Empty, falling-down houses have always kind of fascinated me. I spent my childhood summers in rural Southern Illinois where they were fairly common. My grandparents had a nice little house that sat next to an old abandoned one, and I could never resist peering through the windows. I remember the furniture still sat there in the exact same formation, year after year, as the roof caved in and the front porch collapsed around it.
The site 100 Abandoned Houses is bringing attention to the problem of vacant properties in Detroit. It features a gallery of heartbreaking photos like this one and explains that the city’s population has fallen from about 2 million to less than 800,000. “With such a dramatic decline, the abandoned house problem is not likely to go away any time soon.”
Laura Berman of the Detroit News says, “The abandoned house is Detroit’s mythical beast. It’s a dragon you can’t train — or slay.” Even though the city has been demolishing about 1,000 broken-down houses a year, they can’t keep up. Some estimates claim 33,500 empty houses remain. That’s just mind boggling to me.
Are abandoned and falling-down houses a problem where you live?
Here are a few links if you want to learn more:
- “Feral Houses”
- Abandoned Houses Fix Hasn’t Come
- A Haunting Video Tour of Neighborhoods Lined with Empty Houses
(Thanks to Cindy for the links!)
Wow. Can you imagine how beautiful this home was in it’s heyday? This is heartbreaking.
How sad! All those houses ! What a waste of some once great architecture!
Just checked out the abandoned house site and now I’m just sad. I don’t think there’s anything quite as depressing as seeing an abandoned house…knowing that there was once love and happiness there. Some of those houses looked beyond repair but some looked in fairly good shape and seemed to be in nice neighborhoods. With some it was easy to see why they may have been abandoned by looking at their surroundings. So sad to see neighborhoods crumble and people not caring about their “space”. Ok…I need to go look at pictures of butterflies, puppies, and rainbows now.
How sad. I can’t believe we have no other choice than to destroy a piece of history. I wish there was a better solution but other than bringing in new companies to bring new people to the area who will buy and fix up these homes, or maybe someone buying and then relocating the home, both which are quite expensive solutions… I just don’t know what else we can do. So very sad!
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It is heart breaking. There must be a way to up-cycle these materials for new construction. I would think some builders could use these authentic/vintage building materials on new construction in the wealthy suburbs. If the city was flexible, I’m sure someone would step up and help take some of the materials away if there’s no charge. People are paying good money for vintage brink and stone in their new construction and landscaping projects. If we work together, there has got to be a solution for this. How very depressing for the children who live there to have to look at the abandon homes every day.
That house must have been something in it’s day. Too bad.
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Hi Julia!
The abandoned houses in Detroit was the topic of the new ABC show “Detroit 187″ last night. I live near Grand Rapids MI about 2.5 hours from Detroit and this has been a topic of interest for quite some time. It’s such a catch 22 because you have these huge, gorgeous old houses that are becoming homes for squatters and crack houses. However, I do think they’re doing the right thing by taking them down. Hopefully Detroit can rebuild and become closer to what it was in it’s hey-day.
Those are some surprising statistics…I had no idea the population of the city had so dramatically declined. There certainly are no easy answers to this problem. Janell
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I have always been fascinated with abandoned houses as well. As a child I always swore I would find a way to go into abandoned houses when I saw them on the side of the road, of course I never do! I’m glad to hear I’m not alone in this fascination!
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This looks so sad to me! This house features some great architecture. It reminds me of the house from the movie, “Up!”
I always imagine what a house could look like if it had this or that-this house would be so pretty!
Being made of brick, it’s too bad they can’t just gut it and completely remodel. But I guess they can’t just do that with all houses-and that is where house flipping comes in sometimes!
If I had the know how, I would LOVE to buy homes, fix them up and resell them! This would be a fun one!
