All upright thing end — architecture let in . Yesterday , we showed younine buildingslost to the sands of sentence . You — hundreds of you — react with your own contributions to the list . Who get laid there were so many mourned buildings ?
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Richfield Oil tower in Los Angeles, 1928-1969
[ tonyschmo ; paradigm : Martin Turnbull ]
Philadelphia’s Broad Street Station 1881-1953
[ carbonrain ; Images : Wikipedia ]
Cincinnati’s Old Main Library, 1874-1955
“ Cincinnati dweeb here . It ’s remarkable how little attention is paid to this building , even among the circles of the City ’s plentiful history and computer architecture nerds . Photographic documentation of the building is unbelievably sparse , but it ’s a complete gem . ” [ andyfortson;timateo81 ; figure of speech : Moon to lunar month ]
Minneapolis Metropolitan Building, 1890-1961
“ Once , in college , while procrastinating studying for some overly specific elective course on an engineering subject I knew I ’d never pertain again , I came acrossa book that look interesting .
This book first introduced me to the greatly lamented Metropolitan Building in Minneapolis , that pull off to escape other rounds of building razing , but was bulldoze in 1961 , after surviving so long . This construction was , to appointment , the most beautiful and momentous construction in Minnesota . ” [ bdsimmons2 ; Images : Wikipedia ]
BrainForestadds that “ it was also a very innovative building , with a full - height atrium and trash elevators , floor , and stairs , so authority sustain innate light from inside and out . ”
The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, 1893-1906
“ No shout out to the liberal arts building from the Chicago world ’s fair ? That construction was quite the looker in my opinion . ” [ CheesyJif ; Images : Domu ]
Omaha Post Office Building, 1898-1966
I always mourned that I never got to see the one-time Omaha Post Office construction , pull down in 1966 . [ MrGlitch ; prototype : Omaha.com ]
Atlantic City’s Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel, 1906-1978
[ lemonsmarkandNargus ; Images : WikipediaandWoodhaven Historic ]
Reno’s Mapes Hotel, 1947-2000
[ Gary ; Image : Scott SchrantzandAround Carson ]
Rochester’s Central Station, 1914-1978
“ Rochester , NY lost many buildings during urban renewal – but our turn a loss train station was pretty bad . Central Station in Rochester is rated as the 7th most beautiful string post in the US – but was demolished in the 60s ( our impermanent place has been in place ever since … yikes ) . ” [ Dan Howell ; figure of speech : Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ]
Muncie Delaware County Courthouse, 1885-1966
“ Mostly because it was supercede bythis monstrosity . ” [ dhbaldwin ; simulacrum : Davis County Courthouse ]
Detroit’s Old City Hall, 1871-1961
“ I would nominate Old City Hall in Detroit for this tilt . Built in 1871 , razed in 1961.”[Newspapermann ; figure : Historic Detroit ]
Boston’s Elevated El Train, 1900s-1987
“ Not a building , but I was sad to see the elevate eastward course go in Boston . ” [ fadecomic ; Images : Boston Public Libraryand The Elevated ]
The Portland Hotel, 1884-1951
“ destroy to make way for the sink known as Pioneer Courthouse Square . ” [ Brandon Freel;Image : The Oregon History Project ]
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Auto Showroom, 1957-2012
“ I feel that interiors are often overlooked when it do to preservation . Traditionally , we prioritise the facade disregardless of what in reality happen to the guts of the building — the programmatic space that , increasingly , gives a structure its identicalness or , at the very least , is typically in conversation with its exterior—(a point that ’s been flaring up in relation to the Folk Art Museum ) . ” [ Gary - X ]
John Marshall High School, 1901-1960s
The John Marshall High School in Richmond VA was demolished in the 60s . When it was build in 1909 it was considered the nicest , grandest ( and most expensive ) high school in the South . [ HiMyNameIsJayAgain ; Image : Vintage Richmond ]
Portland, Maine’s Union Station, 1888-1961
“ In Portland Maine we recede this beautiful train place which was replaced by a striptease mall with a Dollar Tree . The new train post is in a ridiculous location that is impossible to take the air to . WTF ? ” [ HighStrungLoner ]
“ In the mid- to late-1800s , my city of Bangor , Maine , was the timber Washington of the world and a stopping point for Henry David Thoreau ’s travels . By the 1960s , some of its glory had fade and city planners act out a policy of Urban Renewal . It was dread , and we lost a gross ton of historical buildings , include Union Station , a noted gear station with a prominent clock column . Residents of the city still rue this period to this mean solar day . ” [ mchabe ; Image : WikipediaandRenaissance Restorations ]
The Barcelona Pavilion, 1929-1930
[ CleverUsername ; look-alike : Jimon Flickr ]
The Masonic Temple Building, 1892-1939
“ build in 1892 by Burnham and Root , this 22 - story “ skyscraper ” was long the tallest construction in the city . ” [ Werunbushwick ; image : WikipediaandAppstate ]
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