505 Comments for Dever State School

Unfortunately, vandals so destroyed this place and set several fires that all of the buildings have been demolished as of 2014. It's a shame many can't explore without destroying these places. I toured this one on many occasions, found the operating room, morgue, bowling alley, etc. I worked here typing medical reports in the 70's, there were entire families housed here.

One of the reasons this place is shut down is because the population of down syndrome people has plumited due to testing that's available for it during pregnancy. Today 95% of down syndrome pregnancies end in abortion.

It's still legal and open to walk the grounds now, and always has been. they don't want you in the construction area, but if they see you, they will just ask if you remain behind the fence where the work is being done. Even still, they don't really care what you do, as long as you don't cause fires

Yes Ben I went today with friends, it's practically destroyed barely any history I could find

Went to Paul dever tonight with a couple friends, the ruins are terrible in 2014 I go to explore history there's barely anything to explore it seems

can you hear yourselves? I had family there...

I been all through this place its wicked creepy I've heard noises I think a paranormal expert should go through it the tunnels r crazy its sketchy but I lived it

Plus, the military buildings were torn down before the grounds became a school. So, no these are not the exact military buildings...BTW. It only takes a minute to actually READ about the history.

I think Lynn takes these comments personally, like an attack on her or her grandmother. They are not. Yes, some comments are assumed and ignorant, flippant or funny, just because the comment section on this site is like an open forum.
However, I am sure that for the most part, the school was infact a good school since it was open for so long and had plenty of patients and staff working there who cared about eachother, etc. but unfortunately, like anywhere in the world, with human nature comes corruption of some sort...even in the best of places. This is not saying it happened all the time, to everyone, by everyone...of course not. Though it is very ignorant to believe that nothing bad ever happened.

I think "Can't disclose" is full of s*it, honestly. "Attention, please someone give me attention!"...seems to be more their modus operandi.

As for the shower windows. They are pretty high up in congruence to the height of the showerheads. I think if you were standing outside, looking into the showers, unless you were right up against the glass, which would be pretty obvious as to what you were doing, then only the heads and shoulders of the ones taking a shower would be seen.
Don't ya think? :)

My boss used to work at the Dever school (70's maybe?)
going to show him these shots tomorrow....

@ caroline...

google 'the judge rotenburg center'

i work there

No, it was abandoned years ago. I was there last year and the doors to most of the buildings were open so I got the tour from some ppl I was working with that day

yea went there a day ago and took about 73 pictures of the place found the hospital the bowling alley bullet shells ect. this place is nuts i know f***ed up stuff happened there but gonna go there again asap and look at everything and by the way they took the security away in 2012 so dont worry bout those people but police do trainings on the weekends at the armary place. good luck and hace fun.

Anybody still on this website?