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I was reading something just last night. I read the Detroit become the N.1 dangerous city in USA. That’s explain why people are abandoning their home. Maybe no one wants to buy those homes. The mayor has to do something to make the city safe again so these houses can maybe be bought and people can live in it again. It’s sad…
Lete me tell you:
When I was 13 years old me and my friends at night broke into a house abandoned for 20 years. It was in my mother’s small town and the old owners were german. People used to say they ran to Brazil because Hittler lost the war. It was scary!! It was a mansion. The stairs looked like a horror movie with web spiders everywhere. We found books, letters from German with “hi Hittle” salutations, pictures, etc. I got all the letters and kept the stamps with the swaistika symbol. 2 years later, they put the house down and burned or put in the trash everything that was inside. I felt guilty I had the letters for a while, but after I saw what they did with everything inside I regreted I didn’t save more things!
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So, so sad! I would have no idea where to begin on a project like that, or how much money it would take.
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I lived in Detroit from 1964 – 1972, we lived in Victor Ruethers house ( Walter Ruether – UAW president’s brother- you have to do your history here) the house where Victor was shot in the 40′s. The house was a white brick colonial, with very unique features inside. It had huge closets, a breakfast nook, built in bookshelves, a vestible in the front, etc, etc. As a “hooked on houses” person, it kills me to see these beautiful homes destroyed, unfortunatley, the neighborhoods are not where you want to live or raise a family, which is why our family left and moved to the suburbs. It’s too bad we couldn’t have moved this house to the suburbs, where the only imagination of builders seems to be is a square 3 bedroom ranch! I wish I had the answer to this problem, but with Detroit and Michigan’s failing economy, I don’t think it’s going to get any better just yet.
Oh man, there’s this AWESOME victorian house on a large corner lot with long driveway by my mom’s house…. turrets and all! It’s my secret desire to buy & restore this house!!!
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Great post! I have always loved and been fascinated with old houses. I never turn down an opportunity to walk through an old abandoned home (my husband thinks I’m completely nuts and doesn’t understand why I would even want to) but I’ve always loved trying to picture the families and the people who lived there before. What their lives were like and how they lived. It’s a glimpse into history. A physical, sometimes, largely untouched reconnection to our past… worn down banister rails from hands running over them 1000′s of times, worn thresholds where home welcomed you in the front door, dilapidated fireplaces that would have drawn you in on a cold, damp day and to see the workmanship that is so rare these days.
It’s really sad to see the huge number of old homes that are neglected. I wish I could take them all in like orphans… love & care for them and give each one a glorious future they so deserve.
I’ve read several articles about Detroit’s abandoned house problem but I guess I had imagined them being small modest houses or something…I don’t know. Thanks for this post. So sad.
As a native of the Detroit area, this just breaks my heart. There is so much potential for this area if they city can just get their act together. I love this city and I know things will turn around. Don’t give up hope on Detroit!
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I had no idea the population decrease was so dramatic. Very sad.
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I’m from the suburbs of Detroit and I see these abandoned houses all the time. The thing is, its not just the houses that are abandoned in Detroit – there are shells of old theaters, factories, restaurants and office buildings all over the city. It’s very depressing to see. You can tell Detroit was a lively, exciting city to work and live in at one time, but is just a ghost town now.
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I live less then twenty miles from Detroit, and the way I feel, that’s twenty miles too close. Urban sprawl and decline has edged its ugliness to the once peaceful suburbs where I live.
The first rule of buying real estate is location. Detroit is unsafe, there is no way these homes can be rescued because of that. Yes, it’s sad…extremely sad. These homes, and there are many of them, were once magnificient, but crime, drugs, and unemployment have turned a once thriving and beautiful city into a dangerous wastland.
To everything there is a season…Detroit has had it’s season, and I just can’t see it coming back to what it once was. Very sad indeed.
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Baloney!
Read the New York Times much? Their arts and culture writers can’t get enough of the POSSIBILITIES in Detroit for artists and people who aren’t trapped in your mentality. Get out of your sheltered suburban wasteland once in awhile and open your eyes.
Possibililty and reality are two different things, as are safe and dangerous.
