Main entry:

Skrdla, Harry.

Title & Author:

Ghostly ruins : America's forgotten architecture / Harry Skrdla.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2006.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Introduction -- Disclaimer -- Author's Note -- Chapter 1: Transportation -- The Ship Graveyard -- The Michigan Central Depot -- The City Hall IRT Station -- Chapter 2: Industry -- The Schoellkopf Power Station -- The Packard Motors Plant -- The Bethlehem Steel Mill -- The Colonel Ward Pumping Station -- Chapter 3: Commerce -- Bannerman's Castle -- The Book-Cadillac Hotel -- Chin Tiki -- Chapter 4: Public Works -- The Danvers State Hospital -- Centralia -- Eastern State Penitentiary -- Bodie -- Chapter 5: Home -- Wyndcliffe -- Brush Park -- Windsor -- Chapter 6: Amusement -- The United Artists Theatre -- Chippewa Lake Park -- The New York State Pavilion -- Chapter 7: Reincarnation -- The Palace of Fine Arts -- The Minneapolis Stone Arch Bridge -- The West Baden Springs Hotel -- Chapter 8: Epitaphs -- Saltair -- The Wayne County Training School -- Hudson's -- Idora Park -- Belle Grove Plantation -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Credits.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9781568986159 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1568986157 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Photography, Artistic.
Abandonment of property United States Pictorial works.
Photographie artistique.
Abandon de biens États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
art photography.
Abandonment of property.
Ruine USA Bildband.
Architectural photography United States.
Rovine architettura Stati Uniti d'America.
Aree dismesse Stati Uniti d'America.
United States.
USA Ruine Bildband.

Form/genre:

Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248122
Call No.: BIB 177656
Status: Available