History and photography

Miscellaneous

Acco Building

Located in Wellston, Ohio.

Cincinnati Price Hill Incline

The Price Hill Incline connected Mill Creek in what is today Lower Price Hill with Price Hill in Cincinnati, Ohio. Connecting the disjointed West 8th Street, the idea of General Rees E. Price, a wealthy Welsh merchant.

Morehead State University Natatorium

Closed to the public in 1988, the Morehead State University Natatorium was demolished after preservation architects deemed the building to be unusable. It was once billed as the "epitome of swimming pools."

Morehead State University Natatorium

Morehead State University Natatorium

The Quadrangle

The Jeffersonville Quartermaster Intermediate Depot had its earliest beginnings during the early days of the Civil War and served as a clothing factory for the troops. It entered other uses over the years before becoming abandoned. It is now renovated.

Raceland Race Track

Stone Mule Stable

Located in the Boneyfiddle district of Portsmouth, Ohio, this forbidding building with its thick stone construction and bars across the windows served as a mule stable for a quarry that operated across the adjoining Scioto River.

Tennessee State Prison

Tennessee State Prison, located minutes from downtown Nashville, was modeled after a penitentiary in Auburn, New York. Designed to instill fear into the prison population, its layout and appearance is that of a fortress, containing the prisoners within thick, stone masonry walls along the banks of a wide and swift Cumberland River.

West Virginia Penitentiary

Located in Moundsville, West Virginia, the West Virginia Penitentiary is a Gothic-styled prison that housed some of the most violent criminals in the United States. The prison opened in 1876; the last prisoners left in 1993.