Instead of seeking out nature’s splendors amidst the highlands of West Virginia or the horse farms of Kentucky, I embarked on a journey to document the derelict abandonments scattered across our region. There is an undeniable beauty to be found in these forgotten structures, a visual poetry in the peeling paint and rusting machinery that echoes the grandeur of stately trees and grazing livestock.
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Could the Memorial Hall in Ironton, Ohio be the next to fall after Springfield’s Memorial Hall fell in late 2010?
We have all been there. A ominous derelict is on the horizon – this one being a hospital in Man, West Virginia.
Mother Nature wasn’t kind in some respects on the drive down into Wyoming County to visit the coal camp of Glen Rogers, West Virginia.
Opened in 1988 as Forest Fair Mall, Cincinnati Mall in Forest Park, Ohio, was once the region’s largest retail complex. Developed during the height of suburban expansion, the 1.5-million-square-foot center cycled through bankruptcies, rebrandings, and multimillion-dollar renovations under successive owners. Despite periods of renewed occupancy, structural vacancy persisted. By the late 2000s, ambitious redevelopment proposals—including a hotel, ice arena, and indoor water park—failed to secure financing. The mall’s trajectory reflects broader patterns of suburban retail instability in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
The finale in a five-part summer excursion includes a visit to several abandoned schools and the infamous Sweet Springs Resort!
Clarksburg, West Virginia, can be aptly described as a city that arose around the glass and coal industries, having been an essential stop along the Northwestern Turnpike, now known as U.S. Route 50.
Beautiful, warm weather, coupled with explorations of various historical and abandoned structures, always beats off the winter blues.
The Vernon Manor, constructed in 1924 and modeled after the Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, England, was one of the premier hotels in Cincinnati, Ohio.
As the season of Halloween approaches, it is time to explore the annals of my favored derelict structures and allegedly haunted locales.