Ever Wonder What the Inside of a Nuthouse Looked Like??

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An abandoned one, anyway.

I found this site when I was looking for images from Byberry, which is the old Philadelphia State Hospital.

Motts, the photographer, who does awesome work, explores abandoned places and takes some really artful photographs.

Pennhurst State School is another closed facility in the Philadelphia area. They specialized in treating mentally retarded children and adults. Pennhurst was pretty notorious. There are still a lot of former residents in the Philadelphia area, and because of the lawsuits that ultimately closed the place down, there are specialty funding streams for their case management and continuing care.

Many of the buildings and interiors, except for the decaying run down aspects, look very much like the nuthouse which is near and dear to my heart. Many state hospital buildings were constructed as part of the WPA, putting people back to work to bring the country out of the depression. My own building is from 1936. My building has the same tileblock and windows, and many of the rooms had the half-height dividers instead of walls that you'll see in some of these pictures. We still use one of the original seclusion room bolts too.

If you have seen the horror film "Session 9," it was filmed at Danvers State Hospital, which is also featured on this site.

Not everything he shoots is an old nuthouse ... there are some pictures from an abandonded theme park, a subway line, some TB sanitariums, and factory sites.

Obviously, though, it's the mental hospitals I found fascinating.

One of these days, when the weather isn't so hot and humid, I'll have to do some wandering around on the state grounds and get some exterior shots, and see what areas of my hospital I can get into that are less rennovated.

Like the basement. Our basement looks JUST like a lot of these places.