#dilapidated
Boroboro
Drawings of dilapidated buildings in the Japanese countryside Kozy made for our $70 patrons on our Patreon for June 2019. If you subscribe at the $70 level you get some original artwork in the mail every month. Sometimes its just a little sketch or quick painting, other times something more time intensive like these beautiful renderings. Dan wrote about the subject of the old buildings in our blog for $5 and up subscribers. Consider joining us in our Patreon to follow along as we renovate kozy’s 130 year old farmhouse in the Japanese countryside and get something from us in the mail each month!
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After Liberace died in 1987, his ornate and lavishly designed mansion in Las Vegas was sold and later foreclosed and abandoned. During this time its marble floored rooms remained empty, the fireplaces were dusted in soot, the remains of fires from long talks and nights filled with emotions. Today, the mansion is no longer abandoned but a true to its idol masterpiece and event center. However, let us remember the days where we were as empty as its halls once were.
Updated : https://abandonedplaygrounds.com/2021/09/02/liberaces-vegas-candelabra-mansion-abandoned/
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Abandoned Houses in Europe. W-w-whoa.
Photographs by Patrycja Makowska
Just can’t get enough of this!
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The Sterling Inn of Pennsylvania
Hidden Poconos – The Sterling Inn Resort Hotel of the Mountains – Abandoned Playgrounds
It may be purchased and restored soon!
Abandoned Playgrounds presents The Shartlesville Riverboat. —-> https://abandonedplaygrounds.com/2018/11/30/an-abandoned-riverboat-far-away-from-water/
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The House of Mirrors aka Chateau Lumiere. —> https://abandonedplaygrounds.com/2019/03/16/chateau-lumiere-the-house-of-light-and-mirrors/
Halloween dream chateau!
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…many myths involving the empty Baron Empain Palace including that the large home resides on a rotating base or that just the tower itself rotates. These rumors also include a secret tunnel beneath the house that connects it to the nearby Basilica Church, that there was an underground chamber with mirrors that turned red at the Baron’s death. That the Baron’s sister, Baroness Helena, died in the house after falling off the balcony and that his daughter, Miriam, was confined to the house and later killed herself in the basement…
Full Story –> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/baron-empain-palace-abandoned-and-believed-to-be-haunted/
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…Baron Hill Estate was built in 1618 at the request of the Richard Bulkeley. In 1776, architect Samuel Wyatt re-designed the mansion in a Neo-Palladian style. By World War I, the Bulkeley family moved from the mansion and no longer used it as a permanent residence due to lack of funds to maintain the stately home…
Full Story –> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/the-baron-hill-estate-abandoned-ruins-in-beaumaris/
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…the first silk processing occurred in this building as well and in the 1840’s when the demand for silk grew the mill expanded adding 3 new buildings to the lot. The factory expenses began to grow and soon became too much to handle and in 1842 the property was seized for back mortgages…
Full Story —> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/abandoned-gun-mill-the-allied-printers-factories-of-the-silk-city/
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The halls of the Whittingham Asylum, established in 1873 abandoned in 1995. Serious accounts and complaints of abuse, fraud, cruelty and mis-treatment arose in 1967. By 1968, the largest complaints were addressed to the Hospital Management Committee including accounts of patients being locked outside, in cupboards or washrooms, patients being left untreated, patients being dragged by their hair when not obeying, patients being hit, patients only receiving bread and jam or slop to eat, that some wards were infested with vermin and some wards were too hot, too cold or damp. Embezzlement and petty theft were also occurring in the hospital and it was noticed in 1968 that £91,000 were issued as spent for patients yet only £42,000 had been on record by the hospital. After this the Matron and Head Male Nurse retired early, two male nurses were convicted of theft and another nurse was imprisoned for assaulting an elderly patient who died after the attack.
Full story –> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/whittingham-mental-asylum-abandoned-and-possibly-headed-for-full-demolition/
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Hotel Heinrich Heine - Part 3 - The Windows
Check it out —> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/hotel-heinrich-heine-decaying-for-19-years-in-schierke/
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Dusty, dirty, old and worn the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded in Massachusetts. These walls have seen neglect, abuse and overcrowding since 1922.
Full story —> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/belchertown-state-school-for-the-feeble-minded-inhumane-and-abandoned/
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Abandoned Fun Park Fyn in Denmark - An excellent amusement park that closed in 2006.
Full story —> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/abandoned-fun-park-fyn-amusement-park-in-funen/
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Humpty - Dumpty did fall…
Check it out —> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/the-gingerbread-castle-now-lies-abandoned-and-forlorn-in-hamburg/
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The place where Angels and Devils Nest - The Devils Nest abandoned ski lifts and almost mega resort in Nebraska.
Full story –> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/the-abandoned-ski-lifts-at-the-place-where-angels-and-devils-nest/
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