WOW,SHREVE, these are dramatic, stunning, architectural. Love the back and forth between b/w and sepia. Great shot with the sun (?) coming in the window. Seems as if you could hear many stories in these walls and floors.
These are thoughtful, contemplative, and evocative images…no words are really necessary.
However, I am reminded of David Francey’s “Torn Screen Door”:
Came across an old farmhouse
Standing broken and bare
It used to be someone’s home
Now no one lives there.
There’s a red barn standing
Held together with nails and dust
And a tired old Massey Harris
All wires and rust
Weeds overgrown in a garden
sown with care
It used to be someone’s home
Now no one lives there
…
They worked their fingers
To the bone
Nothing left
They can call their own
Packed it in under leaden skies
With just the wheat
Waving them goodbye
PATR July 1st, 2013 @ 11:54 am
As we see those on our road trips – we call them “BWPO” (black & white photo opporutnity) or “Some Assembly Required” or “Unique Fixer Upper Oppoturnity” (UFUO)
Great photos….
bonnie July 1st, 2013 @ 11:56 am
wow. sad to see something that was put together with such love and care abandoned. hard.
Oh Wow, Those are great shots, and what a cool place as well. I love love love that corner cabinet, its a shame to see it sit there and rot away.
I love abandoned homes. Many’s the time I have run across one, and explored around a little looking for clues as to the story it had to tell. Were there children there? Did people die there? Did the family have a happy life or racked with sorrow? Did they grow their own food, or did they go to jobs and earn money to buy food with. Ranchers or Farmers, and what made them move away? Whose Grandmother lived here, and do her grandchildren remember this home? Do they, now in their own old age, long for summer days at Granny’s house which is now a mere skeleton of its former self? How many babies were born in those bedrooms, how many children took their first steps? Did a young woman experience her first kiss in that parlor, or perhaps on the porch swing out front, which no longer swings.
Have you ever sat in an abandoned home and listened for the voices on the wind of those who made that house their home? Sometimes if you sit in a room and close your eyes, you can almost see them, laughing and smiling, happy to be alive.
I love abandoned homes, they make me happy and sad all at the same time.
bumblebee July 1st, 2013 @ 4:58 pm
LOVE these photos!!!! I also LOVE that corner cabinet.
It is happy and sad at the same time. I wonder about this home’s story and family members. I would love reading about it! Looking at the photos makes me want to go there and fix it right up and move in! :) Lovely little house!! Thanks for sharing Shreve!!!! <3
mlaiuppa July 1st, 2013 @ 8:15 pm
I would buy that place in a heartbeat.
If I had the money.
Some see abandonment or decay.
I see potential.
Given enough time and money (and labor) that place could be a warm and loving home again.
Sometimes I think that’s all houses want. To be embraced, fixed and allowed to shelter a family again.
I love old houses. They have so much more character.
Colleen G July 1st, 2013 @ 9:06 pm
Your ability to capture light is exquisite. I hope the property is close to you and that you and Mike can work your magic!
carmel July 1st, 2013 @ 9:08 pm
This looks familiar. Did you and charlie live here?
Marg July 2nd, 2013 @ 8:02 am
You work like a time machine for my mind sometimes and today I was sent back to my childhood. We were poor so our family entertainment was heading out to the countryside with a picnic lunch to one of these forgotten farm buildings that my father was an expert at finding. I can still smell the musty wood, see the dust motes and feel the excitement of what I might find in the next room. Thanks, and your pictures are superb.
Y ~ house/residential
M ~ I don’t know! It’s not for sale, but it seems to be left for dead, and I got the owner’s name from the county records ’cause I was really considering going for it…
annbb July 4th, 2013 @ 9:20 am
You’ve captured the soul of a glorious old home. I would love to be able to bring her back to her old beauty.
I love the way you captured the light in these photos.
Jenny C July 7th, 2013 @ 8:00 am
So interesting – thanks for posting these beautiful, poignant shots, Shreve. Someone loved this home. Those intricate rafters in shot #7 indicate a great deal of thought (and genius?) went into its construction, don’t you think? Love the juxtaposition of old lath construction and palm tree wallpaper… in northern Wyoming.
Pat H July 8th, 2013 @ 8:49 am
Hmm, so many magical images that need a home for non-internetters, perhaps a photo Gallery or an area historical photo book or turn it into a farmhouse B&B Photo escape if the owners give up the house.