I feel the loss of a great city as much or more then any one. My husband grew up there, as a teenage I shopped there and went to the theatre. One of the best Hospitals in the nation, Henry Ford is downtown…if your there as a patient, don’t expect many visitors..its not safe. Don’t get me started on the corrupt government and school system!
If culture writers think there is so much POSSIBILITY, what is their reasoning as to why nothing has happened? Because no one wants to invest money in such a corrupt and unsafe city!
The same goes for the theatre district. NOT SAFE. God forbid you should have car trouble on the Freeway or while your down there, because if you do, your as good as a human target.
We all want our city to come back, and to be safe and clean. The Institute of Art, the theatres, the beautiful river front…so much is wasted because of crime.
Maybe you should open your eyes, and get out of your land of possibilites into the land of reality. Some things just are what they are.
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Pat, I live in downtown Detroit. I have lived there for twelve years. People like you have your heads youknowwhere. I understand that people of a certain generation have their prejudices, but you really need to open your eyes. Five years I’ve lived in the “theater district” (grand circus park) and still not a crime victim. Imagine that!
Tell me, when was the last time YOU were an actual victim of a crime in Detroit?
I really want people to be able to speak their minds on my blog, but please refrain from any personal attacks. We’re all friends here, even if we have a difference of opinion. Thanks. -Julia
Amen Heidi! I moved to Michigan last year and love it here. I would live in Detroit in a heartbeat, it’s a vibrant and exciting place to be. I live in Lansing because I work for the state government, but I spend alot of time in Detroit and have never once had a problem. It’s so easy for people who never leave the suburbs to tell all of us who treasure our cities how dangerous it is, but it’s attitude full of ignorance and misinformation. If you want Detroit to be a better place, then get over your fears, come here and make it happen! Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
I’m sorry Julia. . .but I don’t feel I was personally attacking Pat. You have to understand that I hear people repeating those total falsehoods about WHERE I LIVE all the time, and it is extremely frustrating. Everyone who reads her comment is going to take something away from it, when in fact I doubt Pat comes down to WHERE I LIVE more than once or twice a year (if that) and has based all her conclusions on suburban rumors which, in fact, serve to justify and excuse the fact that an entire generation of people abandoned this city and left beautiful houses like these to rot.
Oh that photo just breaks my heart. I grew up in Michigan so the whole financial situation there tugs on my heart constantly. We don’t have a falling down house problem here in Massachusetts, not close to the city where we live anyhow, I can’t speak for western Mass. But knowing about the plight of Detroit I often walk around the city and wonder if nearly everyone left what would Boston look like? What parts would still be there, what would close down, what would be allowed to fall apart? And that really makes me sad because I know at one point Detroit was just as lively and populated as Boston, and now…gone.
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I too have always loved abandoned houses and of course ghost towns. Something about them. The hopes that some people had. Sometimes a way of life, just gone.
But I have to say looking at those hundreds of gorgeous homes. I want to scream out save them!!! How I wish some of them were where I could save them, or even had the money to.
My logic knows that tearing most of them down is probably the only solution, but I sure wish they would leave a few to be restored.
BUILTSTLOUIS.NET awesome collection of dereliction in st louis, mo
I hadn’t seen that site before. Thanks, Cherie! -Julia
This is sad. It’s very unfortunate that these houses exist in so many places where there is no work, so people aren’t moving there.
It would be wonderful if instead of tearing them down, they were to be rehabbed (sp?) by new owners. But I think the reality is that for as beautiful as most of these houses are, they also don’t reflect the way we live anymore. Bedrooms are tiny, often have tinier or non-existent closets. Especially these victorians, which while lovely, usually have small rooms. But the character of these places is certainly impossible to recreate.
I just watched the new TV show “Detroit 1-8-7″ last night and they highlighted the abandoned homes of Detroit! The home you have featured is so beautiful, even if it’s abandoned or run down.
I live in a rural setting, but just down the road is an abandoned home. I’ve done a little snooping in some of the windows and oh what I could do with that place! It’s small, seems to be only a one bedroom, but so quaint and cabin-y.
