geswek Photo Shoot - Embreeville State Hospital

[geswek]

copy over from another forum

This facility started out as the Chester County Almshouse in 1798, and was intended to care for the insane poor and neglected of the county. On September 29, 1938 the commonwealth took total control of the facility as part of their new state-wide legislation, known as the "Full State Care Act". In 1971, a juvenile detention center was place within a few buildings at the hospital site for six years, before finally moving on to better physical accommodations. Embreeville was the second sate facility in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to close its doors, in 1980, following that of Hollidaysburg State Hospital.

http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Embreeville_State_Hospital

Link to geswek shoot; http://goo.gl/uv3rC

[DJE624]

How did you get out?

[geswek]

I pulled my pants down.

[DJE624]

........and scared all the nurses.

[geswek]

Nevermind

This needs to be clean.

[DJE624]

Okay.  Sorry.

[FaSSt9602]

Man, I love old buildings!  We just don't have that kind of stuff out west...

I have a hay day with my camera when I visit my wife's family in Oil City, PA.  Some really cool old stuff back east!

[geswek]

You got that.

I was in Texas for quite some time and nothing really amazing to see unlike out here.

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[FaSSt9602]

There is some cool stuff out here, but most of it you aren't going to be taking a SHO to...

Not my picture, but I have done this trail in my truck many times!  Florence Coke Ovens.