# Deserted Buildings – Romantic Yet Sad

- Link: https://www.oldhouseguy.com/deserted-buildings/
- Published: 2014-06-17T16:46:00-04:00
- Author: Daniel Lane

![deserted buildings are grave markers.](https://www.oldhouseguy.com/blog/wp-content/
uploads/2013/04/detroit-ruins.jpg "Deserted buildings are grave markers reminding
us of their past life.")

Deserted buildings are grave markers reminding us of their past life.

Deserted buildings always have some mystery to them. Detroit has some beautiful 
buildings that are now in ruin.

As grave markers, these wonderful old buildings hang on to show us their age old
beauty, as they slowly erode to their death.

As empty as these buildings are now, these great photographs capture the sounds 
and voices that still echo through their halls.

[Visit – The Ruins of Detroit ](http://all-that-is-interesting.com/abandoned-detroit-photos)

**The people are gone, but the buildings still have something to say.**

Now while the buildings in the link above have a romanticism to them, the homes 
below are just sad.  Author Karen Karmon captured images through Google Street View.
Streets and homes were compared showing street views from 2008 and from 2013.  It’s
shocking and sad to see how neighborhoods can just fade away.  It reminds me of 
a movie when civilization dies out with remains left only for future archaeologists
to discover.

Original article has been deleted. Unable to give credit to the photographer.

 

[⌊deserted houses⌉⌊deserted houses⌉[

[⌊abandoned neighborhood⌉⌊abandoned neighborhood⌉[

[⌊abandoned neighborhood⌉⌊abandoned neighborhood⌉[

[⌊lonely streets⌉⌊lonely streets⌉[

[⌊abandoned houses⌉⌊abandoned houses⌉[

[⌊deserted houses⌉⌊deserted houses⌉[

[⌊deserted nieghborhood⌉⌊deserted nieghborhood⌉[

[⌊deserted houses⌉⌊deserted houses⌉[

[⌊deserted house and empty lots⌉⌊deserted house and empty lots⌉[

[⌊abandoned house⌉⌊abandoned house⌉[

[⌊empty lot after demolition⌉⌊empty lot after demolition⌉[

 

## Hope for These Abandoned Treasures

All this seems very dismal but there is still hope for these abandoned treasures.
Preservation and rehabilitation of commercial and residential structures can change
the dynamic one building at a time.  Residents are demonstrating that just because
a building is vacant, doesn’t mean it’s blighted.  Watch the video and see.

 

[Vacant Not Blighted: Revitalizing Detroit ](http://vimeo.com/96926735) from [MHPN ](http://vimeo.com/user28622989)
on [Vimeo ](https://vimeo.com).