Norristown State Hospital
Worth the trip to take a look at some history!
State Lunatic Hospital at Norristown, is an active psychiatric hospital located outside the city of Philadelphia in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Designed 1878- 1880, by Wilson Brothers & Company, it was the first institution in the country that recognized female physicians and the first to house a pathology department.
It is currently still running as a hospital for the mental and criminally insane. There are about 5 buildings on the campus that are abandoned. Building number 17 is the most active and attractive to the people who venture out to walk the campus. Building number 17 was used as Acute Admissions Building- when it was active it was used to filter some of the more acute patients coming onto the grounds. However, it has not seen active use since the early 1970's. There were talks of human experimentation done and reports of abuse that occurred on the campus time after time.
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| Front View |
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| There aren't any "No trespassing signs", but beware |
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| Chains to hold down the windows |
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| Front bathroom |
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| Beautiful |
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| The right side of the building |
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| Bars over the windows |
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| Hospital beds (couldn't get any closer than this) |
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| Back of the building, beautiful oval shaped room |
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| Inside the downstairs. Bunch of junk and some old furniture from the hospital. |
Norristown Farm Park
Norristown Farm Park, an immense public park on land where patients once raised crops and livestock. The park was originally part of a 7,000-acre tract of land called "Williamstadt," which originally belonged to William Penn.
The property was then transferred to Isaac Norris, the namesake of Norristown, by way of Penn's son, William Penn, Jr. Norris' heirs sold pieces of Williamstadt to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Norristown State Hospital was opened in the 1870s as a mental hospital. The park is on state-owned land that surrounds the hospital.
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