See my video below:

 

:'(

Holy crap, I did not know the old Armco offices were demolished. I should show my father that - he's devoted 30+ years of his life to Armco, now part of AK Steel.

What an...uplifting video.

Pathetic.  I only see these teardowns becoming more common as our vast supply of empty buildings continues to deteriorate and grow in numbers.

After a demo occurs, it makes it more likely that others near it will fall as they become seen as more and more "out of context" to casual observers.  Many historic buildings are sole survivors, as their surroundings have been demolished, erasing any point of reference and making them seem somehow out of place, and more of a target for demolition themselves.

  I get soooo angry while driving with someone and they point out how stupid a building seems situated.  They always seem surprised when I tell them that at one time, there was an entire neighborhood surrounding it instead of a four lane road or highway.  It's like they cant imagine the structure predating their more precious road.  grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

One of my favorite jokes:

 

A young, bright-eyed American couple has joined a guided tour of a 1000-year-old castle near Heathrow Airport outside London. At the end of the tour, the guide asks the group if they have any questions.

 

The Americans speak up: "Yes, why did they build the castle near the airport?"

Unlike the excellent video which kicked off this thread, here’s an overly long, rambling, extremely amateurish account of the destruction of my high school last spring (it’s the best I could find), but I thought I’d add it anyway for the record--88 years of history down the drain (I suppose by a long leap of the imagination the shaky camera technique can be called cinéma vérité—lol. Topping it off the young "filmmaker" claims to make documentaries--wtf?). Demolished Harvey High School May 10th

 

Pathetic. I only see these teardowns becoming more common as our vast supply of empty buildings continues to deteriorate and grow in numbers.

After a demo occurs, it makes it more likely that others near it will fall as they become seen as more and more "out of context" to casual observers. Many historic buildings are sole survivors, as their surroundings have been demolished, erasing any point of reference and making them seem somehow out of place, and more of a target for demolition themselves.

I get soooo angry while driving with someone and they point out how stupid a building seems situated. They always seem surprised when I tell them that at one time, there was an entire neighborhood surrounding it instead of a four lane road or highway. It's like they cant imagine the structure predating their more precious road.   grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

 

Very good points. The Potters Bank building in East Liverpool is an excellent example of buildings disappearing one at a time until only one or two isolated buildings remain standing, now very visibly out of their original context. These isolated survivors are then far more prone to come down as well to finally end up with large "demolition greenspaces" in place of a once dense built environment. Amazing to learn how so many of these structures in the video succumbed to fires-made even more remarkable because they were vacant at the time while their stone and brick construction often caused them to be considered "fireproof". This is a sobering catalog of losses that seems to continue year after year. Hardly ever is something new built on the demo site that equals the scale and quality of the historic building that was torn down. Wish we could see many more nicely restored and adaptively re-used historic structures instead. There's nothing "green" or progressive about this senseless waste. The "urban renewal" model has been a failure since the 1950's.

I just cried like a little girl, thanks for posting.

Depressing stuff.

The 1927 Clinton Theater in Clintonville, Columbus.

 

 

^whaaat?!! ooooh no!

Unlike the excellent video which kicked off this thread, heres an overly long, rambling, extremely amateurish account of the destruction of my high school last spring (its the best I could find), but I thought Id add it anyway for the record--88 years of history down the drain (I suppose by a long leap of the imagination the shaky camera technique can be called cinéma véritélol. Topping it off the young "filmmaker" claims to make documentaries--wtf?). Demolished Harvey High School May 10th

 

 

only your hs? i went to a cle school briefly, but all my lorain schools are gone :(

 

Thank you for putting together the video ink.  What's depressing is some of these buildings were destroyed by arson...meaning there's simply no commission, foundation, or awarded status that can keep a building from me destroyed.  I only hope the penalties for arson become more severe since it puts fireman in danger and also destroys our communities.

Very good points. The Potters Bank building in East Liverpool is an excellent example of buildings disappearing one at a time until only one or two isolated buildings remain standing, now very visibly out of their original context.

 

..this is what's happened in Dayton.

 

...back when i was doing all that stuff with the Sanborns and pix and things I kept on grokking on how built-up the city used to be, and how just a few things remain in some locations from entire landscapes of buildings.

 

Even in my own time here I've watch things erode away.  Good examples are the Brown/Warren/Wyoming & Main & Wyoming intersections, which used to be a little business district with some apartments, and is now mostly destroyed for hospital expansion. I think one of the last of these...Jimmys Cornerstone...will be coming down this year sometime.

 

The main buisness corner in Old North Dayton, Valley & Troy Street, has been seeing similar erosion, loss of of two story brick commercial buildings along Valley (one was a used bookstore in 1988), now vacant lots...just gravel and grass.  The big 4 story apartment house/retail thing that "turns the corner" at this intersection is now empty and boarded up...you just know that's going to come down one of these days.

 

At Tals Corner they lost a big stone-front masonic or odd fellows hall..a very impressive building from what remember, to a fire in the early 1990s, and thats all grass lot now, a big hole in that intersection.

 

What's was left of the old "Patterson" or "Browntown" neighborhood (isolated houses and aparments) was demolished in the past two years (inlcuding the Reynolds & Reynolds factory) to build some bunker-esque vocational school.

 

A lot of old loft factory buildings came down since 1988, including most of the old Stoddard-Dayton complex (later Maxwell Auto) near Webster Station and a big loft on Cincinnati Street near St Elizabeths, and the old NIBCO foundary, McCalls Printing, the early Figidaire plant at Tech Town, Platt Foundry, and, and, and...etc etc etc

 

And the beat goes on....

 

 

Clark County Memorial hall (love that shot) will be replaced with a skating rink. The facade has been saved but there are no serious plans for re-erecting it anywhere.

Unlike the excellent video which kicked off this thread, here’s an overly long, rambling, extremely amateurish account of the destruction of my high school last spring (it’s the best I could find), but I thought I’d add it anyway for the record--88 years of history down the drain (I suppose by a long leap of the imagination the shaky camera technique can be called cinéma vérité—lol. Topping it off the young "filmmaker" claims to make documentaries--wtf?). Demolished Harvey High School May 10th

 

 

only your hs? i went to a cle school briefly, but all my lorain schools are gone :(

 

no, my elementary school (below), dating from 1930, and my junior high school (which wasn't even that old--built in the early 60's) were also demolished (as were three other schools in Painesville)...

Clark County Memorial hall (love that shot) will be replaced with a skating rink. The facade has been saved but there are no serious plans for re-erecting it anywhere.

Sounds like parts will likely end up on the new ice rink per this article from January 19:

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/ice-arena-plans-incorporate-memorial-hall-facade-1058896.html

Of the four schools I went to in Dayton, all have met the wrecking ball. That would be three grade schools; Washington, Ruskin and Orville Wright, and my high school, Wilbur Wright.

It was while searching online for pictures of WW last week that I found that WW and OW were both erased last year. Came as quite a shock to me.