Surveying The Damage With Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences
A picture is worth a thousand words, but some can leave you speechless. We caught up with photographer Matthew Christopher to discuss a nation in architectural decline and his new book, "Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences" > more
Photographing The Abandoned City
Vincent Feldman's long-awaited book presents a haunting portrait of Philadelphia in the 1990s and early 2000s, when so many remarkable buildings were vacant or in ruins. We spoke with him last week > more
Colonial Ruins On The 12th Hole
On the back side of the back nine at Sedgley Woods Golf Course, a ruin has become a canvas for graffiti writers. Brad Maule finds many a famous name in the story of The Cliffs in Fairmount Park > more
Two New Books Provide A Fitting Eulogy To Byberry State Hospital
House of horrors? From 1990, when it closed, until 2006, when it was demolished, the legend of Byberry State Hospital in the Northeast grew in our imagination. Now two new books aim to set the complicated record straight. Ethan Wallace has the review > more
Schuylkill View, Manayunk
In Manayunk, a crazy, jagged stone roofline led Ben Leech up a set of stairs and onto the remains of an estate called Schuylkill View > more
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