long gone

Abandoned places and treasures left behind. 

[churchrummagesale]

Claustrophobia

[kombination-of-lifes]

[urbanrelics]

MANOIR DE L’ANTIQUAIRE

This impressive mansion is part of a classicist farm complex, dating back to the middle of the 18th century. The extensive farm complex consists on the street side of this manor, a carriage house, a gatehouse and a caretaker’s house. At the rear are several stables and a barn converted into an antique shop. At the far end of the site are the old stables.

The luxurious finish of the mansion, including the finely sculpted mantelpieces in marble and stucco, the slate floors, the wall and ceiling paintings and the carved wood bed, is a clear remnant of the past splendor. It is not surprising that the farm complex was marked as architectural heritage as early as 1981.

Little is known about the earliest history of the farm. The whole became vacant when the antique shop located in the outbuildings went into bankruptcy in December 2019.

[porcelainapparition]

Council Bluffs, Iowa

built in 1920

[elugraphy]

Abadoned gorgeous Japanese love-hotel.

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(via Last Living Soul | Self Portrait ❤️ // Villa du Dictateur. ▲… | Flickr)

[zombilenium]

Western State Hospital, Washington, 

Photograph by Lindsay Blair Brown

[quiet-nymph]

All rights reserved by Fragments of Yesteryear (LvS)

[bobbycaputo]

Photos Inside the Ruins of Luxurious Soviet Spas and Sanatoria by Reginald Van de Velde

[postworlds-blog]

Unfinished hospital

[urbanrelics]

WASSERWERKE

This former sewage treatment plant is a classified industrial building in the German industrial town of Krefeld. The building was designed by architect George “Jörg” Bruggaier and is considered an architecturally important example of the Jugendstil. The factory, built between 1908 and 1910, was used to purify the sewage of the entire city of Krefeld. It is one of the last remaining purification plants from the early days of urban purification systems in Germany. Until 1962 the treatment plant was used in the original state of waste water. From then until 1996 it was - after the installation of special new jacks - only continued as a pumping station. In 1996 the whole was rendered obsolete when an adjacent new pumping station was opened. In addition to the large hall (main building), which includes two sewer channels, an overflow channel and the hall crane, there is also the lime pumping station (engine room) and the manager’s residence (living area approx. 74 m² - built in 1921/1922 according to plans by the architect Anton Rumpen). The original sluice house is still owned by the Krefeld municipal company for sewerage technical reasons and today serves as access to rainwater flooding. The old purification station was purchased by 4 friends, who want to give it a new purpose, while respecting the historic and architectural character of the building. To keep vandals out, the building was recently protected with cameras and motion detectors and can only be visited with permission…

[churchrummagesale]

[freakscircus]

my favorite ever photo. would have never had the guts to go into this weird house without my friends. you had to duck through a hole in the door and there was sadly a dead animal (raccoon?) hanging from the ceiling… no idea how it got into that position. it was just disgusting until we turned the corner and i saw this and audibly gasped. these are the shots that keep me hunting and searching through abandoned houses. i took a quick photo and was the only one brave enough to go upstairs (the house was very gross and broken up and damp) but i think someone had been living up there so we left. wish i got this shot on polaroid too but i can’t really bring myself to go back.

[livesunique]

Sanssouci, “The Chinese House,” Potsdam, Germany 

[scavengedluxury]

The George Inn, Hulme, left isolated by the demolition of surrounding houses and shops. Late 60s.

[urbanrelics]

MANOIR DU COLIMACON BLANC

In the towns archives, this chateau was first mentioned in 1897, when a Parisian wine merchant ordered for a "second home" to be built on the estate. The renovation and extension to the current chateau would only take place in the 1920s by the new owner, who had bought the domain in 1913. He assigned architect Marcel Oudin to remodel the house into a chateau in Art Nouveau style, the style for which this architect was famous. The construction consists mainly of concrete and brick. In the 1970s the estate with the castle was bought by an Iranian businessman, who had the interior restored. He only lived in the chateau for three years before moving to the United States. Contacts between the mayor and the owner of the property in 1999 revealed that the latter did not intend to inhabit the property again, nor to sell it. The chateau soon began to dilapidate, even more so once it fell prey to thieves and vandals. Outside the characteristic white spiral staircase (colimaçon blanc), which was in fact the staff staircase, there remains very little to be photographed today.

[abandonedography]

The Green Line demarcation zone, Lebanon by A.Abbas, 1982, during the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990

Wikipedia: It separated the mainly Muslim factions in West Beirut from the predominantly Christian East Beirut controlled by the Lebanese Front. The appellation refers to the coloration of the foliage that grew because the space was uninhabited. Many of the buildings along the Green Line were severely damaged or destroyed during the war. Since the end of hostilities, however, many of the buildings have been rebuilt within the framework of the urban renewal project of Solidere in Beirut Central District.

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