Utah Territorial Insane Asylum, Provo, Utah. Main building completed in 1885, additional wings added by the time this 1896 photo was taken. Razed in 1981.

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Dayton's first Post Office, Ohio. (1892-1911)

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Atlantic City was a whole different city back in the day.

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Union Station, Worcester, Massachusetts (1875 - 1911; tower demolished 1959)

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City Market, Kansas City, MO, 1906

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Daguerreotype photo of the ancient Native American mound known as Big Mound in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1854. It was built by the Mississippian culture between 1000-1400 AD and its last remnants were leveled by a railroad company in 1869.

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Malcom X College in Chicago, IL by Gene Summers in 1971. Heavily influenced by Mies Van Der Rohe, Demolished in 2016.

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Babocsay Villa, Budapest, Hungary, designed by Aladar Arkay in 1906. The owner was not happy with its unusual regional art nouveau style; in 1932 he hired another architect to remodel it in a more modern fashion.

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The neo baroque hall in innsbruck is getting a modern 'facelift'

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Here are some more houses from Detroit which are all gone today. These houses, which all lined Woodward Ave, were torn down as the city grew with the explosion of the automobile industry in the first half of the 20th century.

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My home was built around 1866. A fire destroyed the upper portion in 1922. Luckily, the lower level was salvaged.

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Czaczkiego street buildings in Warsaw in 1939 before WW2

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Ehrentempel: Erected in 1935 Munich as a tomb for Nazis who died during the Beer Hall Putsch. Today only the base remains as it has become a rare biotope for vegetation.

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Fernheizwerk (Power Station), Dresden, Germany, built 1899-1900 according to the plans of the architects Lossow and Viehweger. The tower, which many considered unsightly and unnecessary, was demolished around 1935, the rest was destroyed in 1945

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The 1939 New York World's Fair celebrated the 150th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration, commemorating him with a giant statue made of plaster and wood by sculptor James Earle Fraser - it was demolished after the fair closed.

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Singer building, New York city

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Townsend St and Humboldt Ave, Boston, MA in 1962 shortly before the destruction of the neighborhood.

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Raffles place, Singapore. Above is before the colonial architecture were demolished for modern skyscrapers.

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Post Office, Essen, Germany, Built in 1904 only to be demolished and replaced with a larger structure only 28 years later.

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Bradbury Mansion: Built in 1886 in the old Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles. Later became a guest house for silent film stars, before falling to disrepair and being torn down in 1929.

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Main house at Uncle Sam Plantation, St. James Parish, Louisiana. Built 1829–1843, Demolished 1940 (photo:Walker Evans)

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Aransas County Courthouse. Rockport, TX. Built 1889, demolished 1956

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2nd nov. 1931. Inauguration of the new dorms in the Faculty of Agronomy Campus, Bucharest, Romania. Arch: Florin Stanculescu & Radu Udroiu. Fun fact: at the gf there was a casino. It was demolished in the 50s by the communists. Photo from my personal collection.

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U.S. Post Office in Mobile, AL. Built in 1914. Beaux-Arts style with Italian Renaissance influences. Razed in 1968.

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Times Square (1919) Before all the renovations and billboards.

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Elgin Botanic Garden, New York. The first public Botanical Garden of the United States. Greenhouse built before 1802, abandoned or demolished before 1850. Now the site of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.

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Baltimore’s Hotel Rennert, torn down in the 1940s, stood at the corner of Saratoga and Liberty Streets.

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St. Louis World's Fair

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Rotterdam before WW2.

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Ford Rotunda

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Town Hall, Falmouth, Massachusetts: Built 1880, designed by Samuel Dudley Kelley, demolished 1965.

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Prudential building.1918 Newark nj

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Ritchie School in Edmonton, Alberta. Opened in 1913, it was built on a slough that caused the basement to flood in its first year. Slowly sinking, the original wing was sealed off in the 70s from the newer parts of the school and was finally demolished earlier this year

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The before and after of the Belgrade post office. A full restoration of the facade as part of the reconstruction of the Sava square upon which the building stands has just been announced.

