As we stood static beneath the crumbling mural of the apse, a cold wind fluttered in through the openings surrounding us. Where once stained glass was held in place now remain bare frames circling the upper walls, pouring chilled air into the desolate chapel, and down towards the altar like waterfalls into a small oasis. The fluttering of birds fills
I’ve always admired how the sun can greet these structures every day the same as it has since the day they were built onto our Earth, lighting them up in magnificent ways.
I sat scrunched up in the mouth of a tall, skinny window where its glass panes had been broken away, with my back and feet against each side of its frame. My feet kicked away bits of the cracking paint from its edges as I sat with a vast world of silence on either side of me; each one its
This Adamesque architectural masterpiece was built during the year of 1917, and finally opened its doors as The Liberty Theatre in 1918; a monumental, ornately brilliant structure designed by Detroit architect C. Howard Crane along with associate architects Stanley & Scheibel, looking out over the streets of Central Youngstown.
Let’s now take a venture down Taylor Road of East Cleveland, about 4 miles from Case University. This road just off of Euclid Avenue once housed Cleveland’s amazing space observatory and school; The Case School of Applied Science, or better known as ‘The Warner & Swasey Observatory.” The structure was built in 1919 by Worchester R. Warner and Ambrose Swasey
Apologies for the lack of recent updates as I am currently working on researching and writing up sections for a few places which I will be posting soon. I have been writing them as I have had spare moments of time. I should be able to get one posted tomorrow though!
On Sunday, August 5, 2001 a report was filed for 30 center residents escaping from the institution. Now free to roam the streets and yards throughout the city, leaving civilians in a state of panic, fearing for their homes and safety. It was common for residents to carry police scanners with having the center located in the center of their neighborhood.
Rolling Acres Mall was developed by Forest City Enterprises. It opened in Akron, Ohio with Sears and 21 stores on August 6, 1975, and had more than 50 stores by year’s end. JCPenney opened a year later as a second anchor. A new wing, called the Court of Aquarius, was added in 1977, including a large aquarium (which was later removed) and a third anchor store, Montgomery Ward.
The structure was built in 1903 by architect Frank S. Barnum and was named for the street it faced, at the time being Willson. Later on in 1905 the city adapted to a numbered-street system as was used through NYC and Chicago. This idea was proposed by Eliot Ness who after hunting Al Capone, became Safety Director for the city of Cleveland.
Nature will always take its course over our man-made arrangement of architecture. It will regain its space, and incorporate our forgotten structures into part of its natural, artistic being; leaving a framework of our creations and creating an abstract representation of what once was. Our trash becomes the Earths muse to take over and create. What nature produces, then becomes the muse of those intrigued by urban exploration.
