I have always been drawn to crumbling grandeur - the cracks in the veneer that betray a history and an imperfection. Give me flaking lacquer over fresh paint any day. For my fellow travelers who also enjoy this aesthetic, here is a treat.
Admirals' Row in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
This stretch of ten residential houses was built for high-ranking Navy officers and their families between 1864 and 1901. Decommissioned by the Navy in 1966 and fully abandoned by the late 1970s, the structures have been slowly but surely rotting away.
Click here to read more about the site's history.
Click here, here and here to see more photographs full of romance and atmosphere.
9 comments:
Hmm...my first thought was, What Would Gil Schafer Do?
beautiful blog.!!
^^
greetings from Chile.!
=)
Js.
Fabulous! Entropy...you have to love it.
Really beautiful, such potential, such history.
Mr. Worthington - you read my mind!
It's strange...building to me are almost alive. It hurts my heart when i see them in such disrepair.
I LOVE this post!! I understand the attraction to the crumbling, peeling and decay. If someone let me, I would live in it. I might sweep a bit.
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Wow... when i was in the salvage business, we took apart the DC Naval Yards, including the officer's club. We got the most amazing things, and I still have a HUGE "silver" punch bowl.
P-D - you ran a salvage business?! the treasures you must have! And I can't believe you mentioned a punch bowl - it's one of my current obsessions.... EEE
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