now but it is routed differently so that the floors are heated directly - don't ask me - I don't know what that means or how it works). He said any room with a bathtub or shower had to have the radiator up high - either toward the ceiling or actually on the ceiling. I will try to get back to one of the buildings in the next several weeks and take a few pix of the radiators built into the ceiling. They are built so they can be placed flush with the ceiling and they are MOST kewl. :-)

Mmmmmmmmmmm

I went to pennhurst a bout 2 years ago and seeing this picture pretty much freaked me out cuz i remember being in that same exact room. Beautiful shot, plain beautiful

Underneath them are the tunnels connecting all the buildings together, and they provide some wheelchair access across the campus.

Sinister1, no many of the doors were left open.

That would be a reference to me.

I'm sure studies have been conducted with responses to living in different colored surroundings, although I'm not familiar with them.

Most of the old psychiatric hospital bedrooms I have seen were painted with bright and vibrant yellows, greens, blues and reds; the newer facilities seem to be mostly off white and neutral tones. They are never dark or drab.

If I remember reading about hospitals and my one friend I know went to a psych ward, they said she was locked in a pink room. Pink is supposed to help calm people?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&q=define:LIFE+SAFETY+CODE

silk, if it was like the place I work now, each building was built in a different year, and many in differing decades. Our buildings were built between 1914 and 1985 or so, and many of the buildings have had additions and renovations made to them over the years. As well, every several years the Life Safety Code changes, so that what is acceptable when renovating a building this year may no longer be allowed next year. So we have a lot of buildings cobbled together with different devices, equipment, and codes.

But that's just a guess about how they did it at Pennhurst. :-)

Lynne,
Here's a thought, if safety was the issue, then wouldnt they have put all radiators high up? Since they didn't do that, then I doubt that is the reason, I mean why be safe in one bathroom, and not another? Pennhurst is a puzzle for sure.

I guess only Motts can answer that one then...

The only one that is rational explanation is a double exposure.
Otherwise we are looking at true paranormal activity captured on this picture.

What is the "Picture Taker"?

Why all the elevated pathways?