The abandoned Republic Rubber factory, located in Youngstown, Ohio, was a manufacturer of tires and hoses for the automotive and aerospace industries. At its peak, Republic employed 2,300 with a payroll of $4 million. The factory closed in 1989.
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National Acme, a merger of two notable machine tool manufacturers, is an abandoned factory in Cleveland, Ohio. At its height, National Acme was one of the largest manufacturers of machine tools in the United States.
The abandoned Warner & Swasey Observatory, constructed by Worchester Warner and Ambrose Swasey as a gift for Case School of Applied Science, is located in East Cleveland, Ohio.y
The Alderson Academy is a former Baptist-affiliated school in West Virginia. After its merger with Broaddus College in Philippi, the Alderson campus was mothballed. Two other colleges reused the building before the structure was abandoned in the 1990’s.
The now-demolished Greenbrier High School consisted of two distinct properties in Ronceverte, West Virginia.
The Ronceverte Christian Church is a closed Christian church in Ronceverte, West Virginia. Constructed in 1886, it was the first and only sanctuary in Greenbrier County for years.
The Grand Theater, built in 1937 in the streamlined Art Deco style, stood in downtown Ronceverte, West Virginia.
St. Michael Church is a former Roman Catholic church in Munhall, Pennsylvania. It was founded as a Slovak parish in 1897 and served the Slovakian community who tendered to Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company.
The Staats Hospital Building contained a hospital, theater, and the Glendale Lodge Knights of Pythias in the Elk City district of Charleston, West Virginia.
The Budd Company’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania plant manufactured railroad cars, airframes, automobile components, and other industrial products.
Tompkins County Poorhouse is an abandoned county home for the poor and mentally disabled located in New York.
The gymnasium at Padua Preparatory School is the last remnant of the Padua Minor Seminary and Preparatory School in New York.
The Moser Leather Company was a manufacturer of high-grade leather for harnesses and collar manufacturers in New Albany, Indiana.