Ghostly ruins : America's forgotten architecture / Harry Skrdla.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: First editionDescription: 224 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1568986157
- 9781568986159
- 779.092 22
- TR655 .S58 2006
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779.092 SHE Cindy Sherman : the complete untitled film stills. | 779.092 SIM A different state of mind / | 779.092 SIS Aaron Siskind 100. | 779.092 SKR Ghostly ruins : America's forgotten architecture / | 779.092 SLE Ten series/106 photographs / | 779.092 SMI W. Eugene Smith : his photographs and notes / | 779.092 SMI Robert Smithson : learning from New Jersey and elsewhere / |
"With Ghostly Ruins, author Harry Skrdla guides your tour of thirty abandoned locations from around the country - homes and hotels, power plants and prisons, whole neighborhoods and even entire towns. These are the happy memories of your grandparents' and great-grandparents' childhoods, such as the United Artists movie palace in Detroit, the rollercoasters at Chippewa Lake Park in Medina, Ohio, and the Palace of Fine Arts from the Chicago World's Fair." "And then there are the structures that were massive and forbidding even at their peaks, before falling to disrepair: the Bethlehem Steel Mill and Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania and Bannerman's Castle, a munitions depot stranded on a lonely island in upstate New York. Even the works of some of our nation's most revered architects are not impervious to decay. Witness Albert Kahn's Packard Plant and Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion." "Perhaps eeriest of all are the ghost towns of Bodie, California and Centralia, Pennsylvania, where a trash fire in a nearby mine exploded into an underground inferno in 1962. The fire still blazes today. Skrdla shows you all this and more, telling the tale of each place in its prime and the story behind its fall, accompanied by more than two hundred photographs depicting these locations at both yesterday's historic heights and today's decrepit depths."--BOOK JACKET.
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