I missed the show, but Lindsey just sent me the link if anyone wants to see it on Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/181430/detroit-1-8-7-nobodys-homeunknown-soldier
-Julia
goodness..sad is the word of the day, and its so so true. That you tube video is just incredible. Where has our America gone???
Lisa
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I live about 40 minutes from Detroit. Most people in Michigan do not want to live in Detroit. There has been some renovation, with urban town homes near the arts/theater/sports districts (yes, we have arts, theater, and sports!), and an influx of young professionals, and there is a neighborhood called Indian Village http://www.historicindianvillage.org/ that is gorgeous! But it takes a special kind of family to live there.
The abandoned houses in Detroit are beautiful. The architecture is gorgeous. It is heartbreaking. If Detroit were like Boston or Minneapolis, my husband and I would live there in a heartbeat.
My in-laws lived in Detroit and my husband lived in a house there the first 4 years of his life. They were part of the “white flight” to the suburbs. My husband found recent aerial photos of his first neighborhood, as well as aerial photos from the 1960s. Most of the houses that were there in the 60s are gone now. The house he lived in still stands, but the neighborhood is not safe enough for us to drive by the house.
Thanks for that link, T! -Julia
Please don’t try to speak for everyone in Michigan. I have very dear friends who live in Detroit city and they love it. I’m a transplant here, but everyone I work with and have met are very supportive of Detroit, love to visit and most would gladly move there if they could get a job there. Indian Village is a great neighborhood, but I would encourage people to visit some of the other great Detroit neighborhoods: Woodbridge, Corktown, Boston Edison, Midtown, Palmer Park. And downtown. It’s a very big place. Are there rough neighborhoods? Of course. There are rough neighborhoods in NYC. But it’s still a city of roughly 800,000; it’s the 11th largest city in the U.S., so there is certainly room for a huge variety of different people and places.
I have a fascination with abandoned homes too and always want to know the history of who lived there. It’s so unfortunate that the only solution is to tear them down.
Our area is a new urban area with surrounding farmland – you don’t really see abandoned homes.
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So sad to see all that beautiful architecture go to waste… When I see old houses, I always imagine what it would be like to save them, and restore them to their former glory. What makes it even sadder, is that I see so many developments full of houses that all look just the same… If only the effort was put into restoring what we already have, but I guess it all comes down to the bottom line! Lx
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I’ve seen pictures of the abandoned schools in Detroit but not of the houses. You just assume that they go hand in hand. That city is as messy and corrupt as they come – they need a complete turn around in every aspect to really make this city great again.
It’s such a shame to lose such beautiful homes, no matter where they are. It just makes me a little sick inside to see.
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It is so sad. I wish more people would take the time and effort to restore these homes and neighborhoods. And I forgot you grew up in southern Illinois! Unfortunately, run down homes are becoming even more common here. The homes of so many older people are usually put up for sale after they pass away or move. They are usually bought by “slum lords” where they become destroyed by tenants and later abandoned.
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I have actually seen these photos before and looking at them really saddens me. I feel like houses have their own personality. Thankfully, the homes around where I live, are still lived in, but they are old, (1930′s – 1970′s old).
I too love looking at old houses and wonder the history of them. When the show, “If Walls Could Talk”, was on, I loved watching it, just so I could hear the history about the people’s homes and see the inside. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time to the old eras, to see what neighborhoods were like back in the day.
Everytime my family goes on vacation, we drive through Lime Oregon and we pass an old abandoned factory. Each time we pass it, it makes me want to findout the histroy of the factory. Maybe someday I can.
I look at this picture and think about the people who once must have lived there.
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I’ve never seen abandoned houses in Madison, WI as I’ve seen in NYC; growing up in Harlem with delapidated brownstones and tenements. I was overcome with emotion to see so many houses in Detroit left to waste away. It is sad to see the images and imagine how desolate Detroit has become.
