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Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry
1907
Northeast Philadelphia
Boothy443 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A 7,000-patient asylum whose conditions, photographed by a conscientious objector in 1946, helped force national mental health reform. Closed 1990, left to decay for two decades, and demolished in 2006.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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