Abandonment
Packard Plant – Trip 5
Several of these pictures were never published on my old site, so I figured I might as well make this a new post that is not back dated to a time close to where the pictures were originally posted. Packard Plant Trip 4 produced some fairly unremarkable night shots before we retired to The Pyramid…
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Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital
The COVID crisis has given me some time to make progress on posting all of the pictures and locations from my days of exploring abandoned buildings. Getting all of the material online is something I really want to accomplish, but don’t make enough time to work on. For the most part, I backdate my posts…
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Fore River Shipyard – 2011 – 2012
Fore River Shipyard began operations in 1883. In 1913, it was purchased by Bethlehem Steel. Its final owner, General Dynamics, purchased the yard in 1963 and eventually ceased operations in 1986. Most of the ships the yard worked on were Navy ships. My father actually worked here for a time doing some engineering work, so…
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Buffalo State Hospital – July 13, 2013
We made a second trip to Buffalo State to do another tour just a couple of months after our first visit to Buffalo State Hospital.
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Buffalo State Hospital – May 5, 2013 – Set 2
During our first visit to Buffalo State we got very lucky. Naturally, after the tour ended I was asking about getting more time to photograph (which I would be more than happy to pay for), etc. Christine, the absolutely fantastic person in charge of operations at the Richardson Olmsted Complex indicated that I would really…
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Buffalo State Hospital – May 5, 2013 – Set 1
Construction on the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane began in 1872 with the hospital opening in 1880. The architect was Henry Hobson Richardson who designed many well known buildings, including Trinity Church in Boston and the Thomas Crane Memorial Library on Harvard’s campus. The landscape architect was Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed central park.…
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Point Bonita Lighthouse
Built in 1855 Point Bonita Lighthouse sits in the Marin Headlands near San Francisco, CA. The light is only open during limited hours and weather can be a limiting factor as well. I had made several attempts to visit during previous trips to CA and had been thwarted each time. Coming out of the tunnel…
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Nike Missile Site SF-88
Out in the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco is the Nike Missile Site Museum. I had been meaning to visit the museum and Point Bonita Lighthouse during several previous trips but weather and limited hours kept getting in the way. The Marin Headlands are a mandatory stop whenever I am in San Francisco. Project…
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Cargill Grain Elevator
It was January 2013 and I was taking a week off in between jobs. I decided to take a solo road trip with no real plan…which is pretty unusual for me. My career was going well and I was a lot more worried about getting caught exploring than I had been previously. There were, however,…
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