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The Great Saltair, a swimming venue in the Great Salt Lake before it burned down.

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RMS Titanic’s Reading & Writing Room (1911)

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The Montreal ice palace c.1920

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Masonic Temple in Aurora, Illinois (1924). Destroyed in a fire last night

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Coulter Department Store, Los Angeles, designed by Stiles Clements, 1938. The building was nominated for listing in the National Register of Historic Places but was demolished in 1980 before the nomination could be heard.

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Church of the Archangel Michael, Warsaw: Finished in 1894 as an Orthodox church for occupying Russian soldiers. It was torn down following Polish independence in 1923.

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The Lumina Pavilion, Wrightsville Beach, NC. Opened in June of 1905, and demolished in the 1970’s. Known as the “Palace of Light” and the “Pleasure Place of the South.” Even featured a movie screen jutting out from the ocean.

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Costessey Hall, Norfolk, England - Demolished 1925

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Nestle Pavilion for Paris Traveling Fair in 1928, by Le Corbusier.

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Constructed as an apartment building in the early 1880s next to Stockholm’s Central Station, it was altered over the years and at some point stripped of all facade decorations. It was ultimately demolished in 1982 for the completion of Klarabergsviadukten. A hotel was built on the site in 1984.

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Hotel Pelham being moved west for the widening of Tremont St. (1869) Demolished 1916

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Montreal Post Office (1876-1959)

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The Morris A. Mechanic Theater located in the heart of Downtown Baltimore, MD. Loved and hated by many for it's Brutalist Architecture was built in 1967 and demolished in 2014. The lot remains empty to this day.

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Nocton Hall, Lincolnshire. Founded in 1530; gutted by fire in 2004.

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75-room mansion residence of Charles M. Schwab, Riverside Drive & W 73rd Street, Manhattan NYC

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Morris Hotel (originally the Morris Block) in Birmingham, AL. Office building and 125-room luxury hotel. Opened in 1891. Demolished in 1958 for a three level parking garage.

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Eastminster, London demolished some time after 1538

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I'd dont know if this counts as architecture, but here is one of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

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Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, GA. Built in 1881 and demolished in 1911. The present courthouse was erected on the same site.

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Larkin Administration Building, Buffalo, New York / Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built 1904-1906, razed 1950.

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Reading Abbey, UK. Built 1121, destroyed in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Once one of the largest monasteries in Europe. Only surviving building is the gatehouse on the right

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Taunton State Hospital, Massachusetts. Now an empty field. 1854 - 2009

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Budapest in the aftermath of WW2 with the collapsed Chain Bridge and heavily damaged Buda Castle in the back. Much of it was thankfully rebuilt, but the city today only possesses a fraction of the beauty it once held.

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Macys 1906

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Idealized reconstruction of the Acropolis and Areios Pagos in Athens, Greece. Leo von Klenze, 1846.

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A street in Izmir, Turkey, before it was destroyed in 1922

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Osage, Iowa - Mitchell County Courthouse - Built 1858, demolished 2014

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Interior of the Oregon Forestry Building, Portland. Built in 1905 for the Lewis & Clark Exposition, burned down in 1964.

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i loved those houses

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The Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Kaunas, Lithuania. Built in 1925-1932 as the first faculty of a future university campus, it was famously blown up by the hastily retreating Nazis in 1944

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Train Station Hamburg Altona demolished in 1979 and replaced by modern building

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The Tonhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, built in 1895 and razed in the 1930s.

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Ministry of Finance Building. Budapest, Hungary. Destroyed in WW2. Thankfully the complete reconstruction of the building is currently taking place

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Delaware County Courthouse, Muncie, Indiana. (1887-1965)

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Wisconsin Avenue Reservoir, Georgetown (Washington, DC) razed in 1932.

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Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., 1901

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Rooftop garden - (the second) Hotel Vancouver (1916 photo by WJ Moore)

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Moore House in Palos Verdes Estates, California by Frank Lloyd Wright. Built in 1959, Demolished in 2021 for Mediterranean-style house

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West Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Built in 1884 and demolished in 1940 after a period of decline.

