Modern Ruins: Portraits of Place in the Mid-Atlantic Region

abandoned buildings American anthracite industry anthracite region architectural Bannerman’s Island Arsenal became Bethlehem blast furnaces Buffalo State Hospital buildings—Pennsylvania—Pictorial built Carrie Furnaces castle cell blocks central Coal Company coke Connellsville Constitution Island culm banks Detroit early economic employed hundreds environmental costs explore forests Francis Bannerman Geoff Manaugh goal hard coal Haviland’s Homestead Hospital Huber Breaker Hudson River inclined plane railroad individual plants industry employed inmates insane asylum inside institutions interest iron KEYSTONE BOOK landscape look Luzerne County Mahanoy memory mentally ill MetaFilter Mid-Atlantic region Miners mines MODERN RUINS Monongahela River Mountain nearby Nick’s nineteenth century number of blast operated patients Pennsylvania State University Philadelphia photograph ruins Pittsburgh Pollepel Island preservation prisoners Reading Anthracite remains scale Shaun O’Boyle ship smell social Society Solitary confinement steel plant steelmaking structures Susquehanna River technological twentieth century University Press Valley Wilkes-Barre Wind Farm workers