Abandoned Houses

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:46 pm

I spend a lot of time wandering around the hinterlands and I'm always intrigued by old houses and cabins in the middle of nowhere.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:51 pm

Most of these are on private land. I know the story of some, but for the most part I know nothing about their history.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:52 pm

Somewhere in southern New Mexico.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:56 pm

This is the same house, different times of year. This one was demolished 7 or 8 years ago.
There's a big new business where this house used to sit.

DCComic · Post by **DCComic** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:57 pm

Nice. Post more?
It's be good to see interiors.
Some of the Scottish islands have abandoned crofts that look as if somebody just walked away without taking anything with them.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:59 pm

Thanks. I was thinking about interiors too, but I don't have those kind of photos. Sorry.
Feel free to post your own abandoned house photos.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:02 pm

I know the guy that owns this one. Off the grid, it was abandoned about 20 years ago.
Pretty much a junk storage site now. You could probably break in and live for a year before anyone noticed.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:04 pm

This old cabin was in southern Arizona. I heard it has since collapsed.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:09 pm

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:18 pm

Bill Barilko · Post by **Bill Barilko** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:40 pm

We used to see lots of same in Canada in the 60's, 70's & into the 80's-after WW2 there was a general migration to cities & towns and rural life as it had been largely disappeared-my Dad could recite the histories of countless abandoned houses where we used to hunt Grouse or pick berries in season their former families were people he grew up/went to school with.

Steve_in_Exile · Post by **Steve_in_Exile** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:46 pm

Here are a couple I had posted a few years back, from Dangriga, Belize. For some reason they fascinate me too.

Bill Barilko · Post by **Bill Barilko** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:55 pm

There were some beauties in the Vava'u archipelago down in Tonga-whole families who were fairly well off just pulling up sticks from big decent looking wood houses and never coming back-some amazing looking architecture fallen into ruin.

Stan In Maryland · Post by **Stan In Maryland** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:51 pm

I agree about a fascination with abandoned homes, although I have no pictures. With some I think it is such a shame that a really interesting old house had been allowed to deteriorate. Almost always they leave me feeling a bit sad wondering about the lives of the people who lived there and the broken hopes and dreams that the house represents. I guess it could be equally a happy story when the person struck it rich and moved to a better place, but that doesn't seem to fit somehow. Perhaps I just enjoy having morose thoughts.

polardude1 · Post by **polardude1** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:30 pm

Clsoe to the Susquahanna River, Pennsylvania

Abandoned hospital, Yangon, Myanmar

snowgirl · Post by **snowgirl** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 8:42 pm

Some great photos here, peeps. nice work. I like looking at abandoned houses too. It doesn't;t make me melancholy like Stan, more just thoughtful. I try to picture what it was like to live in that house. Maybe I should take pics. These are cool.

Nines · Post by **Nines** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 4:12 am

I'm with Stan. A couple of TR's pics of abandoned homes aren't that old of a structure.

Not sure why anyone would walk away from that unless something bad happened.

Steve_in_Exile · Post by **Steve_in_Exile** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 11:48 am

Here's one with some interesting choices of building materials...

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 3:20 pm

Nice additions from Steve and Polardude. I like the house covered in vines in Pennsylvania.

Nines wrote:Not sure why anyone would walk away from that unless something bad happened.

I was thinking that particularly regarding the large house with the green aluminum roof that I posted. That picture was taken the day before I posted this and it's what made me think about it. Some of them might have been an upgrade and a move, but others might have been death, hardship, or foreclosure.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 3:26 pm

Big barn and the smaller boarded up house to the right.

Another angle of the big barn showing how it's falling down. Since this photo was taken, it has completely collapsed.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 3:51 pm

This one is a real shame. It has been abandoned for at least 15 years, you can see it's boarded up.
Someone will eventually fix it up, but I've always wondered the story behind it. It's quite large and you hope it's not beyond repair.

DCComic · Post by **DCComic** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:42 pm

Yell,
Shetland

Benbecula,
Outer Hebrides

Blackhouse
As one of the most primitive forms of the North Atlantic longhouse tradition it is very probable that the roots of the blackhouse, in which cattle and humans shared the same roof, is well over 1000 years old. The Lewis examples have clearly been modified to survive in the tough environment of the Outer Hebrides. Low rounded roofs, elaborately roped, were developed to resist the strong Atlantic winds and thick walls to provide insulation and to support the sideways forces of the short driftwood roof timbers

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:56 pm

Nice ones, DCComic. The interiors are a nice touch, I like the image with the stove and the couches. All the old beds in one room. What was once someone's living area is now filled with blue barrels and pallets.

DCComic · Post by **DCComic** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:02 pm

The picture with a stove in the middle has a drying rail on pulleys over it, with coat-hangers still there, curtains at the window and a picture frame to the left where the picture has collapsed out of it, presumably from getting damp.

section8 · Post by **section8** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:22 am

The community of Old Bettles. 8 miles down river from Bettles. It was mostly abandoned by the 1960s, but there was one guy living there by himself until the mid-90s.

Steve_in_Exile · Post by **Steve_in_Exile** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:04 am

Hey S8, what is that thing hanging on the wall. At first I thought it was some type of animal trap, but I don't think so...

section8 · Post by **section8** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:40 am

I thought it was a snare.

Bill Barilko · Post by **Bill Barilko** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:45 am

section8 wrote:I thought it was a snare.

It's two different things the one with the circular metal around the handle is itself a handle for lifting off the burner lids that allow wood to be added to a stove-that's not a great description but that's what it is.

Something like this

The second thing hanging there I dunno.

Steve_in_Exile · Post by **Steve_in_Exile** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:48 am

Yeah I was thinking snares also but not quite sure. Maybe that handle type thing with the coiled wire is a separate item.

section8 · Post by **section8** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:50 am

I think Bill's right.

Steve_in_Exile · Post by **Steve_in_Exile** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:52 am

I think there may be two animal snares wrapped up together. Looks like there is some kind of cable lock mechanisms on the cables, which would be consistent with snares.

RedsailsII · Post by **RedsailsII** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:28 pm

Japan is full of crumbling houses. The nation is depopulating and becoming a giang ghost town.

avalon_ · Post by **avalon_** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:33 am

These are all interesting photos. There are some I'd like to photograph, but I'm always passing by so quickly.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:29 pm

Was out driving around again last week and stumbled on some more.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:32 pm

This one I was able to look inside.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:30 pm

Not sure what happened there...

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:36 pm

This one was creepy.

Total Reject · Post by **Total Reject** » Sun May 07, 2017 8:26 pm