Escape

It's such a shame that in this country we allow these beautiful buildings to become reduced to rubble to replace them with lifeless structures. Even left to ruin, these buildings have such beauty and character.

Reminds me of the rear of a New York tenement?

Like a scene from Life After People.

A D Nilsen- This is exactly what these pictures remind me of.
Mother Earth reclaiming her land.

I agree again with AD Nilsen...and with ferdy.

Mother Earth will ALWAYS take back what is hers. :)

Love the tile work on the bottom. It reminds me of a Villa in France.

Funny, I was thinking that the tile work at the bottom looks out of place.

I always find it interesting when a building has been around for years(ans is still in use) and modifications or additons have been added. It looks like you could peel back layers and get to the original structure. does this sentence make any sense to anyone?

It does to me. Right in the middle of the city I live in, is this magnificent structure, an old brick Victorian mansion. It's in a state of decay now and part of the roof has been missing for a number of years so you can imagine it's condition. Collapsed floors, boarded up windows, this place has it all. And the best part is, it's up for sale. It's an Urbex's dream and has been in the back of my mind to buy this place. It's certainly affordable now, but the restoration costs would probably be aastronomical. If it were restored to it's original one family state, it could be a showplace. It's a nice dream but the other side of that is if someone buys this place and chops it up into apartments. Yuck

Oh sure Fla. Gator. Makes perfect sense to me. There's a TV show on DIY Network called "If Walls Could Talk" and it deals with that very subject. They've done stories about home owners who have undergone a renovation to find hidden fireplaces, beautiful tin ceilings, hidden staircases, even letters from Civil War Solders.

Just an update on my comment above - someone DID buy that place. I noticed a new roof on it, which was obviously put there to stop the decay. Can't wait to see what they do to this building, I hope someone makes it into a home.

Glad to hear it, Eldokid. I hope so too. I too see and appreciate the layers here, literally from the top down; Gothic to 50s motel. Awesome.

I COULD be wrong, (It HAS happened,LOL!) but I believe the "tile" on the porch, etc., are actually perforated decorative
cinder blocks/fire bricks stacked and mortared into columns... At a different angle you could probably look right through the molded openings in the blocks...(I used to have a bunch of similar blocks stacked up with boards for shelving)
Just methinks!