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The Life Association Building, 1855 (centre) and the New Club, 1837 (left), Edinburgh, Scotland. Both swept away in the 1960s and replaced with brutalism.

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Vienna - before/after (built in 2020)

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The Notre dame cathedral, currently on fire as of this moment, a couple of towers attached to it already collapsed.

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Chicago Federal Building lost 1965

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First Christian Church, Oklahoma City. Demolished September 26, 2022

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Sturdza Palace (Foreign Ministry Palace). Completed in 1901, demolished in 1947. Bucharest, Romania.

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We did it!! 50,000 members!!

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Federal Coffee Palace in Melbourne, Australia. Built in 1888 at the height of Melbourne's Boom era, and controversially demolished in 1973. It has since gained posthumous fame as the building Melburnians most regret having lost.

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Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, England, built in 1443, expanded in 1500, demolished in 1660 to make way for a new palace which never materialized. It was the birthplace of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

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Queen Hotel, Lothrop Street, Beverly, Massachusetts / opened in 1889, burned to the ground 1891.

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This is Paris not Asia. Paris World Fair 1900's

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Great Synagogue of Warsaw - the largest synagogue in the world when built in 1870s it was demolished by the Nazis in 1943 as the final act of suppression of the Jewish uprising and of the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Hotel Rennert, Baltimore, MD. The palace of the south, known for it's fine dining. Fell on hard times in the 30's, before being torn down and replaced with a parking garage. (1885-1941)

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Junction of Main and Delaware St, Kansas City, MO 1906 and today. Mostly demolished for highway construction.

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The Baltimore American News building, Baltimore, MD. Sat across street from rival newspaper The Sun Iron Building. Burnt down in the Great Baltimore Fire. (1875-1904)

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The Cheshire Cheese, 150yo pub suffered a similar firey fate as the Crooked House after developers were denied planning permission, finally demolished late 2022

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The Great Synagogue of Nuremberg, built in 1874, torn down by the Nazis in 1938

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Lutheran Church of St. Maria, St. Petersburg, Russia, built by architects V.A. Schroter and I.S. Kitner in 1872-1874. It was demolished for firewood during the siege of the city in WW2.

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Kangseonru in Seongcheon, North Korea. Built in 1343, it was used as a government office and guesthouse for foreign officials. Lost during the Korean War.

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Palace of the Republic: Built in 1976 Berlin, as the GDR's parliament building, it also held a wide array of services from a discotheque to restaurants. It was demolished after reunification due to asbestos. Today the rebuilt Berlin Palace sits in its place.

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H.D. Woodson High School, Washington, DC (1972-2011)

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OTI Szekhaz, the first skyscraper in Budapest. Due to safety regulations, the top was demolished in 1969.

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A functioning Dutch windmill from 1848 burned down yesterday.

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Juras Perle Restaurant, Jurmala, Latvia, designed by J. Goldenberg in 1964. The daring cantilevered structure, which was inspired by a ship's hull, burned down in 1991.

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Apollo-theater, Dusseldorf, Germany, designed by architect Herrman von Endt in 1899, destroyed in the Second World War

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Thoreau House, Boston, demolished in 1896.

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I wish Central Los Angeles still looked like it did in 1905.

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Old School of Wismar, Northern Germany - continuously used as a town school for almost 600 years until its destruction after a bombing raid on April 15, 1945.

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A quiet section of LA, at the mouth of the Broadway Tunnel. The entire district was demolished in 1949 to make way for the 101 Freeway. (c. 1905)

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The Bond store building was designed by Walker and Weeks, and located at 815 Euclid Avenue, the northwest corner of East 9th street and Euclid. The store was built in 1946 and demolished in 19782

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Sam Light Loans (St. Louis)

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Fonthill Abbey, UK, showing the third and tallest of its three towers. Like its two predecessors it collapsed within ten years.

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The Antlers Hotel in CO Springs. Demolished in 1964 and replaced with a modern building.

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Belgium, Ostend 1800 - 2020

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The Grand Central Hotel (1870-1973), later renamed the Broadway Central Hotel, was a hotel at 673 Broadway, NYC, that was famous as the site of the murder of financier James Fisk in 1872 by Edward S. Stokes. The hotel collapsed on August 3, 1973, killing four residents and injuring at least twelve.

