Byberry Mental Hospital Photos

Byberry mental hospital photos. Construction for a large asylum complex was in progress from 1910 to the mid 1920s which included several dormitories an infirmary kitchens laundry. Due to the understaffing there was an extremely low ratio of orderlies to patients at the byberry mental hospital. It was specifically located in the somerton section of the city on the border with bucks county. It was closed due to deplorable conditions.

The name of the institution was changed several times during its history being variously named philadelphia state hospital. I own all the photos. The philadelphia state hospital at byberry was a psychiatric hospital located on either side of roosevelt boulevard us route 1 in northeast philadelphia pennsylvania. 25 haunting photos of life inside new york s tenements.

Although some dedicated caring and hard working staff at the byberry mental hospital truly cared for the patients a number of bad employees carried out abuses that remain disturbing to this day. We started exploring this abandoned campus somewhere around 1999 and kept at it until it was demolished in 2006. Philadelphia state hospital also known as byberry was shut down in 1990. 37 haunting portraits of 19th century mental asylum patients.

Mar 18 2016 explore doloresmisko s board philadelphia state hospital at byberry on pinterest. Inside philadelphia s byberry mental hospital house of horrors 1 of 45 a patient sits inside ohio s cleveland state mental hospital in 1946. Neglect at byberry mental hospital. We intend to share our experience with you.

More can by found about this place by doing a search on the browser of the users choice for any of the tags below. Tags with hyphens should have the hyphens removed if the ebaums file uploader didn t already do it tho i did add them and be treated as the two or three words that they really are when using those terms to search with. It then became the worlds greatest abandoned mental hospital playground until it was completely demolished in 2007. The byberry documentary coming 2019.

Photos of byberry a k a. 25 years after the notorious byberry mental institution closed former patients are living in the normalized community just fine. See more ideas about hospital mental hospital abandoned asylums. Byberry state mental hospital pa aka philadelphia state hospital this northeast philadelphia asylum was once a city operated hospital.

One brave patient made it all possible. Philadelphia state hospital byberry history this large complex has its humble beginnings as a small work farm for the mentally challenged in a section of philadelphia called byberry in 1906.