Dayroom

Are those paintings on the walls?

what a strangely set up room, why were sections corodoned off like that?

These half-walls are called "pony walls" and are now illegal according to the new Life Safety Code for institutions (fire code problems). They were used to partition off the room into smaller sections so you could still see what was going on in the rest of the room but you could still section them off for separate activities. They used to do something similar in public schools in the late 70s through 80s until they realized that the ability to see and hear everything going on in the rest of the room was distracting to just about everyone involved and pure hell for the ADHD kids.

Lynne, thanks very much : )

Never came into your mind that these place must be haunted??

Lynne being ADHD im sure i would have gone insane...it reminds me of a cheesey rat race and you never win any cheese

i've been into the parts of pilgrim state that kids break into the freakiest stuff i have even seen in my life..

weird....so children were in the institution as well..im learning...

Theirs nothing haunting about the building, i actually walked through out one of the abandoned buildings( the one with the 2 big trees by the door) with some friends and the only haunting thing inside was the police officer who arrested us for tresspassing. But yeah you should definitely check it out from the outside at night , its freaky

I remember when they put these on our ward. I worked the Deaf/Blind Geriatric unit in Bldg.#28..What a Joke that was!

Growing up I spent 2 years in a school that had "pony walls". The school also has one great big room in the center and every class room connected to this room and the connecting wall was a pony wall. Very distracting being able to hear all the class rooms. The pony walls where high enough so that students who where properly seated couldn't see into the other classrooms. A few times durring the day one classroom would make a loud noise and everyone in the entire school would stand up like little gophers. Followed by teachers trying to reign thier classes back under control.

Dumbest design for a school I had ever been in.

Lol, me and my friends yesterday destroyed half of the window panes on the left fo this room yesterday. Also, inside that room with the 3 windows, we did a bunch of stuff..it was good to release yourself.

Andrew, little darlin', I have a much better idea on ways y'all can "release yourselves" . . . . . . . . .

Andrew, I hope you and your little friends get caught soon.

Andrew, I should step on your neck...

Andrew people like you and your friends are despicable. I have no use for low life scum like you and your friends. Its people like you that me and my other Fire Fighter/EMT friends have to go and rescue because you thought it was cute to destroy a place like this and got hurt in the process. I can tell you one thing sonny if you ever come to my district and needed help you would get it, but not as good as care as if it were someone else that was just there looking around or taking pictures.
I do believe a fare punishment for you and your friends would be to get servilely sliced by the glass you decided to break, and be caught by the police.
Like I said in one of my other posts. How would you like it if someone came to your house and decided to bust out all your windows just to release them self's?

Andrew, it doesn't matter if the facility is abandoned; you have no right to trash it more than it has already been. Urban explorers may invade these places, but they should cause no harm while there. Damaging the buildings merely increases the likelihood that they will be torn down instead of restored. Breaking windows lets in even more water, which it should be obvious is not beneficial to the structure.

The damage has been done. There's no way to un-do it. I would like to see what this room looks like now after it was 'andrewized'

Wow you people are weird. I really dont care what you say. It wasnt even my idea to smash the window panes..it was another person..i jus did it to try it. I also dont think the place should be restored, it is how it is, and what water, its on the third floor and has iron bars on it.

You people are obsessive about these places, just take your pictures and shut up, big deal.

Dear Andrew,
It wasent my idea to kill someone, I did it just to try it. People would like to restore old buildings to save from tearing down forests to put new trees, to save some land for the animals and wildlife to not see a wallmart everytime they turn around.
When you die, at your funeral I hope the preacher man says, "you people are obsessive over this worthless dead dude, just lay your flowers and stop crying."

I don't see how anyone could not have the respect for these places.

You'd be surprised. There are people out there who would love to forget that we had places like this, let alone the patients who lived in them.
IF we took the time to look, learn, and appreciate what went on in these buildings, we could learn more and progess in care.
Rather than to disrespect, and allow the care to stop. The disrespect that someone shows for old buildings, only shows that they have no respect or undestanding of the past.
Grafitti aside.
What I mean, is arson, broken windows, and stealing things from buildings like this.
An arsonist, will burn bridges in life until they lead a lonely existance.
Someone who smashes, has no care for another's belongings, until one of theirs gets broken.
A theif, will never appreciate how hard it is to work for what they really want. For them it's the easy way.
Someone who fails to show respect, will never know respect.
And someone who just goes along because their friends all do it... Will have a hard time being a leader.
At least these are the observations I have made in my life.