Boy that is really sad for sure! And the timing is interesting with that new cop show set in Detroit and there is a video clip going around – YouTube – Detroit in RUINS! (Crowder goes Ghetto) – about how Detroit was once such a thriving city and is now like a black hole where you DON’T want to be … I live near Salt Lake and I don’t think there are any pockets where houses are abandoned like the one you’ve shown. Houses are sitting empty from all the foreclosures, but not anything to compare to Detroit.
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Growing up in the Midwest, I can tell you that the “suburban exodus” has hurt many a city, old homes included. As much as I complain about living in the Pacific NW and can’t stand how there are no lot lines, houses on top one another, urban growth boundaries, etc, etc – I am grateful that the foresightedness of the city planners has prevented such an exodus from occuring. As a result, the city center has grown, older homes are restored and/or revitalized and considered highly desirable, and there is a keen interest in preserving the history that continues to be erradicated across the country. It’s a sad fact, but unless there is some “urban exodus” to help out these rust belt towns, I see no other solution but to tear down. As much as it pains me to get rid of those gorgeous homes…
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That is a pretty heartbreaking photo. It’s such a gorgeous house. I don’t think that’s really a big problem where I live (Salt Lake City)- I’d say that the issue here is that people own and live in these houses, but they don’t maintain them so the historic beauties fall apart. Also, we’re such a sprawling city that I think people prefer to live out in a suburb or a neighboring town (which is basically a continuation of SLC). It always fascinates me that people continue to build cookie cutter subdivisions when there are beautiful historic houses conveniently located in the city that could be rescued and enjoyed (and with big lots too!) To each their own, I suppose.
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That just breaks my heart!! That home clearly has some beautiful lines to it. We don’t have that problem with old homes, but so many of the McMansions in my area are being foreclosed on….
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Wow. That place must have been awesome back in its day. So sad they have this problem.
Wow. That one is gorgeous!
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While this post is sad, as a lot of those homes are uniquely beautiful and now left to decay without anyone to enjoy them, it was nice to discover that your love of all things houses goes back to when you were a little girl. Living in a small town, we don’t have many abandoned houses, just some vacant homes and businesses. It’s sad to see areas of Detroit rapidly decline this way.
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How depressing……….! Hopefully your post, Julia, will alert some aid or buyers.
-Trish
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My family is from the Detroit suburbs, and even as a kid back in the 80s when we would drive downtown there were plenty of rundown or abandoned areas, and it made me want to cry even then to see those big beautiful houses in that state of neglect. I know the problem is so much worse now. So, so sad.
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I just looked at the 100 abandoned houses… It’s so sad. Not only are they amazing homes going to waste, many sit on large lots. I own an 85 year old home in the middle of Portland on a postage stamp lot. As much as I love it, I would revel in having an old home on a decent size lot.
Wow – some of those houses look like bombed out remnants from WWII. Doesn’t Detroit have a Preservation or Historical Society?
The deterioration of a neighborhood can start with one Broken Window as can the
regentrification.
Wow – some of those houses look like bombed out remnants from WWII. Doesn’t Detroit have a Preservation or Historical Society?
The deterioration of a neighborhood can start with one Broken Window and the
regentrification of a neighborhood can start with the replacement of one broken window.
The problems are so much greater than a historical society can tackle, but I’m not going to go into economics, and race relations, and the problems of not having a diversified economy, and government subsidized sprawl, etc. in a blog reply. There is an abandonded house problem in Detroit, but remember Detroit isn’t really different than any other city that lost half it’s population after 1950, although maybe the former size of the city makes it a more publicized problem. St. Louis, Cleveland, etc. Population decline is a part of the reality of the Rust Belt and the Industrial Midwest. But it doesn’t mean they aren’t still great cities.
Most of this is the consequence of jobs being moved out of this city and into other countries. Both parties have done this to this great country. Our manufacturing base has been destroyed. We are now a service based economy. Service does not generate wealth, only manufacturing does. So, fear for what your grandchildren will see happen to this country if this isn’t turned around.
Wow. That is so sad.
I live in Southern Illinois, and found it interesting that you spent your summers here.
