Lost & Found

Sometimes not all things abandoned have no meaning, what appears rundown and empty holds many memories from the past. Walking through these places allows you to create your own story of what you believe happened before coming to this eerie and lonely place. These pictures have the ability to create stories, even if you never witnessed them, you can still imagine the events that occurred. Each photo taken was hidden in its own history that we uncovered. We went out and found our own adventures and documented it. Now you can go make your own and document it yourself.

The feeling of filling in the puzzle with your own imaginary pieces. This may make a person who has come to this couch, what brought them here of all places, and what was going through their mind when sitting here looking out. And who will continue to visit this place and see all of the stories that were left behind after me.

A couch sits neatly inside a cold and silent abandoned house in St. Louis. The house was near Cementland, an old abandoned theme park that never was finished in St. Louis. Everything was destroyed completely except for one chair.

The remains of a strip in downtown St. Charles stands with broken and punched-out windows. Now, many have recently been replaced with plastic windows with a mesh design on them to indicate their new stability. This building was part of the strip at the bottom of the old town street, a strip that once hosted a sort of meeting hall, a mechanic shop, and even an art museum. All of these buildings have long since been abandoned to deteriorate by the hand of the unforgiving and indecisive Midwestern weather.

An old house in Cottleville - or rather, what’s left of it - sits in an open field of unkempt property, alone and uncared for. Despite the various vines and other plants that have grown over and through the house’s cracks, the solitary building never ceased to be a sight to behold in the beaming sun, begging any passersby to bring it back to life.