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> You people are obsessive about these places, just take
> your pictures and shut up, big deal.
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You seem surprised that there are people here that are passionate about old buildings.....
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You sure you're in with the right crowd here?
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Such a convoluted series of statements. What is it that you think WE are all about, Mathue. Last time I checked we were brought together by Motts's site because of our love of old buildings. Please correct me if I am wrong!

alright, "andrew" I don't know how old you were, but I'm sure I'm not too far off my dear.
Listen, I love abandoned buildings, and I love
going inside them.
There was one, not too far from my house that
I loved to go inside.
My brothers and I always went inside when we
were younger, and as we got older it became a
place we loved.
We even fixed up rooms and made it ours.
When my oldest brother got kicked out, we all
pitched in and made the goddamn house close
to livable. All he needed was electricity and running water, we basically re-built the floors and walls.
Then one day some kids from the middle school went in and burnt down most of what we had done.
Then a few weeks later, our precious "house" we had made was,
demolished.
Please, don't do what you do. I know it's hard not to give into peer pressure, but not going along is the best thing to do.
And urban exploration, I believe should only
be done with one or two close friends with
similar interests.

Andrew .. downtown Philly needs a WalMart.. work on Independence Hall so it gets torn down..... oh, and downtown D.C. needs a WalMart too and a place with lots of parking is the White House, so with that and the Executive Office Building, see how many windows you can work on. See a therapist to find out about "release".

Thank God that abandoned buildings are "warehoused" rather than bulldozed or imploded. There are many I would love to tour myself, but I thank Motts for the photographic tour with such quality.

I also thank Motts for showing us the inside of these places. I make sick jokes about it all, but there was so much pain and suffering in these places. The history of medicine is really important. I wish our society would acknowledge it and be upfront about the mistakes of the past.
Maybe Andrew was in one of these in a past life......

I can not beleive that you would actually fess up to comtting vandalisim to a historic building,on the actual web site. in my opinion Andrew, you need too seek help, and not only did you destroy a part of history you could have gotten hurt. When you say that "we are obsessed and weird" it just goes to show me that you do not have a respect for property or other viewers on this site. maybe you should look on www.dumb ass people.com and I bet you could find something that would intrest you better.

Andrew, such a sad excuse for a human being,

Mathue, forgive my comments directed at you on 11-16. I realized when I was skimming through comments, that you were quoting Andrew. So, sorry, dude. My bad!

i just want to reply to a comment closer to the top of the page and i don't doubt that 1 of those buildings are haunted but i know for a fact that the old tower is cause a patient did escape and killed other patients and doctors and would pile them up in the tower and i'm not sure but i think he had 30 - 40 bodies in that tower by the time he was caught

"but i know for a fact that . . . a patient did escape and killed other patients and doctors and would pile them up in the tower and i'm not sure but i think he had 30 - 40 bodies in that tower by the time he was caught"

Wowza! How incredibly cool is that! You sure it wasn't more like 80 or 90 bodies?

Lynne, in actuality, the patient only killed 1 person 30 to 40 times... hehehe

alright look, i myself have smashed windows on abandoned buildings, are you gonna call me a sad excuse for a human being too? andrew broke a window pane, big deal. i'm told i'm a wonderful polite person and i'm very creative positive and talented.......but i smashed a window...so i'm SCUM? save over-generalizing for the chavs and rogues!!

Once again, such a disrespect for the past. You might be polite in person but what reason is there for destroying a relic? Just like it has been said before, when people destroy these buildings it makes it harder for people who actually appreciate things like this to do so do to stepped up security and making things more dangerous. It's pitiful that that is the only way you can have fun. GET A LIFE!

hey i smashed windows too i mean who cares itz already abandoned itz not like if were gonna destroy the whole place

Sigh . . . .

Another place that we're talking to the wall . . . . .

