...I've always enjoyed taking photos of old run down or abandoned buildings; here's one of my favorites. Anybody else got anything ...?
hey rusty1, where was that house located. I am in central illinois and that looks identical to an abonded house I used to play at when I was a kid. Just wondering if it was the same one.
heres our old farm house that went in the flood of 93! i took a chainsaw and cut the front door out to slide my coupe inside!
Hell, I've seen whole abandoned towns. Ghost towns for real. South Dakota seems to have more than a few. Quinn and Cottonwood on RT 14 come to mind.
My house was abandoned for years before I bought it, still kinda looks abandoned. Kids avoid coming to my door on Halloween. Oh well, more candy for me!
LOVE THAT SHOW......................... My old man found a civil war diary in the basement of a house he bought back in the 40's in NY.....................I STILL HAVE IT
my place was empty for 4 years before we bought it, built in 1790 in red brick. The house has a cellar.....just because it's built on basically sand and gravel they dug the sand out to mix the mortar (classic lime mortar) to build the house...instant cellar. I'ts a real pity we have no pics of it the day we bought it but all our friends thought we had totally lost the plot it was in such a mess..
damn... a little black paint, some red trim, and somebody on here would "drive the shit out of these". Nice pics.
Damn, theres more than a few around here. One behind my house, found some '55 Chevy fenders and bumpers inside about a year ago. Guy I know owns the property, and cared less. Another one across from our garage, been inside/under it before, just an old gutted house. Nothing too special. Floors warped all to hell. A couple of years ago, me and one of my friends biked up to some abandoned farm place in a holler. Plenty of barns, furniture, motorcycle wheels and tractor parts. House was two stories and the floor was warped like a half circle. Washing machines everywhere. I still need to go up in there and salvage them for patch panels, might've missed a few things. Another old house where a Corvair Van and AD Chevy truck sit outside a few miles away. Also warped up and rotting. Bridge to the place is destroyed, so you have to balance across rails to get up to it. Also on a grown over hillside, most people don't even acknowledge it. Found some pieces of bed-frame, a tail light, and a mirror in a collapsed shed, and a grill in a creek. I don't really care to take stuff away from properties were people have forgotten they own it, don't care, or don't know. And most of this stuff is going to rot into the ground because they don't have the imagination to use or salvage it. A shitty bedframe might be some old metal to most people, but can be used for some decent bracing to one person. But I'd definetly call someone before "salvaging" some walls and or roofing off the place. No-body will miss some old parts or metal thats laying in the bushes. But might notice when half a house turns up missing.
Papasmurf, that house is located in between Polo, Il and Brookville, Il in the northwest part of the state. On the corner of Hwy. 52 and Freeport blacktop owned by John Deuth. I drive by it everyday. In fact this summer I was in it. Have to fix a loose neutral in the electric meter. The only reason they don't tear it down is because the electric service for the whole farm is located in the upstairs of the house.
Cool pics. anything like that gets burned to the ground around here. It doesnt even have to be that old. Just unoccupied.
I used to pass quite a few long-abandoned farm houses on my drive to school. I never took the time to take pictures, though, always in too much of a hurry. As a passionate historic preservationist, I have mixed feelings about a lot of these places. A lot of them are unchanged since fifty years ago or more, which is cool (we call that "preservation through neglect" and it is happening with the skyscrapers in downtown Detroit, too), but they're slowly falling apart which is not cool. Someday they'll be gone. To restore them would remove a bit of the "soul," but eventually they'll collapse or be torn down and the soul will leave them entirely. It's kinda like seeing old cars in a riverbed or junkyard - they look cool as they sit, but they won't last forever that way. -Dave
A buddy of mine was up doing research in Montana and the Dakotas last year. There are some counties that no one lives in any more. Central Illinois is full of neat old frame farm houses I'd die to own. Made with real wood, not the crap they sell these days.
This was one of the first houses in this area, the historical society wants it but the lady who owns it won't let anyone near it.
When Me And My Wife Used To Live In Mass The House We Were In Was Built In The 1850s. My Brother In Law Found Some Old Slave Type Shackles In An Old Crawl Space Behind Celler Walls. That Basement Used To Always Creep Me Out, But Even Worse After That
When I was a kid we used to go to a few ghost towns in the area, one in paticular everywhere you looked there were all these 40's and 50's cars abandoned, more cars than buildings, then one yr some big cleanup effort happenend and they all dissapeared
Quinn has 8 people and Cottonwood has 11 ! And alot of buildings aren't that old. Old houses are cool for the "real" guts, but I've re-modled to many houses to get the warm fuzzy about all that possible cobbled crap that drywall can hide. Next time I'm out there I'll stop and shoot some pics.
I came across this place on a road trip sat. I put 250 miles on my new very un-HAMB car. The place still had all kinds of stuff in and around the house and barn . It was like they just walked away.
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