#lost places
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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…It is unknown when exactly this house was abandoned but it must have been sometime after the 1980′s due to the fact that the heater in the flooded basement is labeled “Sterling Oil Company”, a business which came to being in 1983 for Virginia residents. The basement looks to be flooded with at least 3 to 4 feet of stagnant water…
Full Story —> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/the-abandoned-green-house-and-flooded-basement-in-virginia/
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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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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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In 1930 the Ouerbacker house was used as the base of operations of a tax business, the Holland Tax Service. It was in use until around the late 1990′s. Afterwards it seems that the home began to deteriorate and slowly become completely uninhabitable.
Full story —> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/the-abandoned-kentucky-ouerbacker-mansion-crumbling-in-style/
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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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Notice all the dead birds and their droppings? The St. John’s Orphanage For Boys in NSW, Australia. Abandoned since the early 1990’s it has been used as a home for some pigeons since. Only in the communal bathrooms though. Check out more -> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/st-johns-orphanage-for-boys-decaying-and-abandoned-in-goulburn/
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The Medfield State Hospital was built in 1892. It was used as the Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane in the 2009 thriller, Shutter Island. It was abandoned in 2003. The grounds are open to the public but entry into the buildings is prohibited.
More –> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/the-abandoned-medfield-state-hospital-used-in-shutter-island/
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The Abandoned Pines Resort of the Borscht Belt in Fallsburg, NY.
Photo : Steven Bley / Flickr
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More of this wasteland here https://abandonedplaygrounds.com/2018/12/04/fallout-3-abandoned-places-and-settings-in-video-game/
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One rad former table at the abandoned Miami Marine Stadium.
More –> http://www.abandonedplaygrounds.com/the-abandoned-giant-graffiti-paradise-of-miami-marine-stadium/
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Abandoned - America’s Vanishing Landscape Eric Holubow
“Through his striking photography, Eric Holubow provides a glimpse inside these perilous structures to reveal the slow but unforgiving wear and tear that has befallen many of the country’s forgotten sites. What transpires is a surprising, yet undeniable beauty beneath the rubble and decrepitude.”
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Dear Universe,
Show me the way!
Sincerely,
A lost one
