December 6, 2013

Nobles Theater

This One Hundred & Seven year old Theater building is a historic landmark, which was once a primary public performance venue. 

That’s all the History I can find on this location now. When I find more I’ll be sure to post it.

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November 29, 2013

AbandonedNY Featured on Weather.com

Haunting Images of Abandoned Resort


Urban explorer and photographer John Walker captured what remains of an old resort that was a summer-haven for garment workers in the early 1900s in his photo series called “The White Pines.”
Walker went to the resort, located on 750 acres of land at the base of the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, after a fellow urban explorer disclosed the location. In order to keep it protected, Walker doesn’t use the resort’s real name. He instead refers to it as “The White Pines.”

The resort was purchased by the Garment Workers’ Union in 1919 as a reasonably priced place for its members to vacation. In 1924, the property was sold to the General Executive Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. The union renovated the building and transformed it into a wonderland for the workers, according to Walker.

The resort featured a lake with plenty or watersports, a theater, a library and an abundance of activities to keep guests entertained. Now, the front desk, bar and theater at the resort all lie crumbling and derelict.
Walker’s favorite part of the abandoned resort is the theater. “The theater and main building interested me the most,” he explained to Weather.com. “Just seeing what time and Mother Nature has does to the location since it closed always makes it exciting to see and capture with a camera.”
The photographer, who is based out of New York, says he finds old hotels incredibly "interesting” and has photographed many abandoned summer resorts in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.
When Walker is shooting at an abandoned location, he prefers a little cloud cover to set the scene.
“Cloudy or overcast days I think make outside pictures more interesting to look at … gives them a moody feeling,” said Walker.
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September 2, 2013

Forgotten World Issue #2


I was contacted back in July about a new magazine coming out on Urban Exploring called Forgotten World and they wanted to feature me as the Artist of the month in the second issue. So I agreed and sent them some pictures. My Photo of Ravenloft Castle made the cover and there is a 10 page spread featuring my work from several locations in New York, Pennsylvania & Connecticut. If you like to pick up a copy of this issue you can by clicking this link below, http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/608546

August 24, 2013

Letchworth Village


Construction began in 1911 but completion of the original design did not occur until the early 1930s. The institution was planned as a farm colony where by patients were put to work raising animals and growing food. Superintendent Charles S. Little told the New York Times, In order to make this plan a success, it is necessary to begin to train the feeble minded when they are children. The feeble minded, if taken at an early age can be trained to do things better than if the education of which they are capable is postponed until the less pliable years. The site was named for William Pryor Letchworth, who served on the New York State Board of Charities from 1873 to 1896. Letchworth Village was one of the largest and most progressive facilities for the mentally retarded in the United States. Situated on 2000 acres of farmland with the Towns of Haverstraw and Stony Point. It was designed as a self-supporting community comprised of 130 field stone buildings.
The facility closed on March 31, 1996, but administrative offices remained open until 2002. The campus sprawls across the boundaries of 2 towns.  Some of the buildings located within one of the towns have been adaptively-reused, while much of the other section is neglected.

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July 6, 2013

Old St. Nick


Old St. Nick Coal Breaker
The Old St. Nicholas Breaker, located in PA. It was constructed in 1930 and began operating in 1932. Half of the village of Suffolk was relocated in order to create room for Reading Anthracite's Old St. Nicholas Breaker, the largest coal breaker in the world. 20 miles of railroad track were laid, 3,800 tons of steel and more than 10,000 cubic yards of concrete were used. A mile and a half of conveyor lines, 25 miles of conduit, 26,241 square feet of rubber belting, 118 miles of wire and cable and 20 miles of pipe were installed. When the breaker was constructed it was divided into two sides. Each side could be operated independently, producing 12,500 tons of coal a day. Once the raw coal enters the production process within the breaker it took just 12 minutes to pass through the entire breaker. For 31 years, the Old St. Nicholas Breaker prepared all sizes of famous Reading Anthracite for the markets of the world.

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