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Tomorrow, Richmonds Dominion Energy Building (right) will be imploded. It was built in the 1970s and has been a core part of Richmond’s skyline ever since. It’s been replaced by the larger glass tower to its left, and a second, similar building will be built in its place following its demolition.

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Markle Mansion/ Elks Club, razed during the 1920’s. A tire shop now occupies the site. Hazleton, PA.

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The Prussian city of Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad)

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After many years of neglect and abandonment, this house in my hometown was demolished today.

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El Paso, 1940

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Old Panama before 28 January 1671, when Pirate Henry Morgan attacked the city with 1,400 men, Morgan's force defeated the city's militia then proceeded to sack Panama. Morgan and his army started a fire that burned the city. Spanish Architecture.

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National Romanian Post Hq. built in 1937 in Bucharest. Arch: Arghir Culina. Illegally demolished in 2007, never rebuilt. :(

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The No named building (Colorful 40 story building on west street) only mentioned once in a New York Times article “Ghost buildings of 1929”. That’s about it .. no any other trace for pictures and information, therefore leads this No named unbuilt building Lost.

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Broadway and Chestnut in 1900 vs today (St. Louis)

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The difference is clear, the difference is depressing. London, England.

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This beautiful curved hallway, Demolished

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Fresno County Courthouse — Then vs Now

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Third Church of Christ, Scientist. Torn down in 2014 for office buildings

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Old Chicago- billed as “The world’s first indoor amusement park” 1975-1986.

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The first Madison Square Garden, Manhattan NYC circa 1879-1890

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The first stock exchange by architect Hendrick de Keyser opened its doors in Amsterdam in 1611 on an enormous arch over the canal 'Rokin'. Not long after the first company share was invented by the Dutch East India company. Demolished 1884.

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Times Square, New York over over the years

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Hotel Seattle, built 1890 demolished 1961 for a parking garage

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The Arch of the Philaeni, Between Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, Libya, designed by Italian architect Florestano Di Fausto, unveiled in 1937. Destroyed in 1973.

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original Pennsylvania Station Main Facade in 1962

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Renaissance Hotel at Seoul, South Korea. Built in 1988, one of the last projects by influential Architect Kim Swoo-Geun. Demolished in 2019 for a newer hotel.

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Ocean Beach, San Francisco 1902 to 2019

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Church of St Thomas, Marlborough Street Dublin, built 1758 destroyed 1922 during battle of Dublin

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Hotel De Afrique, Hatteras Island, Outer Banks, NC. (1861~1870’s)

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Kedainiai palace, Lithuania. Destroyed by retreating Germans. WW2.

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Beacon Towers, Sands Point, New York (1922)

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Bancroft Building in New York City, NY. Built in 1896, demolished in 2015 for a yet to be built generic glass skyscraper.

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Marion, Virginia - J.B. Rhea Building - Constructed 1905, Demolished Summer 2022

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Fate of the majestic Cossitt Library, Memphis.

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The Old Sun Building, Baltimore, MD. One of the most beautiful buildings in the city, later replaced with one of the ugliest. (1906-1964)

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The fate of the Erie County Savings Bank, one of the most beloved buildings ever built in Buffalo, NY.

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Butler House — Austin, TX

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Iglesia San Francisco (1933), an historical church in Ancud, Chile, it burned down today at morning (01/22/20)

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Bielsko Synagogue, Poland, 1881, designed by Karol Korn. The synagogue was completely destroyed by Nazis on 13 September 1939.

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The Whitridge, or Winslow, House, Rochester, Massachusetts. Built in 1695; taken down in 1906 / saltbox colonial.

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Naubat Khana, red fort, Delhi. Destroyed by the British

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Entrance to Creation from the 1904 World's Fair. A nice example of disposable architecture designed for a one-time event. The photo shows great detail when enlarged.

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Tower Hill, Illinois - Masonic Lodge - Built sometime after 1914 (maybe around 1920?), demolished after 2016.

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