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UER Forum > Archived UE Main > Half-abandoned townhouses (Viewed 1041 times) Steed  Location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor  |  |  Half-abandoned townhouses < on 3/16/2009 5:45 AM >   This article shows an interesting concept, where a two-family townhouse is half-abandoned, meaning one half of the building slowly decays while the other half is kept occupied. Apparently it's becoming pretty common, at least in Camden, NJ, where the article is set. http://dornob.com/...d-townhouse-lives/ metawaffle  King of Puns Location: Brisbane! Gender: Male Purveyor of Fine Lampshades  |  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 1 on 3/16/2009 5:55 AM >   That's the second thing I've seen posted today that I'd believe was photoshopped! Fascinating stuff - surely this sets a challenge to our NJ contingent to find and photograph some examples? http://www.longexposure.net Jvelmar  Location: Taunton, MA, USA Gender: Male Hi!  |  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 2 on 3/16/2009 6:09 AM >   Wow, what a difference from one side to the other on some of them. TurboZutek  King Dick Location: Scotland Gender: Male Giant octo-penised rapephant  |  |  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 3 on 3/16/2009 12:30 PM >   There are a few examples of this where I live too. I would think anywhere with semi-detached houses would be seeing this to some extent these days Chris... We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. IIVQ  Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL Gender: Male Back in Urbex!  |  |  |  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 4 on 3/16/2009 1:45 PM >   I my neighborhood there's an apartment block (11 stories, 50 apartments per story) where half the block is being renovated and upgraded, and the other half is empty, really delapitated and ready to be demolished. Tijmen Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn? Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! JustINSANE  Location: NJ/Boston Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 5 on 3/16/2009 1:50 PM >   just go to Camden, NJ "brocore" yokes  Location: Toronto Gender: Male I aim to misbehave  |  |  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 6 on 3/16/2009 2:15 PM >   I've seen a few of these in Detroit (including where one half was burned out and the other half was occupied). "Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel D'void  Location: The Wild Mid-West Gender: Male Give me your $oul  |  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 7 on 3/16/2009 3:22 PM >   Posted by yokes I've seen a few of these in Detroit (including where one half was burned out and the other half was occupied). Yeah, that shit is fairly common in Detroit. I watched for two years as an elderly lady stayed in her town-house even after the rest of the place burned 3 times from arson. It finally came crumbling down last month. I really hope the old lady was ok. onlynDetroit.com complexity1022  Location: Eatontown, NJ Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 8 on 3/16/2009 10:31 PM >   lol good ol camden. only been through once and never again haha Coker19  Location: Westminster, Maryland Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 9 on 3/16/2009 10:53 PM >   Happens all the time in Baltimore and Washington. Richard Davies  Location: stockport Gender: Male The Trickster On The Roof  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 10 on 3/16/2009 10:56 PM >   There's a few semi detatched houses like that in the UK. When a new road was build in Stockport in the mid 1980s some houses had to be pulled down, & were compulsary purchased. In the end 1 pair didn't need to be demolished & were put back on the market. 1 side sold quickly while the other was empty for years, mainly because it was right next to this new road that can be busy 24/7. It was in a very bad state when eventually someone bought it, but now could hardly tell. You're Standing On My Neck TROGDOR  Gender: Male  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 11 on 3/16/2009 11:40 PM >   I noticed an example of this near me recently. I generally scoff at people who find abandonments "creepy" or "spooky," but I think it might weird me out to know that the space on the other side of my wall was boarded up and decaying. At the very least, it would bug me not knowing what it looked like. I think I'd have to break into it. sick hearts  Location: wpg . mb . ca Gender: Female  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 12 on 3/17/2009 2:12 AM >   this seems to be fairly common here too. i know i've seen more than a handful while out scouting. altaria  Location: Austin, TX Gender: Female  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 13 on 3/17/2009 3:05 AM >   Wow! I haven't seen anything like that out here. I agree that it would be a little odd to live attached to a place that is decaying. Thanks for the link! bandi  Lippy Mechanic Bastard Location: Trent Hills, ON Gender: Male A liminal mind is all I've ever known.  |  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 14 on 3/17/2009 4:57 PM >   It'd be fun to leave the attached portion looking totally derelict, but connect it to your house, and make it really nice in there. hi i like cars yokes  Location: Toronto Gender: Male I aim to misbehave  |  |  |  Paired Houses, but One Is Abandoned <Reply # 15 on 4/11/2009 10:34 PM >   Be sure to visit the link to see the accompanying photos. Paired Houses, but One Is Abandoned A photo essay. By Camilo Jose Vergara http://www.slate.com/id/2212784/ In Camden, N.J., perhaps the poorest American city I regularly visit, I photograph what I call paired houses: two dwellings, side by side, one occupied, the other empty. Those living in the occupied home often have their lives made more difficult by what happens on the other side of a shared wall. If I see a neighbor or meet the resident of one of the occupied houses, I ask how they're coping. They tell me that people throw trash in the front and back yards of the vacant unit, causing foul smells and attracting rats. Physical problems in the empty shell cause accelerated decay in the occupied house. Water may be left running in the unoccupied unit, causing moisture to migrate next door. In cold weather, pipes burst. Joists rot and collapse, tearing bricks out of the shared wall. And if the empty dwelling is not properly sealed, prostitutes and drug addicts may break in and start fires. If a resident of a middle-class neighborhood dies or moves to a nursing home, or if a dwelling burns, the empty house is usually guarded or secured by the owner's family. The police keep an eye out for it. Neighbors, well-aware of the impact of a deteriorating eyesore on property values, alert city officials whenever they see a house falling into disrepair. The situation is quickly brought under control. It's different in a crumbling inner city like Camden. Even Walt Whitman's old house at 328 Mickle St.—the only home he ever owned—was by the 1980s adjacent to a vacant three-story dwelling and just two houses away from a ruin. House values in Camden are low and likely to remain so since the population of the city is declining, unemployment is high, and there is little new demand for houses. The number of vacant houses is likely to increase; many will eventually be acquired by the city, which is too poor either to board them up or to demolish them. As if afraid to disappear anonymously, people who live adjacent to abandoned homes are actually more likely to decorate the fronts of their houses during holidays than those who live more securely. [last edit 4/11/2009 10:34 PM by yokes - edited 1 times] "Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel Navi23  Location: The Calculus Rock Gender: Male  |  Re: Half-abandoned townhouses <Reply # 16 on 4/12/2009 3:19 AM >   My friend has a picture hanging in his living room of one of these situations which he photographed sometime in 2005. We were walking by last year and the occupied house was now abandoned as well. UER Forum > Archived UE Main > Half-abandoned townhouses (Viewed 1041 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 187 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 740065258 pages have been generated.