Regretfully, the roof of the long-abandoned Church of the Transfiguration in Buffalo, New York collapsed during a storm yesterday. It was probably one of the most dangerous buildings that I had ever stepped into as significant portions of the ceiling had collapsed through the main floor and into the basement. You can see just how bad the structure was years ago with the late evening sunlight peering through the many holes of the roof.
A minor fire in at the Waldo Hotel in Clarksburg, West Virginia yesterday evening did no damage to the historic building.
Along the southern harbors of Buffalo, New York are the ruins of several elevators. Some of those giants, such as the former Cargill Superior, and Canadian Pool, have been derelict for decades, but they can all point their decline to the development of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the unpreparedness of Buffalo’s industrial leaders as the reason for their closure.
The last remnant of the historic Stearns & Foster Company in Lockland, Ohio, came tumbling today as the smokestack was toppled over.
America is not unique in having desolate shopping malls, but the sheer number of underperforming, closed, and abandoned malls—including the mammoth Century III Mall near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—should give cause for alarm.
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Add Yours →Shame these churches no matter what religion never removed and preserved all their stained glass windows in a museum. They would of made millions charging admission especially if it was displayed in a abandoned church that was purchased and turned into the stained glass museum.