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April 25th, 2010, 06:53 AM
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Pennhurst
One of the worst, most notorious facilities in the US as revealed in a famous 1968 investigative report. Pennhurst was a state school for developmentally disabled children outside of Philadelphia. The abuse and overcrowding became rampant and the school was eventually shut down. The campus sits eerily untouched as it awaits its fate. image hosted on flickr  51e@flickr image hosted on flickr  105edit by rollercoaster1122, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  Pennhurst State School & Hospital 2006. by porc3laind0ll, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  51e@flickr image hosted on flickr  Pennhurst by cmedek, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  Pennhurst State School & Hospital 2008.. by porc3laind0ll, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  Pennhurst State School & Hospital 2008. by porc3laind0ll, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  Pennhurst State School & Hospital 2008. by porc3laind0ll, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  HRPC 2008. by porc3laind0ll, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  alicemariedesign@flickr image hosted on flickr  alicemariedesign@flickr image hosted on flickr  daniellewilmer@flickr image hosted on flickr  daniellewilmer@flickr image hosted on flickr  51e@flickr image hosted on flickr  51e@flickr image hosted on flickr  Untitled by julibuli photography, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  51e@flickr image hosted on flickr  51e@flickr image hosted on flickr  51e@flickr image hosted on flickr  Pennhurst State School & Hospital 2008. by porc3laind0ll, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  Untitled by julibuli photography, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  Untitled by julibuli photography, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  napalm filled tires@flickr image hosted on flickr  lissyssil@flickr image hosted on flickr  Pennhurst State School & Hospital 2008. by porc3laind0ll, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  ECH 2007. by porc3laind0ll, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  treekins@flickr image hosted on flickr  Tiny Little Drawers III by treekins, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  Scene From a Troubled Childhood by treekins, on Flickr  deviantart.net image hosted on flickr  I didn't care for the seating arrangements by julibuli photography, on Flickr Last edited by desertpunk; May 9th, 2012 at 11:53 AM. |
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April 26th, 2010, 02:44 PM
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Pilgrim State Hospital -The Beast
Built in the 1920's to end overcrowding among New York State's numerous mental institutions, Pilgrim State Hospital itself became overcrowded. At one time housing over 16,000 patients, it was the largest mental hospital in the world. Decades later, it still houses patients, albeit far fewer and many of the buildings on its campus have been demolished while others await possible redevelopment. image hosted on flickr  Electro-Shock Therapy 1940's by akajimmypicard, on Flickr  opacity.us image hosted on flickr  Pilgrim State Hospital by AeroFennec, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  urbandecay.@flickr image hosted on flickr  Lambros89@flickr image hosted on flickr  Lambros89@flickr image hosted on flickr  Pilgrim State Hospital by AeroFennec, on Flickr image hosted on flickr  urbandecay.@flickr image hosted on flickr  urbandecay.@flickr image hosted on flickr  urbandecay.@flickr image hosted on flickr  earthmagnified@flickr image hosted on flickr  explore the ruins@flickr  opacity.us image hosted on flickr  bolt throwerAD@flickr image hosted on flickr  Lambros89@flickr image hosted on flickr  Lambros89@flickr image hosted on flickr  earthmagnified@flickr image hosted on flickr  Lambros89@flickr  opacity.us image hosted on flickr  Lambros89@flickr image hosted on flickr  Pilgrim State Hospital by AeroFennec, on Flickr Last edited by desertpunk; May 9th, 2012 at 12:07 PM. |
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April 28th, 2010, 04:30 PM
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Foxboro State Hospital
This asylum began its life as a "Home For Dypsomaniacs and Inebriates" in Massachusetts. It later housed psychiatric patients until it finally closed in the 1970s. It has been fully renovated as a residential development.  opacity.us image hosted on flickr  jps246@flickr image hosted on flickr  tweekcr@flickr image hosted on flickr  EPRA photography@flickr image hosted on flickr  observationpost@flickr image hosted on flickr  observationpost@flickr image hosted on flickr  observationpost@flickr image hosted on flickr  observationpost@flickr image hosted on flickr  Rana X.@flickr image hosted on flickr  Rana X.@flickr image hosted on flickr  brianpcurran@flickr image hosted on flickr  brianpcurran@flickr image hosted on flickr  EPRA Photography@flickr  opacity.us  opacity.us image hosted on flickr  EPRA Photography@flickr Last edited by desertpunk; May 9th, 2012 at 12:14 PM. |
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April 30th, 2010, 07:45 AM
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What is that on the stairs ? ? Looks like a demon skull face. Creepay. Especially downstairs here alone at about 1:45 in the morning.
