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Old Taylor Distillery is a formerly abandoned distillery along Glenn’s Creek near Frankfort, Kentucky. The complex is currently being restored for Castle & Key, an upstart distillery.
Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Hospital is a former tuberculosis hospital that operated between 1910 and 1961 in Louisville, Kentucky. It reopened as the Woodhaven Geriatrics Center between 1963 and 1981.
Armco Steel Ashland Works, now a part of AK Steel, is a mostly closed integrated steel mill near Ashland, Kentucky. It contains a mothballed pig-iron blast furnace, basic oxygen furnace, continuous caster, coating line, and other production facilities. At its height, the 700-acre plant also featured a coke facility, another pig-iron blast furnace, and a hot strip.
The Columbia Mantel Company was a furniture and mantel factory in Louisville, Kentucky. It’s site in the Old Louisville neighborhood was demolished in 2021.
The Keneseth Israel Synagogue is a former Orthodox sanctuary at Jacob and Floyd Streets in downtown Louisville. It was demolished in 2021 after a fire.
Morgantown Ordnance Works, located in Morgantown, West Virginia, was an integral of the P-9 Project, the codename given during World War II to the Manhattan Project’s heavy water production program.
The Fourco Glass Company Rolland Plant is an abandoned and partly demolished glass factory in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Located on the tracks of the former U.S. Steel McDonald Works are dozens of locomotives either in various stages of disassembly or intact, awaiting refurbishment.
This features a gallery of abandoned churches and religious buildings in the United States.
The Old Louis Hunter Distillery is a former bourbon distillery that operated from 1850 to 1974 in Lair, Kentucky.
The series of buildings at 845 Monmouth Street in Newport, Kentucky is home to Carabello Coffee. Previous uses included a National City Bank branch and a check cashing company.
Hazel Green Academy is a former private school that operated between 1880 and 1983 in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky.
The USS Sachem and USS Phenakite is an abandoned yacht that was used by the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1942 to 1945. It was later used as a tour boat before becoming abandoned on a small creek just yards from the Ohio River in northern Kentucky.
Cannel City Union Church is an abandoned multi-denominational church in Cannel City, Kentucky.
The Falls of Rough Mill is an abandoned and partially collapsed mill along the Rough River in Falls of Rough, Kentucky.
History Developed by Leo F. Keiler on land left to Keiler by his uncle, Joseph L. Friedman, the 2,000-seat Columbia Theatre opened on April 18, 1927. 6 7 8 Constructed by Jack Cole, the elaborately designed theater of Palladian, Moorish, and Greek arch …
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