What once was a 1,700 seat movie palace in Downtown Youngstown, is now a shell of its former self. The Paramount Theatre opened as a vaudeville house by the name of the Liberty Theater in February of 1918.
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Formerly known as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, the Richardson Olmsted Complex stands today with its iconic Gothic towers at 141 years old. Construction began in 1870, designed by American architect Henry Hobson Richardson and American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and was completed approximately 20 years later.
Towards the end of Spring, I had the opportunity to escape New York. After months of planning, I finally embarked upon a nine day adventure exploring states throughout the Midwest.
“When Charles Dickens visited America in 1842, he wanted to see just two things — Niagara Falls and Eastern State.” In 1829, when the Eastern State Penitentiary was built, it was the largest and most expensive public structure in the country.
Built in 1919, with its name commemorating the end of World War I, The Victory Theatre is Holyoke’s last surviving vaudeville theater today. The Victory Theatre switched from vaudeville and silent films to an all-movies format in 1931.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is a quarter of a mile long, covering nine acres in Weston, West Virginia. The hospital’s main building is one of the largest hand-cut stone masonry buildings in Unites States.
Sitting quietly amongst the busy office buildings of downtown Birmingham, is a former luxury hotel known by many names over its several decades of operation.
The silk processing industry was established sometime between the late 1800′s and early 1900′s in the United States. Silk was desired mainly by women for luxurious stockings, dresses, and scarves.
This Massachusetts State School is the oldest institution for the retarded in the country and has been running since its construction began in 1848.
Georgia Lunatic Asylum is in an extreme state of decay. Everything was falling. The ceiling, doors and floors – they were all falling apart.