Fout Place, July 2023

I thought I would check up on the house at Fout Place and see how–oh wait, what am I talking about? Of course it’s doing terrible, just like the last six times I visited! I’ll have to admit recently I’ve gotten really burned out taking photos of abandoned, burned out and collapsing buildings. As I…

Fout Place, Spring 2021

Readers had been inquiring about the house at the corner of Cook and Whittier, so I went by and checked up on it. Overall, the house looks to be doing about the same as it always has been, but I would not expect its roof to last too many more severe storms or winters. There…

West Down Cook Avenue from Whittier

Update: I revisited the house at Cook and Whittier above in the Spring of 2021. I was checking up on one of my favorite houses in the city, the stately manse at the southwest corner of Cook and Whittier, and I proceeded west down Cook Avenue, where there are some more exceptional examples of early…

In Between Delmar and Page Avenue, Revisited

Update: Here are some more photos from this area in 2019. I returned to that area just north of the Central West End near Lewis Place, and checked in on some of the houses that I had photographed before. The apartment building below has continued to deteriorate, though the collapsed front porch has been cleaned…

Disheartening Sight, Late July 2016

This house is still standing, but I wonder for how much longer. The street closure has to do with infrastructure improvement, not the risk of eminent collapse of the house.

A Disheartening Sight

Update: Urban Assets is now defunct, and the property has a new owner. This house was part of a development known as Fout Place, which is now its own tag where you can view all of the times I’ve visited this street. Every so often, I see a house that’s abandoned, falling apart, and I…