First Ward
At one time in Buffalo's history, the grain elevators dominated the skyline of the waterfront and served as a symbol of Buffalo's...
Buffalo Central Terminal
Buffalo Central Terminal, designed by Fellheimer and Wagner for the New York Central Railroad, opened in 1929 to much celebration. Harder...
Buffalo Psychiatric Center
In 1864 Dr. James White, a leading physician in Buffalo, proposed to the state legislature that an asylum be established in Western New...
Radar Control Center
The US Air Force Radar Control Center was responsible for radar defense against air attacks. Aircraft control and warning were the primary...
Church of the Transfiguration
As the immigrant population of Buffalo grew, the churches of the city's East, primarily Polish side of the city swelled. In Aug. 1893, the...
Railway Express Agency
The Railway Express Agency was the Fedex of its day. REA's arrangement with the railroads was that they provided terminal space and cars...
Buffalo Malting
Buffalo Malting, formerly Kreiner Malting, contains 2 - 90 feet elevators, serving an adjacent malting complex. The A elevator, built in...
Flintkote
Flintkote was originally developed as a paper mill in the late 1800s. It was operated by the Flintkote Company, a manufacturer of felt...
Lockport Power
"Lockport Power" was a three-story brick building erected around 1920 as a power and steam generating station for the paper mills and...
Lockport Train Depot
The Romanesque Style Lockport Train Depot was built in 1888. There was great attention to detail, right down to the bricks used. The...
Jackson Sanitarium
Jackson Sanitarium was originally built in 1854 by Nathaniel Bingham to take advantage of the renowned healing waters of the village. His...
Eastern State
Opened in 1829 as part of a controversial movement to change the behavior of inmates through "confinement in solitude with labor," Eastern...
Holy Land USA
Holy Land USA is a rather interesting collection of...stuff... Built starting in 1956 by an attorney named John Greco, Holy Land was a...
Asbury Park
Asbury Park was "begun" in the late 1800s by a New York industrialist and real estate developer, James A. Bradley. In the resort town's...
Enchanted Forest
Once upon a time, there was a wonderful storybook park in Ellicott City, Maryland called The Enchanted Forest. Opened in 1955, it thrilled...
Battery Factory
The Power City Warehouse was formerly a battery manufacturing facility. Sometime around 1910, U.S. Light and Hest Co., and later Autolite...
Meyer Malting
Meyer Malting Complex is the only 20th century Buffalo facility near the Erie Canal. Established in 1909, the complex is an example of H.R....
Sharon Springs
Sharon Springs is a sulfur bath resort town in Central NY. Development as a mineral water spa began in 1825 with the establishment of David...
Overlook Mountain House
The first hotel built on the mountain was designed and built by 1833 as interest in tourism in the area increased. The structure was built...
Frontier Town
During the golden age of small amusement parks, thousands came to the carefully crafted theme park, Frontier Town. Opened July 4th 1952,...
Tahawus
The Adirondack Iron & Steel Company was built after David Henderson and John McIntyre found “the most extraordinary bed of iron ore, for...
No Where Adirondack
I know nothing about this place. Stumbled upon it while my mom and I drove home from Tahawus. It was near Otter Creek, on one of the...
SC High
In 1916 the school board purchased the lot for what is now the SC High School. The construction of a Junior-Senior High School began in...
Heidelberg Project
The Heidelberg Project began as an outdoor art environment in the heart of Detroit, but it has grown into much more. The Heidelberg...
Carbo-sil
The Carbo-Sil site, once called National Carbon, a division of Union Carbide, produced the graphite that was used by Enrico Fermi in the...
Byberry
The Philadelphia Hospital for Mental Diseases officially began operations in 1912 as a place for those afflicted with diseases of the mind...
The Pines
The Pines resort was built in 1933 with many buildings being added throughout the years. The resort was comprised of 420 guest rooms and...
St Agnes Sanitarium
The St Agnes Tuberculosis Hospital was opened on September 13, 1912 to handle the problem of infectious diseases that filled major cities...
Rhyolite
Rhyolite, Nevada is a ghost town in east of Death Valley near Beatty, Nevada, the Nevada Test Site and Yucca Mountain. The town was named...
Spaulding Fibre
Spaulding Fibre manufactured sheets of fibre material, a pulp composite created with heat and pressure. The material was used for a variety...
Dunlop
There isn't much to say here. Former Dunlop Tire office building. The most boring place on earth.
Hens and Kelly
Hens and Kelly was a Buffalo-based department store known for its use of "green stamps" as a way of saving money and ensuring a customer's...
German Roman Catholic Orphanage
The original location of the Orphan Asylum was established to care for orphans and victims of the 1851 cholera epidemic. However, this...
Michigan Central Station
Designed by the renowned architects Warren & Wetmore and engineers Reed and Stem, who also designed the Grand Central Station in New York...
Bethlehem Steel
In 1922, Lackawanna Steel Co. was acquired by the Bethlehem Steel Company, ending the company's 62-year independence. On May 11, 1922,...
Packard
In 1904, Albert Kahn applied a new building technique that he had learned in Europe--reinforced concrete--to his designs for the 10th...
St Mark's Long Term Care
St Mark's Long Term Care Facility is a long forgotten skilled care nursing home. At one point it employed 200 workers. And that's about it.
Sattler Theatre
This 928-seat, $35,000 "fireproof" theatre was built in 1914, on the site of the old wood-frame Casino Theatre, for $35,000. The architect...
Falls Factory
I know absolutely nothing about this place. Can't figure out what they did there or how long it's been closed for. It was probably part of...
St Anthony's Manor
This Vatican-built nursing home was built in 1902 in north western Pennsylvania. From the beginning the nursing home was plagued with...