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May 1st, 2010, 01:11 AM
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May 1st, 2010, 01:49 AM
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Gaebler Children's Center
Located on the grounds of Metropolitan State Hospital in massachusetts, The Gaebler Hospital was established to house and treat severely developmentally disabled children. It became known for overcrowding and neglect and was finally closed in 1991. image hosted on flickr  kris damico@flickr image hosted on flickr  zachatach@flickr image hosted on flickr  zachatach@flickr image hosted on flickr  Christina Welsh@flickr image hosted on flickr  Christina Welsh@flickr  opacity.us  opacity.us  lost in time.com image hosted on flickr  Doctor Swan@flickr image hosted on flickr  helium heels@flickr image hosted on flickr  helium heels@flickr  opacity.us image hosted on flickr  Christina Welsh@flickr image hosted on flickr  helium heels@flickr Last edited by desertpunk; May 9th, 2012 at 12:15 PM. |
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May 1st, 2010, 02:36 AM
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The Belchertown State School
Located in Belchertown Massachusetts, this school was a horror movie of abuse and neglect. Severely retarded children were often left to die by uncaring staff. The notoriety finally caught up with it and the facility was shut down in the 1970s. image hosted on flickr  iamtheh's@flickr image hosted on flickr  iamtheh's@flickr image hosted on flickr  missdoo@flickr image hosted on flickr  missdoo@flickr image hosted on flickr  missdoo@flickr image hosted on flickr  neal fassnacht@flickr image hosted on flickr  aspotintheskyy@flickr image hosted on flickr  aspotintheskyy@flickr image hosted on flickr  bmurtaugh@flickr image hosted on flickr  bmurtaugh@flickr image hosted on flickr  bmurtaugh@flickr image hosted on flickr  helium heels@flickr image hosted on flickr  kate broderick@flickr image hosted on flickr  kate broderick@flickr image hosted on flickr  kate broderick@flickr image hosted on flickr  neal fassnacht@flickr Last edited by desertpunk; May 9th, 2012 at 12:16 PM. |
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May 1st, 2010, 03:38 PM
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May 3rd, 2010, 05:28 AM
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I noticed that just before the ghost!
So where's Kings Park?
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May 3rd, 2010, 03:36 PM
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 King's Park Psychiatric Center One of the major psychiatric hospitals built to ease congestion in New York States mental health system, King's Park began as King's Park Lunatic Asylum in 1885. Its vast property included farms and quarters for tubercular patients as well as war veterans. After WWI, the hospital began an earnest expansion that took its patient count to over 9,000 before new treatments and cost cutting led to its eventual emptying out and closure in 1996. The site rests as a huge but expensive plum for a developer willing to pay for asbestos removal. image hosted on flickr  Evenshift///3@flickr image hosted on flickr  KPHistorian@flickr  robot with a heart.com image hosted on flickr  Max-Zip2@flickr image hosted on flickr  Todd Kempf@flickr image hosted on flickr  D.P.Rubino@flickr image hosted on flickr  Max-Zip2@flickr image hosted on flickr  Stephen DiFalco@flickr image hosted on flickr  Max-Zip2@flickr image hosted on flickr  Max-Zip2@flickr image hosted on flickr  Michelle Reiss@flickr image hosted on flickr  bk schnitz@flickr image hosted on flickr  Max-Zip2@flickr image hosted on flickr  John Guerriero@flickr image hosted on flickr  sing as static@flickr image hosted on flickr  chad davis@flickr image hosted on flickr  chad davis@flickr image hosted on flickr  chad davis@flickr  opacity.us image hosted on flickr  D.P.Rubino@flickr image hosted on flickr  Pom2@flickr image hosted on flickr  chobacabra@flickr  opacity.us Last edited by desertpunk; May 9th, 2012 at 12:17 PM. |
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May 5th, 2010, 02:13 AM
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I've never seen a lot of those pics. Excellent, thanks.
