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This is spectacular. The colors & beauty in all this destruction is captured perfectly.

Was it abandoned before it burned or was it abandoned because it burned? Looks like one of the fire doors burned...

I don't think a firedoor is going to do much good now?

Larry D. stole my word, spectacular. I LOVE how we can see the layers of brick, rock, and cement(?) in this shot. What a wonderful shot!

It looks like an unearthed archaeological dig site.

Way cool! That red really stands out. :)

Excellent photo of the charbroiled doors surrounded by those lovely stones and brick.

favorite....ever.

Nicely composed, great array of textures!

i would like to know the history of Ancilla Domini Academy. please post if found(from 1950 to closing)

Here is a brief history of Ancilla Domini Academy. In 1952, it opened as a private Catholic girls boarding and day school, conducted by the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. As the demographics of Philadelphia changed, lower Germantown became a high-crime area and definitely an unsafe neighborhood for a girls' school. At the same time, a lack of vocations to the religious life meant fewer nuns teaching, etc, and a decision was made to close the school rather than raise tuition costs in keeping with ever-increasing lay teacher's salaries. In its final year, the last graduating class of seniors attended
LaSalle College High School at 8605 Cheltenham Avenue, Wyndmoore, as the property on Church Lane in Germantown was sold to Manna Bible College, an African American institute of higher studies.

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
With a crooked fire door!!