4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

The cemetery for some patients who passed away between 1918-1933 listed 39 people who lost there lives for one reason or another. There is more in other cemeteries through out the state. These being ones that had families who would take their loved ones and bury them in family plots.

Death the great equalizer. Many of our homes may look like this some day. Abandoned. Forgotten. Lost. Life is for the living.

peeling chair huh?! looks like the chair is crying along with all the patients that were there...this is so sad and overwhelming:((((

O3 would be refering to the steam room behind the locked doors in the tunnels. Those heaters in the differents rooms used to be steam and now have been switched over to gas. Also the different Letters meant different things like electricity and which wing (like Mayflower) may be letter A and residential rooms outlet 4 (A4).

All that lead paint.......

They're flux capacitors lmao... :)

What is that all overr the walls? It looks like blood.

it looks like the thing you turn by hand just below the screen that has the dots around it says "SAFETY" just to the right. and one of the dials next to that says focus so I would say it is a monitoring system of some sort for multiple channels or cameras.

Beautiful foyer. Magnificent details and woodwork. I'm intrigued by the open switch box on the wall. I would have been tempted to flip a few to see what (if anything) would happen.

now this room is really freaky...id hate to go into it at night...its bad enough during the day

i would so love to go here sometime...i saw it on Ghost Adventures and it looks freaky as hell..and im sorry ppl that go in there and vandelize the place and steal from it are just pathetic...leave the place alone and respect the ppl who died there

So many homeless people in the world and this amazing building is falling into decay. What a waste.

How old is this art work, why is the paper still white and not yellowed?

Heaven and hell depiction? Reminds me of the dutch artist ( though crudely) Heironymous Bosch

I'm of the impression that the art work was made by a patient ( some art therapy). It was so good that they hung it the administration office, they were proud of this patient's talent. The subject matter may have been a patient's experience or depicted stories this patient had heard about from family or friends or perhaps books that moved the artist.

I'm not seeing a cotton plantation; I;m not getting a feeling of sadness from the image. It looks like women doing women's work, in a congenial atmosphere, one seems to be smiling directly at the observer. Could represent a village in Africa or Italy,Greece where the women gathered to wash the clothes.

Art is subjective and always appeals to the observer's life experiences
despite an artists intentions . It invokes feelings from the observer; I guess that is what it did that necessitated a few observers to destroy it. I now wonder at the numerous artworks through the century that no one will ever see because some ancient observer had the same reaction.