Hi, I go to a small branch campus of Penn State, Penn State Schuylkill. I was told that this campus used to be a morgue or poor house or mental hospital, and that this where bodies used to be burned, but is that what it actually is? Here are pictures:
Probably a question better suited for /r/whatisthisthing
But that's probably just an ordinary incinerator. Before the 1970s, virtually every institution, even as small as elementary schools, had an incinerator for ordinary refuse. In some areas of the country, even single-family homes had them.