Shorpy, abandoned mining town, great weathering examples

[deemery]

https://www.shorpy.com/node/27732?size=_original#caption

There's a variety of siding materials and a particularly beat up shingle roof, all of it pretty badly decrepit...

dave

[Bernd]

Metal brick. There's a building in Bergen, New York with metal brick.





Bernd

[deemery]

Yeah, looking again at the edges, you're right.  Metal brick, rather than Insulbrick.  

dave

[IWannaRetire]

This building is a former horse carriage house at the back of a family member's home outside Chicago.  You can see 2 different embossed patterns in the photo, it actually sports 3 different patterns.  House dates to 1870 something, not sure of carriage house, but from clues inside, it's construction looks like being a close contemporary of the house.

[Dave Buchholz]

Trying to remember....

I've seen that solo to the right of the Red metal brick written up in an article before. I even keep the pattern to make the roof.

Bernd was that you who wrote the article on the RLF group?

[Bernd]

Dave,

This could be the building you're thinking of. It's in Leroy. Harold Russell did drawings of it in MR.



This coal dealer is in Bergen.



Last time I was in Bergen the coal bins were gone. Would have loved to get the size of those coal bin blocks to make some models of them.



I often wonder who got that  sign. I'm sure it's residing in somebodies basement.

Bernd

[KentuckySouthern]

Neat images to begin, not getting the 3 Bernd posted above.

[Bernd]

Neat images to begin, not getting the 3 Bernd posted above.

I can see them. Anybody else having trouble seeing them?

Bernd

[deemery]

Just a reminder:  Sometimes it takes 15 minutes from the time an image was posted to the time it becomes generally visible.  A question to the forum software vendor yielded no insight on why this happens...

dave