4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

I made a Counter-Strike map on this! But the map is pretty poorly done. Oh well. And silkster, go to elpeecho.com and look for the Pennhurst info or whatever link.

I have often wondered why so much stuff is left behind to rot in these abandoned places. The thing that is most crazy is how many patient records are left behind...I'll never understand that.

Motts your photos are AMAZING and your comments on the pics are compassionate and insightful. An awesome body of work...many thanks!

I always wear a mask if i go in there...i live 2 minutes away and know the place well

union, floor 2 near front

Yes, I thought the same thing Motts. they looked like belonged in a factory or something.

Whoa! What building is this in !?

Theres a building here that is literaly filled with equipment, just piled in there. Anything from hydrotherapy tubs to copying machines, it's nuts.

Garth, how what abandoned houses have u been too????????? cause i saw ur name painted at the roof of essex mountain sanitourium

hey dont you know this green is supposed to be "calming"..personally it has always made me wanna hurl...lol

looks more like a medication window. Many psych hospitals and developmental centers (new millenium buzz word for this type of facility) still have them. Part of the "therapeutic" environment is for patients to present themselves to a window at certain times for their medication.

they're called "shower chairs" and are still very much in use everywhere

LEE, I was trying to be funny, in the hospital, we use them to wheel patients to the shower.

I used to have that toy on the far right

These are also used in homes & nursing homes ( etc ) though they have been updated very slightly over the years . Respectfully... I've yet to hear of one doubling as a wheelchair.

They're not for wheeling a patient off in... they're for wheeling TO a patient who has a hard time getting around.

How very sad. I think the pit of oblivion=depression