A local woman and historian/photographer put her pics of abandoned homestead cabins into a book and autotour and researched the original owners. Something that captures the imagination seeing light penetrating through an abandoned structure that was once a home. http://www.jackrabbithomestead.com/primer.html
Friends are turning old homesteader cabins into steady income leaving the outside with the original 1955 paint but simply renovating the inside giving city folks a taste of the rural desert (with more personality than the motels along the road). https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/39492
penny in co July 8th, 2013 @ 5:55 pm
Looks like it was once a beautiful place….many fine angles and touches…
Adrienne July 8th, 2013 @ 7:07 pm
Living in the city, abandoned houses are unheard of. I saw one in Nebraska on a trip there and now this one. I think they are the absolutely saddest this I have ever seen.
These images are haunting.
On a purely practical level, you can tell you live in a drier climate than here in Minnesota. All that would have been warped and rotted away in our climate!
July 1st, 2013 @ 10:57 am
WOW,SHREVE, these are dramatic, stunning, architectural. Love the back and forth between b/w and sepia. Great shot with the sun (?) coming in the window. Seems as if you could hear many stories in these walls and floors.
July 1st, 2013 @ 10:58 am
I’ll be right there! :-)
July 1st, 2013 @ 11:01 am
such beautiful images. you are talented.
July 1st, 2013 @ 11:23 am
These are thoughtful, contemplative, and evocative images…no words are really necessary.
However, I am reminded of David Francey’s “Torn Screen Door”:
Came across an old farmhouse
Standing broken and bare
It used to be someone’s home
Now no one lives there.
There’s a red barn standing
Held together with nails and dust
And a tired old Massey Harris
All wires and rust
Weeds overgrown in a garden
sown with care
It used to be someone’s home
Now no one lives there
…
They worked their fingers
To the bone
Nothing left
They can call their own
Packed it in under leaden skies
With just the wheat
Waving them goodbye
July 1st, 2013 @ 11:54 am
As we see those on our road trips – we call them “BWPO” (black & white photo opporutnity) or “Some Assembly Required” or “Unique Fixer Upper Oppoturnity” (UFUO)
Great photos….
July 1st, 2013 @ 11:56 am
wow. sad to see something that was put together with such love and care abandoned. hard.
July 1st, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
Oh Wow, Those are great shots, and what a cool place as well. I love love love that corner cabinet, its a shame to see it sit there and rot away.
I love abandoned homes. Many’s the time I have run across one, and explored around a little looking for clues as to the story it had to tell. Were there children there? Did people die there? Did the family have a happy life or racked with sorrow? Did they grow their own food, or did they go to jobs and earn money to buy food with. Ranchers or Farmers, and what made them move away? Whose Grandmother lived here, and do her grandchildren remember this home? Do they, now in their own old age, long for summer days at Granny’s house which is now a mere skeleton of its former self? How many babies were born in those bedrooms, how many children took their first steps? Did a young woman experience her first kiss in that parlor, or perhaps on the porch swing out front, which no longer swings.
Have you ever sat in an abandoned home and listened for the voices on the wind of those who made that house their home? Sometimes if you sit in a room and close your eyes, you can almost see them, laughing and smiling, happy to be alive.
I love abandoned homes, they make me happy and sad all at the same time.
July 1st, 2013 @ 4:58 pm
LOVE these photos!!!! I also LOVE that corner cabinet.
It is happy and sad at the same time. I wonder about this home’s story and family members. I would love reading about it! Looking at the photos makes me want to go there and fix it right up and move in! :) Lovely little house!! Thanks for sharing Shreve!!!! <3
July 1st, 2013 @ 8:15 pm
I would buy that place in a heartbeat.
If I had the money.
Some see abandonment or decay.
I see potential.
Given enough time and money (and labor) that place could be a warm and loving home again.
Sometimes I think that’s all houses want. To be embraced, fixed and allowed to shelter a family again.
I love old houses. They have so much more character.
July 1st, 2013 @ 9:06 pm
Your ability to capture light is exquisite. I hope the property is close to you and that you and Mike can work your magic!
July 1st, 2013 @ 9:08 pm
This looks familiar. Did you and charlie live here?