Houdaille
A sizable factory that was part of government funded WWII industries. They produced springs and dampeners for military equipment during...
Memorial Auditorium
The Buffalo Memorial Auditorium (The Aud) opened on October 14, 1940 and was renovated in 1970 and 1990. It was closed in 1996 following...
Carrie Furnaces
Towering 92 feet over the Monongahela River, constructed of 2.5" thick steel plate and lined with refractory brick, Carrie Furnaces 6 and 7...
Castle of Mesen
Built and destroyed many times, what remains from this building dates mainly from the beginning of the 17th century. Designed by famous...
Fisher Body 21
The Fisher Body Plant 21 is located in the Piquette Avenue Industrial Historic District in Detroit Michigan. It was designed in 1919 by...
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army Harbor Light Center, also known as the Park Avenue Hotel was designed by Louis Kamper for Lew Tuller and is on the...
St Agnes Church and School
St. Agnes had been a Catholic parish established in Detroit in 1913. The church featured both a high school and grade school, eventually...
Aztec Tomb
The Ballroom was designed in 1929 by Charles N. Agree as a flamboyant venue in which to socialize, dance and hear music. The ballroom was a...
Fort Pitt
Founded in 1906 by C.S. Koch, Fort Pitt Steel Castings Co. was built on 13 acres in what was then Versailles Township. Koch's death in 1937...
First Baptist
In 1819, a non-denominational meeting-house was erected in the city of McKeesport on a parcel of ground donated by Mr. John McKee. On June...
Penn-McKee Hotel
The Penn-McKee hotel was opened in 1926 and quickly became the place for weddings, club meetings, and a variety of special events. It has a...
Trans-Alleghany Lunatic Asylum
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, constructed between 1858 and 1881, is the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America, and...
West Virginia State Penitentiary
The West Virginia State Penitentiary is a retired, gothic style prison located in Moundsville, West Virginia. It operated from 1876 to 1995...
Ambassador Apartments
Built in 1928 the Ambassador Apartments featured the best amenities and thus catered to the high society of Gary Indiana. Designed by...
City Methodist
Built in 1925, the classic Gothic edifice was the result of an ambitious priest backed by U.S. Steel dollars. The steel company donated the...
Gary Post Office
The Post Office building was erected in 1936 as part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal program. Architect Howard Lovewell Cheney, who...
Gary Screw and Bolt
Pittsburgh Bolt and Screw Works started construction of a new plant in Gary Indiana in 1910, with doors opening in 1912. Like many other...
Palace Theater
The Palace Theater was designed by John Eberson and built by "Max and Sons" in 1924. When the theater opened it featured live stage shows,...
2300 Jackson Street
2300 Jackson Street is the childhood home of Michael Jackson, his 2 parents, 3 sisters, and 5 brothers. Yes that is 11 people living in...
Curtiss Wright
Curtiss-Wright came into existence on July 5, 1929, the result of a merger of 12 companies associated with Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor...
Chernobyl
At 1:23 am on April 26, 1986, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered a catastrophic explosion and fire during a...
St Matthew's
St Matthew's was founded in 1908 by Rev. George Sellinger, and the church was completed in 1928 at a cost of $225,000. The design for St....
Mansfield Reformatory
The cornerstone laid on November 4, 1886 evolved into this magnificent Chateauesque structure. Cleveland architect Levi T. Scofield...
Republic Rubber
From "History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Ohio" as found at http://www.archive.org/stream/historyyoungsto00butlgoog...
Salem Evangelical
The Salem Evangelical Reformed Church was designed by architect Jacob Oberkircher and built in 1907. Oberkircher's church replaced a wooden...
Stuebenville Steel
This Wheeling-Pitt Steel Mill was originally constructed by LaBelle Iron Works in 1899 on the site of a 3 year old nail factory, who...
Canada Linseed
The factory was built in 1915 by Montreal-based Canada Linseed Oil Mills, Ltd. and processed linseed oil (also known as flaxseed oil)....
Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church was built in 1913 thanks to a generous purchase by the Larkin Company of the original church property,...
Trinity German Baptist Church
The First German Baptist Church was built in 1869. It was the 4th Baptist church in Buffalo, and the 3rd German Baptist church in the...
Holley High
This Neo-Classical Revival building was built in 1931. Designed by Rochester architect and school specialist, Carl Ade, the former High...
Pocono Resorts
The Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania are dotted with old resort hotels, which were Honeymoon destinations, as well as fairly quick vacation...
Budd Manufacturing
The Budd Manufacturing plant is a conglomeration of 20 buildings totaling 2.4 million square feet on 75 acres. Built in 1917 by Giffels &...
Elementary School
A generic public elementary school built in 1938, it closed to new students in 1979, and was used as offices and warehouse storage, mostly...
Our Lady of Lourdes
Built in 1898, at a cost of about $100,000, Our Lady of Lourdes was a French church in a German neighborhood. Originally a parish founded...
Fallsside Hotel
This hotel was part of various chains over the years, ending it's days as an independent hotel. Two of the buildings on the site were built...
Tried Stone Baptist
Located in a neighborhood founded by Jewish Detroiters and immigrants beginning in 1917, Tried Stone Baptist Church used to be Beth Teflio...
Abundant Life Christian Center
The Abundant Life Christian Center, formerly Calvary Presbyterian, was built in 1917, at a cost of $70,000. As the parish grew, an addition...
St David's School
From the state of Michigan Historic Preservation Register: "The Saint David School and Convent are Lombard Romanesque-style, red-brick...
St Edith's
This church was initially built in 1896 as a German church. The current structure was built to accommodate a growing congregation in 1916....