Previous: Hospital Current: Museum & tourist attraction
Building details
Former names
Eastern State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic
Alternative names
Pennhurst School
General information
Status
Partially operational – private property
Type
Previous: Hospital
Current: Museum & tourist attraction
Architectural style
Jacobean Revival
Elevation
233 feet (71 m)[2]
Current tenants
Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance
Owner
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Technical details
Material
Brick, steel, and concrete (all buildings)
Floor count
List of building count
Administration Building – 4
Assembly Building – 4
Devon Hall – 5
Kitchens/Dining Halls – 4
Hershey Hall – 5
Hospital – 4
Industry Halls – 4
Laundry Facilities – 4
Limerick Hall – 5
Mayflower Hall – 5
Penn Hall – 4
Philadelphia Hall – 4
Quaker Hall – 4
Rockwell Hall – 4
Tinicum Hall – 4
Union Hall – 5
Vincennes Hall – 5
Superintendent's Residence – 3
Floor area
Total area: 636,454 sq ft (59,128.5 m2)
List of buildings area
Administration Building – 29,128 sq ft (2,706.1 m2)
Assembly Building – 27,102 sq ft (2,517.9 m2)
Devon Hall – 103,840 sq ft (9,647 m2)
Kitchens/Dining Halls – unknown
Hershey Hall – 29,128 sq ft (2,706.1 m2)
Hospital – 86,632 sq ft (8,048.4 m2)
Industry Halls – 23,182 sq ft (2,153.7 m2)
Laundry Facilities – 42,872 sq ft (3,982.9 m2)
Limerick Hall – 43,270 sq ft (4,020 m2)
Mayflower Hall – 45,740 sq ft (4,249 m2)
Penn Hall – 34,208 sq ft (3,178.0 m2)
Philadelphia Hall – 14,448 sq ft (1,342.3 m2)
Quaker Hall – 27,440 sq ft (2,549 m2)
Rockwell Hall – 25,200 sq ft (2,340 m2)
Tinicum Hall – 32,628 sq ft (3,031.2 m2)
Union Hall – 31,708 sq ft (2,945.8 m2)
Vincennes Hall – 36,600 sq ft (3,400 m2)
Superintendent's Residence – 3,460 sq ft (321 m2)
Haunted House - 4,640 sq ft (431 m2)
Lifts/elevators
1 (Hospital)
Grounds
At open: 112 acres (45 ha)
At close: 1,400 acres (570 ha)
Pennhurst State School and Hospital
Pennsylvania Historical Marker
PHMC dedicated
April 10, 2010 (2010-04-10)[3]
Pennhurst State School and Hospital, originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic was a state-run institution for mentally and physically disabled individuals of Southeastern Pennsylvania located in Spring City.[4] After 79 years of controversy, it closed on December 9, 1987.[5]
^W.A. Phillips (1954). "Pennhurst State School" (PDF). Preserve Pennhurst. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. p. 3. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
^U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pennhurst State School
^"PHMC Historical Markers Search". Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on March 21, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
^"About Pennhurst State School and Hospital". Preserve Pennhurst. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
^Yakutchik, Maryalice (January 24, 1988). "Closing Pennhurst sets rights precedence". Reading Eagle. Reading, PA. pp. A-1, A-3. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
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