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St. John Berchmans Catholic Church and School

St. John Berchmans Catholic Church and School

St. John Berchmans Catholic Church and School is a former combination church and school in Detroit, Michigan. After it closed in 1986, it remained vacant until it was reopened as the Colin Powell Academy, a charter school. After being plagued with financial and academic difficulties, it closed in 2010.

Van Dorn Iron Works

Van Dorn Iron Works

The Van Dorn Iron Works Company is a former factory on 79th Street in the Kinsman neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.

Cleveland Railway Company Cedar Avenue Substation

Cleveland Railway Company Cedar Avenue Substation

The Cedar Avenue Substation for the Cleveland Railway Company was constructed in 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio. It was the first automatic substation for the company in the city, located across the street from the Cedar Avenue power plant, which was then at the time the largest non-condensing direct-current plant in the United States.

Dillard's

Lexington Mall

The Lexington Mall is a former indoor shopping mall on Richmond Road in Lexington, Kentucky. Completed in 1975 by Saul Centers, it was the second indoor shopping center in the city.

Wean United

Wean United

Wean United is a former manufacturer of equipment that was used to process and finish flat-rolled steel, steel and iron rolls, iron castings, coupling boxes, annealing bottoms, and boxes and steam hydraulic forging presses in Youngstown, Ohio. It was equipped to produce castings and rolls weighing up to 100 tons.

St. Joseph Byzantine Catholic Church

St. Joseph Byzantine Catholic Church

St. Joseph Church is a former Byzantine Catholic church in the Union-Miles Park neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. It featured Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles. The church closed in 1980 because of a declining congregation and was repurposed for another church before becoming abandoned in 2002. The building was removed in 2016.

Jeannette Glass

Jeannette Glass

The Jeannette Glass Company is a former glass factory in Jeannette, Pennsylvania.

Victor Brewing Company

Victor Brewing Company

The Victor Brewing Company, a former brewery, was located in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. It was in operation from 1908 to 1941 and was then sold to Fort Pitt Brewery and remained in operation until 1955. The buildings were then used by the Papercraft Corporation until the mid-1970’s.

Shenango China

Shenango China

The Shenango China Company, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, is a former manufacturer of Incaware, restaurant china with a light colored background and decoration.

Ravenna Grade School

Ravenna Grade School

The Ravenna Grade School is a former school that operated from 1927 to 1998 in Ravenna, Kentucky.

Kentucky River Lock & Dam No. 14

Kentucky River Locks & Dams

The Kentucky River features a series of 14 locks and dams, some operational and some closed, stretching from Carrollton to Beattyville, Kentucky.

Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine and Beattyville Railroad

Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine & Beattyville Railroad

The Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine & Beattyville Railroad (RNI&B, Riney-B) is a former railroad between Frankfort and Beattyville, Kentucky. In its original form, the RNI&B extended from Versailles and Irvine, Kentucky. It was acquired by another railroad in 1899 and extended to Beattyville and Airedale. Another acquisition extended the line west to Frankfort, giving the RNI&B a total of 110 miles.

Jefferson School

Jefferson School

The Jefferson School is a now-demolished school at 1401 McColloch Street, Wheeling, West Virginia.

Glencoe-Auburn Place

Glencoe-Auburn Place

Glencoe-Auburn was a collection of 19th-century rowhouses in the Mt. Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, characterized by single-colored pastel facades and a Gothic Revival-style hotel. It was Cincinnati’s first suburb.

Hopewell Bridge

Eastern Kentucky Railway

The Eastern Kentucky Railway (EK) is a former 36-mile railroad between Riverton (Greenup) and Webbville, Kentucky. Although it served several mines and early pig-iron blast furnaces, the EK was abandoned in 1933 during the height of the Great Depression.

Forest Fair Mall / Cincinnati Mills / Cincinnati Mall

Cincinnati Mall

Cincinnati Mall, formerly known as Forest Fair Mall and Cincinnati Mills, is an ailing shopping center in Fairfield, Ohio.

Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Hawks Nest Subdivision

Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Hawks Nest Subdivision

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Hawks Nest Subdivision is an abandoned 3.4-mile branch from Hawks Nest Station to Ansted, West Virginia. It was originally conceived as a narrow-gauge line alongside Mill Creek.

Nicholas, Fayette & Greenbrier Railway

Nicholas, Fayette & Greenbrier Railway

The Nicholas, Fayette & Greenbrier Railway (NF&G) is a former railroad, controlled by the C&O and NYC, that was named after the three counties it served in the New River coal field in West Virginia.