Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry Mental Hospital) | abandoned / shut down, demolished, psychiatric hospital / clinic

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The Philadelphia State Hospital opened in 1906 and closed in 1990 due to mistreatment of patients, a steadily decreasing budget and general deinstitutionalization.

The city planned to demolish the campus in 1991, but this went nowhere due to the high cost of asbestos abatement. The campus sported an enormous network of buildings all connected by above/underground traffic tunnels and underground steam tunnels which had made it very attractive to urban explorers for years. Demolition of the buildings commenced on June 14, 2006 and was complete by July of 2007. The campus currently consists of a combination of a 55+ housing development (sporadic placement of houses, as only a fraction of the planned houses have been purchased/constructed) and a sea of mud.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_State_Hospital
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Coordinates:   40°6'43"N   74°59'1"W

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  • RIP
  • Gone.
  • as of April 2008, construction started- a couple of houses already built.
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