I would love an older house, but for us, a young couple starting out, the costs of repairing one would be as much as buying a brand new one. Not to mention the added costs of maintaining it afterwards.
We currently have a home that was built in the 1920′s. We could completely renovate it (which is what really needs to be done to it – it is so dated) and never get back an amount close to what we spent on doing it. If we were going to spend the rest of our lives here that would be one thing, but it is only a two bedroom house so that isn’t an option for us. I wonder if others are in situations similar to ours.
Laura–
I was born in Southern Illinois and then went back a lot to visit relatives over the years. I have a lot of happy memories of that area and the small towns that I used to run around in during the summers.
I’m sort of in the same situation you are, house-wise. We’ve been putting more money into it than we’ll ever get back out (unless the housing market makes a sudden and unexpected turn-around). We plan to stay here until the kids are grown if possible, so we’re making the changes we need anyway, knowing that we might not ever see a return on the investment. It’s a tough decision to make, though, either way.
-Julia
It’s such a shame. This is SUCH a problem everywhere right now. That brick house is gorgeous!!
When I drive by houses like that, I wish I could buy them all up and fix them…!
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It’s so sad because a lot of these houses were once architecturally beautiful homes, still obvious in most. It’s also always interesting to me to see trees and and plants growing in, around, and through abandoned buildings. It kind of goes to show you that without human interference nature will take it over again. I really like the 12th picture. I love the two different sized bowed window bays.
wow! what an amazing home it was and could be.
i’m usually not one to add this kind of comment without offering a solution, in this case there are far reaching problems that i just don’t have the solutions for, but to think so many homeless people and so many peopleless homes, just sayin’.
I literally almost cried when I went to this site. I live in an area were I am happy to have a roof over my head but in no way is this my dream home. I could see dozens of those homes being my dream home. The thought of all those empty homes once filled with such memories and stories is just heartbreaking.
It is heartbreaking to see homes in this condition. Especially historically and architecturally beautiful homes falling apart. Looking at them, I thought about why they are abandoned and lost. That the families who lived there just couldn’t make it and had to leave.
So, for me, as hard as it is to see homes falling prey to the ravages of time and circumstance, it is even harder to realize that the people who lived there also fell prey to the ravages of time and circumstance. All of these lost, beautiful buildings…all of those lost, beautiful people.
I hope we all learn a lesson from this, so it can never happen again.
These homes are all absolutely beautiful…too bad the city couldn’t just GIVE them to those who could afford to restore them or some other creative idea!
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I live in Cleveland, OH where there are also beautiful abandoned historic homes (like this one: http://www.clevelandareahistory.com/2010/10/condemned-cleveland-house-on-south.html). I wish I could save them all because they are a piece of our history. I think the 100 Abandoned Homes project is important. When I look at the pictures, I can imagine what the area must have looked like when these houses were full of life (when there were more jobs available!). I believe in the revival of cities- Detroit and my own. Things may be the way they are now, but they don’t always have to be.
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Thanks for that link, Melanie! -Julia
Some of these house must have been quite impressive in their heyday. The architecture of some of these homes are quite stunning. On a more upbeat note perhaps, they make great backdrops for photography. As an avid photographer myself, I am always on the hunt for abandoned architecture. Publisher,familyfirepit.com
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This project was entered in the recent major art contest in Grand Rapids, Michigan: http://www.artprize.org/artists/public-profile/51005
That’s cool–thanks! -Julia
It’s sad to see what Socialism, “Big Society Programs”, and Welfare have done to formerly ultra-prosperous areas. It would be really cool to “Urban Pioneer” these properties, but the disease that killed the Cement and Mortar of the buildings is still there and would kill any living person or their economic investments within days simply for a 40 ounce bottle of cheap liquor. Tragedy and Waste are Detroit’s Only Legacy.
Sad but fascinating at the same, what a beautyfull house.
I just bought a book full of abandoned places all over the world, so many beautyfull pictures, the book is called adventures of urban explorers.
Could be interesting to go to Detroit;0)
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