After taking 6 months off from building, I finally completed the grand arch in my city.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Minecraft
Instead of Madison Square Garden, Penn Station was almost partially demolished for a parking lot in 1960. As this rendering shows, its Waiting Room and Grand Concourse would have been spared.4yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Penn Station's Main Waiting Room, ca. 1910. The only recognizable feature remaining is the staircase at the center.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Boston's West End neighborhood, leveled entirely in the 1950s as part of an Urban Renewal project. Nearly 900 buildings were demolished and thousands of families displaced to construct a luxury housing complex.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Union Station, Columbus, OH. Built 1897. Demolished in 1979 due to declining rail travel and the popularity of automobile transport.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Palace of Manufactures, St. Louis World's Fair, 1904. Constructed for $720,000 and suffered the same fate as with many temporary fair buildings.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Festival Hall (1904). Demolished right after the fair had ended.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Pulitzer Building in Park Row, New York. 1890-1955. Designed by George B. Post in Renaissance Revival style. It was demolished to build an entrance ramp for cars to the Brooklyn Bridge.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Schocken Department Store, Stuttgart, Germany. Designed by Erich Mendelsohn, 1926. Demolished 1960.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Agricultural Building at the Chicago World's Fair, designed by McKim, Mead and White. Burned 1894.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Brazilian Pavilion, 1904 World's Fair. It was dismantled and rebuilt in 1906 as the Palacio Monroe in Rio de Janeiro. Despite its landmark status, it was demolished under the orders of Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel in March 1976.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Mark Hopkins' mansion on Nob Hill, San Francisco. Built 1878. It burned to the ground in the fires ensuing from the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Terminal Station at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It burned down in a series of fires that destroyed much of the fair grounds in 1894.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Chicago Post Office and Custom House. 1878-1898. It was replaced by the Chicago Federal Building in 1905, which would later be demolished to make way for Mies van der Rohe's Federal Center in 1965.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Metropolitan Building, Minneapolis, MN. Built 1890 as the city's first skyscraper. It was razed in 1961 as part of Urban Renewal, along with 40% of Downtown Minneapolis.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Palace of Electricity, 1900 Exposition Universelle, Paris, France. Designed by architects Eugene Henard and Edmond Paulin.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Chicago City Hall and County Building, built 1885. It suffered from structural defects with its foundation that caused the building to sink, and was later replaced with the current City Hall in 1911.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Betz Building, Philadelphia, PA. Designed by William H. Decker. Constructed in 1892. Demolished in 1926 for the construction of the Art deco tower, One South Broad.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The 'De Bijenkorf' department store in Rotterdam, opened in 1930. It was destroyed by German forces in the bombing of Rotterdam on May 14, 1940.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. 1881-1953. Philadelphia's Penn Center business district now occupies the area.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The 6th Street Bridge, Los Angeles, CA. Art Deco, 1932-2016. The historic viaduct, featured in several Hollywood films and television shows, was demolished over concerns that it would collapse in a major earthquake.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
North Union Station, Boston, MA. 1893-1927. Demolished and replaced by North Station and the Boston Garden.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Equitable Life Building, Manhattan, NY. Built 1870 and destroyed by a fire in 1912.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Hotel Astor in Times Square, New York. Designed by architects Charles W. Clinton and William H. Russell. Opened in 1904 and demolished in 1967 for the construction of 1515 Broadway, a 50 -story office tower.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Hudson Terminal, Lower Manhattan, NY. Built in 1909 to serve the H&M Railroad (today's PATH) and was demolished in 1972 to construct the World Trade Center complex.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Pennsylvania Greyhound Bus Terminal, Art Moderne in style, built in 1935. Designed by Thomas Lamb. Demolished in the mid-1960's after the demolition of NY Penn Station. Photo 1936.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Palacetes Prates (Prates Palaces), Sao Paulo, built 1911. Both were demolished from 1951-1959 to construct a condominium complex.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The APA Building in Melbourne, Australia. 1889-1980. Replaced by a 5-story office building at 49 Elizabeth Street.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Palace of Liberal Arts at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. As a temporary structure, it was also dismantled after the end of the fair.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Mining Exchange Building, Denver, CO. Built 1891 by Kirchner & Kirchner. Demolished 1963 in the name of Urban Renewal.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Train Concourse of Chicago's Union Station, opened in 1925. It was demolished in 1969 to make way for an office tower.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The New York Produce Exchange Building, New York City. Constructed in 1884 to replace an older building from 1861. Razed in 1957 and replaced by the tower, 2 Broadway.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Fox Theater, San Francisco, CA. Built in 1929. Closed and demolished in 1963 due to declining patronage.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Prague-Tesnov Station, Prague, CZ. Built 1875 and closed 1972. Its ruins were dynamited by the Soviets on March 16, 1985.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Temple Building, Toronto, ON. Built 1895 by George W. Gouinlock in Romanesque Revival style. One of the first skyscrapers in the city. Demolished in 1970 to construct the Queen-Bay Centre.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Colonial Mutual Life Building in Melbourne, Australia. Designed by Edward E. Raht and built from 1893-6. Demolished in 1960 due to high maintenance costs and was deemed unworthy of preservation.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Rendering of unbuilt plan to demolish half of Penn Station for a parking lot, 19605yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/nyc
The Women's Temple, Monroe & LaSalle Sts., Chicago, IL. (1892-1926).7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Old Chicago El ticket I bought. NY'er here, so I'm not really sure how old it is. Can anyone date?6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/chicago
Felt happy to get this and wanted to share: IRT ticket from when the subway first opened in 1904.6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/nycrail
The Pabst Building, Milwaukee, WI. (1891-1981). 100 East Wisconsin currently stands on the site.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The old Cliff House, San Francisco, CA. Built 1896 by Adolph Sutro and burned down in 1907.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
I found an old MBTA pass but I'm not sure how old it is. Does anyone know when it was used?6yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/boston
I tried recreating Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in 19736yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Minecraft
Dover Station on Boston's Orange Line EL. Opened 1901 and demolished after the closure and rerouting of the line in 1987.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
The Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy. Constructed from 211-217 AD during the reigns of emperors Septimius Serverus and Caracalla. Abandoned in 530 AD and destroyed in the Earthquake of 847. Its ruins are now open to the public as a tourist attraction.7yr ⋅ WindyWill ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