Pretty much forgotten. This hospital was adjacent to the Pilgrim complex on the southwest corner. Edgewood State Hospital (Deer Park), built in the '40s and closed in 1971. Mercilessly set upon by vandals for the next two decades, it was finally demolished in 1989 because it became too dangerous. Most of the top burned, and there were open elevator shafts by then. 
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May 5th, 2010, 07:02 AM
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Edgewood was built for war veterans mainly but after Community Mental Health became law in 1963, these hospitals began discharging patients and consolidating the remaining ones in fewer places. Pilgim got most of them but even their huge campus was largely abandoned. The estimated cost for abating asbestos at King's Park is over $80 million so anyone paying that kind of money would have to build a lot at that site to recoup and apparently ( you would know better than me ) the area residents don't want anything big there. It's a stalemate.
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May 5th, 2010, 07:40 AM
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From what I'm reading, Edgewood became Pilgrim's tuberculosis ward, essentially.
I found Kings Park in 2003 when I accidently drove off Route 25A. It spurred me to start an asylum thread on SSP actually, and I drove out to the Pilgrim site with all of its Dresden-like grounds (still an exit on the Sagtikos Parkway). The main tower that's still in use looked a lot more forbidding before the renovation. Easily seen from the expressway, it was a definite childhood memory driving past this place with its creepy looking structures, incinerator. The area is planned as a mini-city (Heartland Town Center). High density with several 20-story residential buildings, sports, retail complex. Approved, but the process involving environmental impact studies is always extremely slow on LI. Not to mention still mountains of brick and debris on the site with many other abandoned buildings.
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May 5th, 2010, 04:38 PM
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May 5th, 2010, 07:36 PM
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Worcester State Hospital
located on a bluff above Worceter Massachusetts, this grand old Kirkbride asylum was built at the site of Massachusetts's first asylum the Worcester Lunatic asylum which opened in 1833. The newer Kirkbride began in 1870 and served until its closure in 1991 when an enormous fire engulfed much of the structure. A mid-20th century building continued operation. Much of the original kirkbride has been demolished and the clocktower portion is being redeveloped.  image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/7989313@N07/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/newenglandoddities/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradpitcher/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradpitcher/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradpitcher/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradpitcher/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradpitcher/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/systemx29photography/  opacity.us  opacity.us  opacity.us image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickinglis/ Last edited by desertpunk; May 9th, 2012 at 12:18 PM. |
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May 8th, 2010, 07:12 AM
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Carving Station Bonus!
From the Old St. Elizabeth's Hospital Washington D.C. which has been replaced by a massive new facility. 
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May 16th, 2010, 08:08 PM
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Oregon State Hospital
Known as the location where One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest was filmed, the Oregon State Lunatic Asylum is the oldest asylum in the Western US. Now renamed, the hospital peaked in the late 1950s and has slowly declined but portions of it still house patients. Allegations of abuse and atrocious conditions persist to this day. Urns containing the ashes of unclaimed patients still remain there to this day. image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/9681449@N05/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/9681449@N05/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoinference/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoinference/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/31201575@N02/ image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoinference/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoinference/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoinference/ image hosted on flickr  http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoinference/ Last edited by desertpunk; May 9th, 2012 at 12:19 PM. |
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May 19th, 2010, 07:17 PM
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Great thread!!!
When I lived in Oregon and I have been told that Oregon State Hospital was the largest mental institute in the world (I don't know if that is true). Many times my friends and I drove pass by that hospital, it was so creepy! Last time I heard some wings of Oregon State Hospital got demolished to make way for new buildings. |
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May 19th, 2010, 11:45 PM
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Thanks!
Oregon State Hospital was quite large and at its peak in the late 1950s, it had over 3,500 patients in 70 buildings. The largest hospital in the world was Pilgrim state Hospital on Long island with over 20,000 patients at its height. 
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