What a wonderful discovery and kinda creepy, too. The debris, straggling wires, etc., make it look like something/someone busted out, not in.

Looks like something from 'the wall'!

The nurses staion looks like a scene in one flew over the coo coos nest.

I love it.

Still don't know what this is but i found a vid on youtube titled Consonno La città dei balocchi. Something very similar shows up at the 0:36 mark.

Danke.

The beautiful, jewel-like aspect of many of the photographs in this series was especially appealing. And thank you, sir, for often taking the time to leave informative comments about the pics you take and the sites you visit. I LIKE having my curiosity assuaged. Excellent gallery.

Black bricks + white mortar = recipe for disaster. Those were some mighty brave brick masons. Master craftsmen? The uniformity of the mortar joints is amazing.

The premier gallery on the whole site; that's saying a lot. And not a morgue anywhere, but I didn't even miss it. Just beautiful picture after beautiful picture. 'Twas most satisfying.

Noob here. Don't know if I can post a link, so I'll do it the long way. On page 34 of the January 5, 1942 issue of LIFE magazine [if anyone wants to look], there's a picture of a contraption that might be similar to what Claudia and old Lpn have described. It's in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

Looks like the bed's made a track of its own. Probably trying to get out of the wheelchair's way.

It was used for a dining room until it closed!

There was no room 666 at this site. I worked at [name removed] for years. The number above the door is 307! The 6s are fake....

I worked there in the eighties, happy times sad to see it like this.Lovely lake and grounds.RIP st margarets

I remember many hours spent in that room! I was in the graduating class of 1973. We lived in "Home 69", ...the co-ed dorm! I remember parking in the circle, walking thru the grounds, working on the wards, etc. We were the first class to wear the new uniforms...how we hated them! Got a great education.

Shallow

Well, I've spent the afternoon viewing photos and reading comments, thank you lynne. Today ,my sister and I visited the hill for the first time since our childhood. We never wanted to go back there. Wished we visited sooner. It is so very different now. Our father spent most of our growing up years at Hamp. We would visit him on tuesday in the day room. Many years we couldn't even visit him. That photo brought back memories. Some of the comments were heartfelt, others empty, ugly.. thank you Mott for these photos. I am going to researcdh photos taken in the 50's , when I used to visit my Dad.

These were fire escapes built in the 1977, the original fire escapes were just tubes that the residents and employees slid down.

Thnak you dme, Pennhurst was a drop off point for unwanted children.There was a girl placed ther in the 1920's because she was orphaned and could only speak Russian.

I worked in these buildings from 1975 to 1988, when the grounds were kept up and it was more like a sprawling estate in it's heyday.

Great photo's, great shame its being demolished, anyone watching Most Haunted there?

Absolutely brilliant photographs-I explored the place 20 years ago, but never had a camera with me!! Usually there with friends just scaring each other-What a tremendous loss-can't believe they demoed it!! Very sad!
Thanks so much for capturing history!!

Sad that Diane Odell, the longest survivor living in an iron lung pass away this year due to power failure, very tragic, my condolences to her family. Only if you have been in one to realize what it was like for her all her life. Myasthenia gravis affected my chest and lung muscles to contract so I had to spend several years in one . Luckily for me my muscles regain mobility and I got my freedom back.

It is actually an old fashion orthopedic surgery table with traction, good for spine surgery. It was also used in full body casting. I have seen a similar table in the present day.

There are no words to descobe the way it looked back then.