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Loeb-Hilburn House – Abandoned House
Marcus Loeb was born on December 27, 1852, in Kirrweiler, Germany. His father, Lazarus, was a farmer and specialized in…
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The Placid Place – Abandoned Southeast
In 1910, the Birmingham Realty Company began the development of the Norwood neighborhood. It is named for Sidney Norwood, a…
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Ezekiel New Congregational Methodist Church – Abandoned House
The Ezekiel New Congregational Methodist Church was constructed by Reverend Manning A. Thigpen, who was a member of one of…
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Maloof Residence – Abandoned House
Aziz Daher Maloof was born in Lebanon in 1892 and immigrated to the United States at 19. After coming to…
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Charred Mansion – Abandoned House
The city of Waycross was created in 1872 and incorporated in March 1874 by an act of the Georgia General…
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Greenwood – Abandoned House
Sydenham Denham Moore was born on May 25, 1817, in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The Moore family moved to Limestone County,…
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Captain John L. Day House – Abandoned House
Captain John Loquier Day was born in New York City on April 22, 1838. His parents, Henry G. and Mary…
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Morgan-Curtis House – Abandoned House
Dr. David Elias Morgan was born on August 1, 1864, in Monmouthshire, Wales. As a young man, Morgan traveled to…
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The Phone Home – Abandoned House
David and Nancy Swearingen met and married in central Florida. In 1980, three years after their marriage, they moved to…
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Fritz Woehle House – Abandoned Southeast
Fritz Woehle was born in 1929 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and relocated to Del Ray Beach, Florida at the age of…
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Park Street United Methodist Church – Abandoned Southeast
About two miles south of downtown Atlanta is the historic neighborhood of West End, a community that predates the city…
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Ashes Funeral Home – Abandoned House
In 2019, agents from the Department of Revenue arrested the owner of this funeral home on charges of tax evasion…
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Senator Ellis House – Abandoned House
Located in the small town of Adamsville, Alabama, this Colonial-style home sits back off the road on a hill, and…
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Mississippi Industrial College – Abandoned House
The Mississippi Industrial College was founded in 1905 by Bishop Elias Cottrell, of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. In the…
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Hawthorne Heights – Abandoned House
The first known settlers came to Union Point, Georgia in the early 1800s. The area was originally called Thornton’s Crossroads…
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Rainer-Lewis House – Abandoned House
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Union Springs, Alabama flourished. Two major railroads intersected in the small town, making…
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Kellogg Mansion – Abandoned House
Beginning in 1925, the five-bedroom, six-bathroom house now known as the Kellogg Mansion was built over several years as the…
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Old First Baptist Church – Abandoned house
The Baptist Praying Society was established in Augusta, Georgia in 1817. There were 18 men and women gathered for the…
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Lynnewood Hall – Abandoned House
Lynnewood Hall is a spectacular Neoclassical Revival masterpiece and is considered one of the greatest surviving Gilded Age mansions in…
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Jones House – Abandoned House
This historic Neoclassical house, referred to as the Jones House, was built circa 1890 for Rebecca Frances Erwin Jones, the…
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Doctor’s House – Abandoned House
Located deep within Virginia’s remote Northern Neck peninsula, this grand Colonial farmhouse was once the home of the town doctor.…
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Cotton Plantation – Abandoned House
A historic home has its best chance for preservation when the owners appreciate the quality of materials, the craftsmanship, and…
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Town of Spectre – Abandoned House
Built in 2003 as a set for the movie Big Fish, the fictional town of Spectre is nestled on the…
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Memory Lane – Abandoned House
According to locals, this old home in rural Georgia may have been used as a boarding school in its early…
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House of the Dead – Abandoned House
Traveling across the Southeast, you might notice that in many small towns, the most magnificent properties are funeral homes. This…
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Hodgson House – Abandoned House
A vintage photo of the Hodgson house In the early 1900s, Dr. Frederick Grady Hodgson purchased land in the Piedmont…
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Hope Haven – Abandoned House
Hope Haven was first envisioned by Father Peter Wynhoven, a transplant from Holland to the Archdiocese of New Orleans. In…
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Moulthrop House – Abandoned House
Situated atop a high bluff overlooking Lake Eufaula are the ruins of the Moulthrop family home and the Shorter Cemetery.…
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Sadler House – Abandoned House
The Sadler House is one of eight historic homes in Tuskegee, Alabama that were added to the National Register of…
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Arlington – Abandoned House
Arlington is a historic Federal-style house located in Natchez, Mississippi. According to tradition, Arlington was built by John Hampton White,…
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Carrollton Courthouse – Abandoned House
Carrollton, Louisiana was incorporated as a city on March 10, 1845. In 1852, the neighboring town of Lafayette, formerly the…
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Temple Mishkan Israel – Abandoned House
Temple Mishkan Israel is a two-story Romanesque Revival building with two symmetrical towers and a raised octagonal roofed sanctuary…
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The Craftsman Mansion – Abandoned House
In October 1901, Gustav Stickley launched his influential magazine The Craftsman. It focused entirely on the construction and interior design…
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Jemison Center – Abandoned House
The Jemison family settled near Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the 1830s and became one of the wealthiest and most influential families…
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Ghost Town in the Sky – Abandoned House
Ghost Town in the Sky in Maggie Valley, North Carolina was the vision of businessman R.B. Coburn, a Virginia native…
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Harrison-Lark-Alley-Jones House – Abandoned Southeast
Dating back to the 1800s, central Terrell County, Georgia was comprised of workers from the local timber mill who owned…
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Lafon Home for Boys – Abandoned Southeast
In 1842, the congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family was officially established in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1847,…
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James Mellon House – Abandoned Southeast
By the early 1800s, the Mellon family was regarded as one of the richest dynasties in the United States. Born…
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Outlaw House – Abandoned House
The Outlaw House in rural Mobile County dates back to 1914. At one time, the house was considered one of…
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Governor’s House Hotel – Abandoned House
Built in 1965, the Governor’s House Hotel was once a premier landmark in Alabama’s capital city of Montgomery. The hotel…
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