4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

why do they call it dead

It was snowing on the day of this shoot :-)

Has any one retrieved the binder yet if so could the e-mail me some copies...Also their should be records of lobotomies somewhere...
also through some of my other research I discover through early death records that in Pennhurst first years of existence, all the deaths that occurred in young men and women in their teens and twenties. It just seemed odd to me that a otherwise healthy 16 year old male was able to live 16 years at home with no real treatment or special care other than what his parents were able to give,but yet when taken to a, at the time state of the art hospital/school that specializes specifically in these conditions to get the best possible care available at the time, and with in a few months hes dead. I guess what I'm saying is I don't understand why it took 60 years before anybody ever did any type of investigation as obvious as the abuse was.
If anybody could help me out with good copies of any other records of interest, disciplinary actions or any other interesting photos and stories I would greatly appreciate it my e-mail is hooverjamie@rocketmail.com

saw a story about Pennhurst on the travel channel and got me interested. Sad to hear about all the torture. but might i say you have some awsome pics here. kinda transports you to the time when every thing was alive. there is a place kind of like pennhurst where i live in Ky. (Waverly HIlls Sanatorium) Very Very creepy place. and very haunted.

have you ever photgraphed this place with snow cover?

how much security is there can you just walk in??

i wachted a movie about this pennhurts Insane Asylum and the treated them bad like raped and shocked them and did alot of horrible stufff anyways am try to find that movie about it i want to show it to my boy friend

????whats with the white face in the window to the right

bahahahahahaha

beautifully nightmare-ish :)

Maybe this isnt an ordinary restroom but a practice one for physical therapy. The shower to help teach patients to wash themselves and the stairs to help patients relearn how to walk up them and build strength.

...perhaps.....

scary!!!!

I love it!

Like someone up thread said, pink for girls, blue for boys is a 1950 and after thing. I'm an old building geek and Victorian designers used to favor pink for bathrooms, because it was the lightest "warm" cold.

Was this on the ground floor? I'd assume the stairs up to the window were a fire excape for people who couldn't climb well: a couple staff go out first (after all, they'd hardly be able to evactuate themselves) and others get the patients to go up and through to be lifted down.

that really is lovely. Look how the building just blends in with the undergrowth, both reddish-brown and the cream-colored trim... lovely