Abandoned Demolished Buildings

Commenters reminisce about historical buildings, landmarks, and sites that have been abandoned, demolished, or redeveloped, sharing personal stories, Street View links, and regrets over their loss.

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mfharr Apr 20, 2023 View on HN

Looks like they're rebuilding on the same corner.

MartinCron Sep 3, 2014 View on HN

Sadly, it doesn't look that good anymore. It's all boarded up with a "coming soon" sign for something that's probably some sort of elaborate scam on it. Pretty sad, actually.

KZerda Nov 5, 2021 View on HN

It's a shame that that lobby's been closed to the public for decades. Seems like it would have been an interesting place to kill a half hour or so on an idle saturday. Though if you go around the corner on the street view, you can see them doing work on the well, bringing in a crane of some sorthttps://goo.gl/maps/w6ujppKu2TDVVSdG9

ben_w Dec 22, 2025 View on HN

Phased out during my lifetime. I grew up with them as part of the suburban architecture, e.g. <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/DUNHAM-BUSH+LIMITED/@50.8634181,-0.9695587,3a,75y,108.58h,97.58t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sN6UUND2iDzt6tS8Il4_qlw!2e0!5s20090601T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-7.57819719993347%26panoid%3DN6UUND2iDzt6tS8Il4_qlw%26yaw%3D108.57748296

polotics Dec 13, 2024 View on HN

too bad that with this having been knocked down in the early 90's, there won't be any 3D scan of the thing...

jndsn402 Jan 7, 2015 View on HN

Not sure how it's relevant to HN, but as someone who passes through Penn almost every day, an interesting read. A real shame - looking at those pictures I can't even imagine that it used to look like that.

wizzerking Apr 17, 2018 View on HN

I'm sorry I was not able to find what you are looking for. The terms you used were too generic, not specific to the article I used google with building site:https://news.ycombinator.com"building Worse" site:https://news.ycombinator.com and other terms with a 1 year cutoff but nothing with lots of pictures was shown on the fi

riffic Mar 21, 2021 View on HN

I think calling a former/defunct bank location "abandoned" is a stretch.

Xc43 Dec 28, 2022 View on HN

History, yes. The actual obsolete building housing humans, no.

harshreality Aug 13, 2021 View on HN

Reminds me of Bell Labs.https://www.abandonedamerica.us/bell-labs