By: alexei
Might not end up being cheaper after all. The caption on the picture of the new school states "The new school in 2010. Five years after its opening, the school still struggles with issues related to...
View ArticleBy: psycho-alchemy
It really seems strange to me that it is cheaper to build a new building than it is to maintain an older one.
View ArticleBy: The Deej
Thanks Huron Bob... Yeah, nostalgic; I've seen a ton of Cass Tech photos over the years, and even saw the school in mid-demolition when I visited Detroit last time. But this is the first time I've seen...
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Deej.... it's got to be hard for you to look at these... hang in there....
View ArticleBy: The Deej
In fairness, it looks like the footprint of the old building will be used for, yes, some parking, but also a baseball field.
View ArticleBy: schmod
c0nsumer: "Sort-of buried in this and important to remember is that the new Cass Tech school which was built quite recently stands directly next to the old, which hasn't been torn down yet. This...
View ArticleBy: oneirodynia
Damn. What gets me is all the waste. Those beautiful wood floors in the gym and dance room, the lab counters that look like actual soapstone... all just left to rot. You'd think when a school was...
View ArticleBy: The Deej
See this larger, totally haunting, gallery of the abandoned school before it was demolished. posted by bicyclefish Thanks for that link. Photos 32 and 33 show the letterpress I actually ran many...
View ArticleBy: The Deej
In the gymnasium photos, you can see the railing above the gym floor. This was a banked running track. 22 laps equalled a mile, and I ran many many laps on that track. One day, at the end of my run, I...
View ArticleBy: bicyclefish
The then-and-now photos are neat, but the images are actually much more powerful without the overlays. See this larger, totally haunting, gallery of the abandoned school before it was demolished.
View ArticleBy: The Deej
Nice treatment of the photos. I graduated from the old Cass Tech in 1979. And, it was torn down over a year ago.
View ArticleBy: dd42
c0nsumer: "Sort-of buried in this and important to remember is that the new Cass Tech school which was built quite recently stands directly next to the old, which hasn't been torn down yet. This...
View ArticleBy: zsazsa
Thanks for the supporting info, c0nsumer. I was feeling kinda bummed since some of the "then" pictures looked pretty recent. Good to see the school is empty because the students have a brand new...
View ArticleBy: Countess Elena
I found this beautiful, but I also felt a bit guilty because Detroit has such a problem with overproduction of ruin-porn these days. It shouldn't have to make a statement about Detroit in particular,...
View ArticleBy: c0nsumer
Sort-of buried in this and important to remember is that the new Cass Tech school which was built quite recently stands directly next to the old, which hasn't been torn down yet. This frequently is...
View ArticleLewis Cass Technical High School, Then and Now
Detroit's Lewis Cass Technical High School, Then and Now. Period photos superimposed over the historic building's abandoned interiors, presented by detroiturbex.com.
View ArticleBy: nTeleKy
How does a building fall apart that quickly? It looks like it's at most a decade or so since it's been uninhabited and yet the ceilings are pretty much entirely disintegrated, the paint is almost all...
View ArticleBy: c0nsumer
Sorry, I would have sworn I saw the old Cass Tech building when driving past on I-75 a few weeks ago. I guess it has been torn down, though.
View ArticleBy: The Deej
There was a fire in the building in 2007. Photo gallery here. So, yeah, windows busted out, water sprayed on everything; that'll destroy things pretty quickly.
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