505 Comments for Dever State School

This building is definitely not beautiful like alot of the others on this site.I guess it did serve it's purpose.I can see the draw it would have to explore it though.

Motts, you never had problems with other visitors ? (Sorry for the translation. I use a tradcutor..)

Big urns for soup. Institutions did well with soup. Soup was cost effective and didn't involve any dangerous cutlery for the patients!

Lynne, you could be an abandoned hospitals tour guide!

They left the curtains up! Very nice.

That setup looks kind of Rod Serling-esque if you ask me!

Looks like some gangsta wants you to know it's HIS abandoned dentist chair!

It probably looked friendlier with all the bunks, furniture, lighting, and amenities. On the other hand, maybe it was always a dump. You could have had really nice private rooms for the kids, but the taxpayers wouldn't want to pay!

What could you get for them? Uh, how about arrested and charged with trespassing, breaking and entering, vandalism, and theft of state property?

Feh, all function, no form. Typical architecture of the 1950s and 1960s. The ironic thing is a lot of these prefab buildings actually were not very effecient or user friendly. In a lot cases BOTH form AND function were sacrificed for CHEAP!

Was there a mirror at the end of the room on the right wall?

i love the angle!

Like Scott said, a state sponsored Peep show, I think I'd be less bothered by this picture if they had just had an aide standing at the end of the shower area to keep watch... somehow watching from those "windows" gives this a more sinister kind of voyer effect.....

This building resembles one of the Byberry Buildings ... kind of has the same design.
Even though it's ugly, it's a cool picture

I think they would need to know how to read. Kind of like the early Disney movies, I never got how they had the begining of the movies start in a make shift book with text. Most preschoolers don't know how to read, unless they are exceptional.