4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

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What building was this in? If this is Penn Hall, then this is where the staff lived. This might explain the more private conditions in the bathrooms. In most of the living quarters there were just communal showers with no covers.
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That table at the back was probably a diaper changing station. Some of these patients wore diapers because they weren't toilet trained.
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The hospital building was built up of 6 wings, labeled A-F. Wings E&F are one story buildings that look like they don't fit in with the rest of the buildings. Wing C is currently sealed off and condemned.
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This institution was built after the abolition of slavery. But the patients did most of the work here. They worked in the farms, in the greenhouses, in the kitchen...they even helped the doctors in the operating room!
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@Kathleen Fletcher
I'm sorry about all the atrocities your brother endured there. But I can't find any record of a Petersburg Training School in Petersburg, VA. Is there another name for it?
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These are the steps in the Administration Building.
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Luckily we got to see it here.
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Lucky you Pookie! I live too far so I didn't go here.
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I tried to register to your rss feed, but there was a error appending it to google right ascension
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this is sooo pretty
i love old places like this :)
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Ummmm...Ghost Hunters is on SciFi, not the travel channel...
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if anyone has any old medical records or interesting facts or stories (stories would be nice) from/about this place, please email me at amywalawala@yahoo.com
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please how can i find service manual piker x-ray
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Amazing shot. Wonder what would happen if you sat down on it .. or perhaps I don't want to know ..

It really makes you think about decay and time. The desk I'm sitting at will eventually crumble. The legs on the chair (!) I'm sitting on will rust. The homework next to me will soften and turn yellow. I too, will decay.
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I went to the haunted house attraction there and it is so demeaning to all of the people who suffered there. I thought atleast they would have given us some history, but I gueess that was mistaken