What wall? It's already been broken along with the windows and furniture and etc...

the only reason i can think of that someone would be able to carry out such malicious acts is they've never seen the true nature of mental illness. if you have, and you can still go through with window smashing...damn....that's all i gotta say.

do you thinks cops would let you go if you were just taking pictures? or would they still slap you with a trespassing. Night or Day?

Ive been coming to these sites only a short time. Motts, Radical Ed, GodDog, and all the others who put time in to exploring and taking pics are to be applaude. I havent been to any places like this but whould like to. Ive seen some colorful photos and comments and some serious stuff too. For everyone who takes this stuff to heart at some level my hats off to you, to all the andrews.... Im with radical Ed lets step on their necks along with other things

In reference to all the "Andrews, Jasons, and Biggs out there:

People tend to perform these type of acts in order to make themselves feel important and "big". This can either be in private or in a group in order to fit in. All are attempts to feed their ego and to abate their own insecurities. These type of activities however only lead to a short-lived "high". These particular type of actions rarely lead to the gaining of any actual respect that matters. I for one don't care how good of a person you appear to be otherwise. Apparently you are not as you do not see what is wrong with this vandalism. I hope you have gotten the little bit of attention here that you obviously can't get any other way. You certainly didn't gain any respect here.

I have respect for Motts as he expresses himself and gains attention and respect without breaking and destroying things. He leaves things as they were and yet still has managed to make his mark on the world with his wonderful pieces of photography.

This place was built with creatures like Andrew in mind! May you visit often in your dreams Andrew!

People like Andrew are the reason why people should be required to take an IQ test in order to breed. Or leave the house.

Yea, this is an older thread, but I wanted to add my 2 cents to the list.

1) Take only pictures, leave only footprints.
2) Those who fail to learn from the past, are doomed to repeat it.

ive been caught in 23..by the OMH.. we didn't get in trouble..the Cop was mad cool..and for ass holes like Andrew....THE MORE SHIT U BREAK the more the cops r going to bother people like me n my crew who just want to explore.. the only reason y the security is so tight is be cause people have to destroy state property.....

<3 Radical Ed.

Andrew, you're a silly little boy who needs to learn some respect.

people who have to trash places and break things also have a tendency to be violent; places such as Pilgrim have a lot of patients who start out like YOU. Be careful,you just might end up on the wrong side of the key.

I have a strong suspicion "Andrew", et al. made that story up to make people angry.

Good response Jo. I think Andrew needs to grow up, ALOT!!!!!

@ Jason
" i'm told i'm a wonderful polite person and i'm very creative positive and talented."

Most people's mom's lie to them, doesn't make it true.

Andrew, you're a douche bag. Why don't you head out to Camp Hero and with any luck fall through into a subbasement .

Break a neck---er, leg.

Andrew: If you continue to vandalize these places, they will be torn down and those who would like the opportunity to explore them someday, won`t be able to do that.

Please show some respect. YOU may not understand why people love to go and photograph these places. But a lot of us do and would appreciate that such history be left as is.

I only wish we had places like these where I am. Sadly, we do not. I, personally want the chance to go someday.

Great site, beautiful pics, I have been so intrigued by PS I too have taken pics (outside! Dont have the nerve to go in!!!). But these visuals are stunning,

Mom worked at KP for years, I was always terrified of it, and admittedly and sadly of the mentally ill as well. I guess I grew up hearing real horror stories and they impressed me.

As far as Andrew is concerned, I think I know him. His post was written in 2005, and if its the kid I know, he would now be 20-21. Destructive, sick, and yes, most definitely belongs on the "other side of the key" as someone stated. Sadly we sometimes forget that people who are mentally ill have very few places to turn these days and prescriptions only help so much.

Oh, heres a thought... when KP and PS closed most /all of their doors, I was told by Mom (long time KP employee until 94ish) that the state literally bussed out the patients. Loaded them on a NYC bound bus and dumped them in NYC, with pratically nothing. (Hence the high population of mentally ill homeless)... ever wonder if they try to make it back "home"? Not something I would want to run into during my urban exploration... I guess that why Ive been too chicken to go inside.

Motts, great pics, beautiful work. Stay safe.

Yeah, I just wanted to hate on Andrew. Awesome pics btw. Pilgrim State has a particuarly foul reputation.