Abandoned Architecture

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Abandoned glass botanical garden in England

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Disused watermill overgrown by weeds in Lincolnshire, England.

Source: sebcoxfurniture (flickr)

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Spillers’ Tyne mill, newcastle. Spillers’ mill opened in 1938, spillers’ mill was the tallest flour mill in the world however the flour mill shut down in 2006. Spillers’ was derelict for a few years before becoming the Baltic art gallery.

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Abandoned farm house slowly rotting away awaiting demolition.

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Exploring an abandoned house in Blackwater, Chesapeake, VA with ionicsky

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Abandoned villa near Florence

One of the best places visited this year during our honeymoon. Ancient villa on a hill with views over the vineyards and sunny edge of Tuscany. Stunning frescoes and forgotten piano in the main hall. I want to travel again for these abandoned places.

1. In fact, almost all the doors and windows on the first floor filled with concrete, but it is even more increases our interest and excitement. In the best traditions of the southern edges all around heavily overgrown with sharp prickles. Embark on a journey around the building. On the territory there is no soul, only hear the birds singing and the sound of cicadas.

2 About 5 minutes of searching, and here it is, move inside found. Writhing like a snake, climb through a narrow hole, where we get to the first floor. Since all windows laid, no pitch-dark. Turn on the flashlight and go to the research facilities. Basically, the first floor of the empty, but soon find ourselves in a room where all the walls are covered with children’s drawings. Is scary. A little further suddenly find move-tunnel. Coming in from his feet so 100, I know I’m in a long pass over the old wall, leading farther away. After a while, we find ourselves in a completely different building on the site. Wow! After seeing a couple of rooms, heading back the same way. Some segments of the ceiling where there is no, and the sunlight pours deserted tunnel, and thickets begin to penetrate into the building….

From the Abandoned Places Livejournal!

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Lucien Moore House, Detroit

Unbelievably, this house has been renovated into condos and is currently in very nice condition. 

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Abandoned Russian submarine base

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Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Philadelphia, PA

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Conservatory, Wentworth Castle (by Blue Pelican)

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Wild and Wonderful West Virginia part 1/2

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Nested doors connecting each of the patient rooms in one of the old tubercular wards at Mayview State Hospital, just outside of Pittsburgh, at sunrise.  These doors would presumably allow greater airflow through the building, considered an important part of the treatment of tuberculosis.  Unfortunately, most of this asylum campus was demolished within weeks of this photograph being taken.

Prints available here.

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A lot of strangers have written to me over the years asking how to access specific buildings, and I refuse to give away access information.  This photograph illustrates one of the reasons I almost never share - abandoned buildings can be dangerous, potentially deadly.  In 2007, fire struck the male wards at Hudson River State Hospital, a stately 19th century Kirkbride-plan asylum in Poughkeepsie, NY.  This is one of the parts of this wing that wasn’t damaged by the fire.  This is the fourth floor of the building; beneath the looming void visible ahead is a drop straight down into the basement.  To get to the position from which I took this photograph, I had to leap from the archway off to the left and catch what was left of the floor - had I missed, it would have been about 60 feet down into a pile of metal, brick, splintered wood - in other words, almost certain death.  To me, this is just part of the job - taking calculated risks to get great shots.  But I wouldn’t recommend it to most people.  Within a year of taking this photograph, this entire area had dropped out - this floor is no longer accessible.  Had I tried to make the jump six months after I did, would the floor have held me?  I’ll never know.

Print available here.

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Wild and Wonderful West Virginia part 2/2

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Easy chair in a pink room in the Nurses’ Building of the Boston Chronic Disease Hospital, located on Long Island in the Boston Harbor.  This former quarantine island is almost impossible to access without the permission of the City of Boston.  Almost.

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Richard Sexton’s ravishing take on Latin Caribbean architecture.

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Partially demolished building with Edifico FOSCA in the background, Vedado neighborhood, Havana, Cuba

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