On a crisp autumn afternoon, I traveled to Jackson County, Indiana, to enjoy the beauty of the season and visit a historic fire lookout tower.
Category: Midwest
The air was crisp, if not a little damp, on this spectacular autumn morning at the Hickory Ridge Lookout Tower in Indiana.
Some time ago, my partner introduced me to one of the most intriguing parks in Indianapolis: The Ruins at Holliday Park.
While this site covers mostly abandoned places, I do like to cover sites that have been preserved, such as the McCormick’s Creek Fire Tower.
Demolition work has begun on the abandoned Ferry Cap & Set Screw Company factory in Cleveland, Ohio.
It has been 38 years since a train last rumbled through southeast Ohio’s Campbell and Eagle tunnels. Located near Ohio Route 32, one tunnel is accessible on foot while the other is sealed with concrete blocks.
The Shawnee Lookout Tower is a historic but endangered fire detection tower in Hocking County, Ohio.
The Rubber Bowl, located in Akron, Ohio, was a historic stadium that was a unique place in the city’s history.
As I photographed the construction of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge over the Detroit River between Michigan and Ontario, the silent blast furnaces on Zug Island nearby caught my attention.
On March 28 of this year, a fire destroyed the former Pentecostal Determine Church of God in the Union-Miles Park neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.
During my recent visit to the Traverse City State Hospital campus in Traverse City, Michigan, I had the privilege of participating in PreservationWork’s final full tripod photographic tour.
While driving back from Traverse City on a rainy Saturday afternoon, I initially passed by an architectural relic. I quickly turned the car around and returned for a few snapshots in the rain.
Have you ever felt a strong desire to explore the spaces of the past, to walk through corridors that have been lost to demolition?
The Aetnaville Bridge, an abandoned yet emblematic structure that connects the former village of Aetnaville in Bridgeport, Ohio, with Wheeling Island in Wheeling, West Virginia, is scheduled for demolition.
The vacant Ferry Cap & Screw Company building in Cleveland, Ohio, is approaching the end of its useful life, but redevelopment efforts are underway.
During a pleasant evening in Cleveland, Ohio, I set out on a mission to photograph the various bridges spanning the Cuyahoga River.
Westland Mall, once a bustling shopping center on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, is being demolished after years of abandonment.
The once dormant viaduct over Cedar Fork now echoes a renewed sense of progress, as the Cincinnati Eastern Railroad (CCET) steadily advances on reviving a long-inactive stretch of railway. The restoration effort focuses on sections of the former Cincinnati & Eastern/Norfolk & Western/Norfolk Southern line between Cincinnati and Portsmouth.