A Photographer Finds Beauty In Decaying Theaters Around The World [PHOTOS]
Palace Theatre in Gary, Indiana was built in 1925 and served as a movie theater until it was abandoned in 1972 after the town's US Steel plant went into decline.
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Detroit's Eastown Theater was built in 1931, but degenerated in the '60s and '70s into a notorious drug den and rave site. It has stood abandoned since the late 1990s.
Source: Historic Detroit
The Hubert Elementary School building in Brightmoor, Michigan was built in 1921 and shut down in 2005. This is what remains of the kids' theater.
Source: Detroiturbex.com
Simply listed as "Sanitarium, Germany" in her book, Solis's picture of this former theater with the sun poring in is one of the most haunting images.
Source: Stages of Decay
The Metropolitan State Hospital in Waltham, Massachusetts was a public hospital for the mentally ill until it was shut down in 1992 as a state cost-saving policy.
Source: Barnes & Noble
Grabowsee Heilstätten was opened in 1896 for tuberculosis patients in Germany, and was used as a soviet hospital after WWII. It was finally abandoned after the reunification of Germany.
Source: Derelict Places
The Michigan Theater in Detroit was built in 1925 in the French Renaissance style, and was extremely lavish. It has since been gutted and turned into a parking garage.
Source: Stages of Decay
The Thomas Edison School in Pennsylvania was originally built in 1905, and has sat vacant since 2002. This year, it was announced the building would be completely demolished.
Source: Hidden City Philadelphia
Beelitz-Heilstätten was built in 1898 and was once German's largest sanatorium. Now the 60-building complex is visited only by those wanting to see its macabre grandeur.
Source: EXBERLINER.com
Originally called the Norwich State Hospital for the Insane, this abandoned building in Connecticut was built in 1904 and was fully-operational until 1996.
Source: Yahoo!
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