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UER Forum > Archived US: Mid-Atlantic > Empty Campus (Viewed 850 times) mikmac  Location: Knoxville Gender: Female  |  Empty Campus < on 6/10/2010 10:35 PM >   Today, I went down to the somewhat abandoned college campus in my city. The college (established in 1875) has maybe 12 buildings and about 7 of them are empty. I figured I go building to building instead of shoving them all together. This set is of one of the dormitories.(Sorry, for the graininess. I'm not a photography person. I'm more of a 'point, shoot, and skip away' sort of person.) 1. The dormitory (built in 1893) has 4 floors (not including an attic and a basement.) 2. The ceiling and floors are a bit iffy, but for the most part everything was fine. 3. Everything was pretty much scrapped. Whether it was by a demolish crew or scrappers I don't know. 4. We heard people down stairs so we hid out in the attic for a bit. 5. 6. The hatch to the roof had been left open. Unfortunately, the view wasn't that interesting. (You can see the water damage on my lens in this pic.) 7. I found some pencil graffiti in a hidden little storage closet. It was a wall of people's names and their 5-digit phone numbers. 8.There was no modern graffiti (other than the pencil graffiti done in the 1890s) and no signs of homeless or kids. 9. ----------------------------------------- +10.This photo is from one of the two abandon houses that I went to in the same trip. not super interesting. Thanks :] DJ Craig  Moderator Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Male Break the Silence  |  |  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 1 on 6/10/2010 10:57 PM >   Great set! That's a cool place. I've heard of it before but never actually seen pictures or been myself. Welcome to UER! (I've known this girl for a long time by the way and she's the shit) "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess becckeez  Location: 804 Gender: Female trippin.  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 2 on 6/11/2010 1:16 AM >   for not being a photo person those a some lovely b/ws. really cool stuff bouncewiggle  Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Female  |  |  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 3 on 6/11/2010 2:34 AM >   for not being a photography person these are really quite good. =) "bouncewiggle, now more entertaining than Jell-O" aurelie  Location: pacific northwest Gender: Female high tech:: low life.  |  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 4 on 6/11/2010 2:37 AM >   I am a fan of number two. reckless thoughts abide; anachronistic and impulsive. loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing. insanebuslady  Location: ? Gender: Male "You talkin' to me?"  |  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 5 on 6/11/2010 5:34 AM >   Yea nice pics mikmac  Location: Knoxville Gender: Female  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 6 on 6/11/2010 6:02 AM >   Thank you for the encouragement :] (A paper doll is hidden in my favorite room for whoever explores that place next.) (This paperdoll was for someone so I hid it where I thought they'd look.) I doubt someone's going to look in the crevices I put my three-inch paperdolls, but that's okay. :] [last edit 6/11/2010 6:25 AM by mikmac - edited 1 times] Jordi  Location: Knoxville, TN Gender: Female  |  |  |  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 7 on 6/11/2010 2:02 PM >   welcome to UER Great set! And your paper dolls are adorable! AJHalliwell  Location: Stow, Ohio Gender: Male Ra Ra Ah-Ah-Ah, Ro-Ma Ro-Ma-Ma...  |  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 8 on 6/11/2010 2:12 PM >   Pictures 2 & 8 are beautiful! I love that bare wooden-strip behind-the-drywall kind of look in stereotypical dilapidated buildings. So this campus is empty + abandoned, not just empty for summer? Wow. mikmac  Location: Knoxville Gender: Female  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 9 on 6/11/2010 6:50 PM >   hi Jordi! Posted by AJHalliwell So this campus is empty + abandoned, not just empty for summer? It's a weird campus. There are active buildings extremely close to abandon building. The buildings basically go active, abandon, abandon, abandon, active. It's still a technically active college. We thought maybe most of the classes are online so they don't need the buildings. We went into the only active building we could find that day and found a bunch of old photos of the campus hanging on the wall. A woman told us we couldn't take pictures of the photos which was ironic since it was kind of obvious that we were just in the abandonment 30 feet over. We were covered with dust and sweat and had photography equipment. I guess it didn't occur to her. yay :] Timothy  Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 10 on 6/11/2010 9:44 PM >   I adore the paper dolls. Leaving them there for people is kind of neat, caching in a way. Your pictures aren't bad btw. I hope you go back. Check out my Flickr yo! http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmhodge/ BOX  box1  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 11 on 7/18/2010 7:33 AM >   Posted by aurelie I am a fan of number two. i'm not even going to say it. BOX  box1  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 12 on 7/18/2010 7:34 AM >   also, nice pics! bouncewiggle  Location: Johnson City, TN Gender: Female  |  |  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 13 on 7/18/2010 5:12 PM >   your paper dolls are awesome. you should put them in every (non soaking wet) abandonment you visit. i'm sure they'd make random people smile. =) edit: spelling [last edit 7/18/2010 5:12 PM by bouncewiggle - edited 1 times] "bouncewiggle, now more entertaining than Jell-O" joeyofnepal  Location: Memphis Gender: Male  |  |  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 14 on 7/27/2010 6:06 PM >   Older campus buildings are always beautiful. It's sort of depressing to see a school lose it's numbers, though. It's probabl there were/are tunnels between some of the older buildings. Any finds in the basements? [last edit 7/27/2010 6:27 PM by joeyofnepal - edited 1 times] There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. -Arthur C. Clarke ahhntzville  Location: Boston  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 15 on 7/27/2010 6:18 PM >   Posted by BOX i'm not even going to say it. LOL. Looks like maybe the building was abated of asbestos plaster, leaving just the wood lath behind. Katetron  Location: Middlesex New Jersey Gender: Female melting your brains  |  |  |  Re: Empty Campus <Reply # 16 on 7/27/2010 7:48 PM >   fucking gorgeous building but i like color pics better your paper dolls are freaking adorable too many people not enuff swet UER Forum > Archived US: Mid-Atlantic > Empty Campus (Viewed 850 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 125 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 740155284 pages have been generated.