July 2nd, 2013 @ 8:02 am
You work like a time machine for my mind sometimes and today I was sent back to my childhood. We were poor so our family entertainment was heading out to the countryside with a picnic lunch to one of these forgotten farm buildings that my father was an expert at finding. I can still smell the musty wood, see the dust motes and feel the excitement of what I might find in the next room. Thanks, and your pictures are superb.
July 2nd, 2013 @ 11:41 am
I, like the rest, just loved the pictures of the abandoned home. Thank you for thinking of us and sharing your adventure.
July 2nd, 2013 @ 1:53 pm
Of days gone by – lovely.
July 2nd, 2013 @ 1:58 pm
I love old houses/ buildings/ ghost towns. Is this your new soon to be project? The sink, built-in and grate really show the age. Beautiful.
July 2nd, 2013 @ 3:57 pm
Love seeing the spaces where the ghosts still roam.
July 2nd, 2013 @ 7:03 pm
I can just imagine this as an old homestead in the middle of no where WY. My kinda thing
July 2nd, 2013 @ 8:22 pm
Beautiful! I just rented a book from the library called Sagebrush Vernacular that was about abandoned buildings in Nevada.
July 3rd, 2013 @ 9:18 am
Wow, love that sink and the corner cupboard. They don’t make stuff like that anymore. I could happily life there!
July 3rd, 2013 @ 10:28 am
My God, this place just screams POTENTIAL! You have captured it perfectly. I went strait into daydream mode.
July 3rd, 2013 @ 10:33 am
I agree this building seems to have tremendous potential. Such a shame to see it abandoned like this. Could this be your next project Shreve?
July 3rd, 2013 @ 12:16 pm
K (& others) ~ SO TEMPTING, it really is. But it’s in town, I’m out of town… it doesn’t really seem feasible for me. Love it so much, though.
ALTHOUGH….. I MIGHT be able to get my hands on the deed if one of you wants to come out and restore it!! :) !!
July 3rd, 2013 @ 2:08 pm
Wow, this place screams, BUY ME AND FIX ME UP….
July 3rd, 2013 @ 3:22 pm
what was in the building in it’s more complete past?
July 3rd, 2013 @ 5:21 pm
How much is the deed? Any pictures of the outside?
July 3rd, 2013 @ 8:59 pm
Y ~ house/residential
M ~ I don’t know! It’s not for sale, but it seems to be left for dead, and I got the owner’s name from the county records ’cause I was really considering going for it…
July 4th, 2013 @ 9:20 am
You’ve captured the soul of a glorious old home. I would love to be able to bring her back to her old beauty.
July 4th, 2013 @ 10:50 am
Love, Shreve. Love. Dunno if you’ve seen the Beautiful Breakdown gallery on my site, but I just love images like this.
July 5th, 2013 @ 10:54 am
Abandoned structures tell beautiful stories.
July 5th, 2013 @ 3:36 pm
I love the way you captured the light in these photos.
July 7th, 2013 @ 8:00 am
So interesting – thanks for posting these beautiful, poignant shots, Shreve. Someone loved this home. Those intricate rafters in shot #7 indicate a great deal of thought (and genius?) went into its construction, don’t you think? Love the juxtaposition of old lath construction and palm tree wallpaper… in northern Wyoming.
July 8th, 2013 @ 8:49 am
Hmm, so many magical images that need a home for non-internetters, perhaps a photo Gallery or an area historical photo book or turn it into a farmhouse B&B Photo escape if the owners give up the house.
A local woman and historian/photographer put her pics of abandoned homestead cabins into a book and autotour and researched the original owners. Something that captures the imagination seeing light penetrating through an abandoned structure that was once a home.
http://www.jackrabbithomestead.com/primer.html
Friends are turning old homesteader cabins into steady income leaving the outside with the original 1955 paint but simply renovating the inside giving city folks a taste of the rural desert (with more personality than the motels along the road). https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/39492
July 8th, 2013 @ 5:55 pm
Looks like it was once a beautiful place….many fine angles and touches…
July 8th, 2013 @ 7:07 pm
Living in the city, abandoned houses are unheard of. I saw one in Nebraska on a trip there and now this one. I think they are the absolutely saddest this I have ever seen.
These images are haunting.
On a purely practical level, you can tell you live in a drier climate than here in Minnesota. All that would have been warped and rotted away in our climate!