© 2014 Michael Fiveson
What must have been a wonderful home now sits abandoned and rotting in the Michigan countryside. It is yet another broken and forgotten piece in the American landscape.
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How sad it is abandoned! Looks like when fixed up how charming a place to live! Hugz Lisa and Bear
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I agree, very sad.
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Bricks house have something particular wgen it comes to style
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Especially old and patched up brick houses.
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A sad ending to what was surely a bright beginning. Your lovely photograph reminds me that my body, too, is a house that will decay in time.
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Your body and mine as well. What are we to do.
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A story can be woven around this. A tale of either woe or happiness depending on the mood. Brooding or uplifting.
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Agree. Probably a little of both, if other families serve as an example.
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This old house may be a yet unfinished tale…
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Meaning it may yet have life back in it?
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Put a For Sale sign up… I bet you’d get some calls.
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I would assume that the last owners did that and a bank or two followed. But hell, I know less all the time, truth be told.
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A storybook place and so very sad to be left alone.
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It must have been something great in its time, eh.
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Very nice one. Looks like turn of the century. I wonder if it could be restored?
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The bricks are all cracked, the roof is gone, and I think it probably was abandoned because of high maintenance costs. Good morning, Marilyn.
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So very evocative, in a way that only abandoned houses can be.
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That is very true, Thanks.
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Wonderful example of fine masonry… it was a fine place in it’s day. Thanks for the excellent photo, there are many tales told in looking close at the repairs and modifications it’s seen.
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Yes, a close look reveals many repairs and some curiosities too. Thanks.
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It’s so beautiful. Hard to believe it’s abandoned and that someone hasn’t come along to fix it up. The roof looks almost like a patchwork quilt.
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The roof behind the tree is missing. All gone. This one is a no hope, I’m afraid.
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I love old houses and it’s so sad to see them abandoned.
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Totally agree Joanne. It feels like a death of sorts, and reminds that time keeps moving, leaving some things behind.
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Very evocative. You certainly seem to come across a lot of abandoned places….
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I am drawn to them. I’m sure it has something to do with my own mortality, but don’t tell anyone 😉
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Well, that must be me and my love of decay, too… Yikes
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Why? How could a house like this end up this way? Surely someone would relish the chance to resurrect it! Great photo, sad story, Sir Michael of the USA!
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You would think so, eh. I suspect that this home, while beautiful and seemingly solid, became in time too expensive to maintain with a variety of foundation and structural issues.
But one thing I do know is how much I don’t know, so I am merely speculating, as a gent is apt to do.
You are up very early, my pretty. I do hope a Kat nap might be in order.
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I am a chronic insomniac even with meds! (part of this damn helath condition). Your insights into the reasons for the house being abandoned make sense to me. It is such a shame when these buildings go to waste when there are so many homeless people in the world!
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I think we should make rich folks with large homes take in a percentage of homeless people, depending on the number of rooms available. That might mean that some families add 1 1/2 homeless people while others take in as many as 12 3/4. That way homeless people don’t have to stay in abandoned homes but can stay in some really nice ones.
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Yes, great idea but some of them would be dismembered to fit your quotas! Could be messy…
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It certainly has some architectural style and charm I would like to have seen it in its heyday.
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How long ago was that, do you figure?
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So sad it’s not used again.It’s not possible to renovate it?
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Too much work, I would guess, Marylou.
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My eyes immediately went to the open or broken window Mike. Like an eye to the history of this sad and lonely home. Beautiful image.
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My eye travels there as well. Thanks Sue.
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What a beautiful home. What a shame. It seems that America loves the new more than the old. Except for photographers and the occasional heritage society.
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All true. You have gone pirate on me, matey.
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Not really. I kept telling Joe how much I liked his hat but that I looked stupid in one. Joerg on Monochromia came up with my new look along with several others that I will rotate from time to time. He has labeled this one as the Bonaparte hat!
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When I saw this image (before I read where you photographed it), I could have sworn it was the house that my mom, brother and I lived in for a short time. That was in Nebraska in 1960. It had been converted to apartments and we lived on the second floor at the top of a long staircase. My brother and I would sneak upstairs to the attic and snoop around up there often because the landlady was forgetful and on more than one occasion left the attic door unlocked. Thanks for bringing back some very cool memories for me, Mike. Great image!
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Well, that’s cool. I’m glad they were good memories.
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Really no heir for this ex-marvelous house? What a pity it ended this way… abandoned. Sadly like many others!
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Apparently any heir has opted out of the expense involved to restore it. I’m not sure it isn’t past its restorable date.
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Poignant image – once a place of dreams.
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Poignant is one of my favorite words. Thank you.
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Interesting roof patterns.
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Looks like they threw shingle on top of wood.
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I can’t even believe this house is abandoned, it’s very special.
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It is special, but it is old and kind of broken up. ‘ello Boomdee.
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Jello Mike. But the windows and brick are so darn nice.
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