Hundreds of historic buildings are demolished carelessly every year in the United States. With them, millions of memories are wiped for new generations to forget.
Preserving History
Throughout the years, our small friend group maintained a hobby of "urbexing". Exploring abandoned buildings just to observe and photograph, much like anyone would at a park or museum. Instead of paved paths though, we opt for the overgrown and forgotten. The abandoned and the dilapidated.
It takes a certain kind of crazy to volunteer to enter a structure that can fall on top of you at any moment. And we didn't have a particular objective besides "ooo'ing and ahh'ing" at these buildings. That was until we realized that we could not only bring awareness to what history these buildings held with social media, but we could use that for something more. Contacting with those who knew these buildings from a different era, notifying those who have control over the property, and rescuing what corporations and land developers want to get rid of so desperately: some old building on the street corner. Some old factory off the main road. Some old farmhouse on the hill.
So we continue. Continue to push through the rusted doors, creaky floors and spend dozens of researching and finding what time has buried and hidden from us. We strive to paint these figurative canvases with new brushes of color that have faded with age through plat maps and newspapers, hoping what we do here can let the next generations experience them as we did.
Recovered Locations
What was previously thought to be a lost and forgotten property sparked a new journey for a passionate son and his family to revive their beloved grandfather's auto garage and house. We stumbled on this property from monitoring the local city's demolition list and found this one to be particularly interesting. Inside, the house was empty and used as storage. But the garage had a converted living space from an office. Where a secretary desk once sat, a bedset now rested. Where an employee handwashing station signage hung, a humble oven and kitchenette creaked. We needed to know more. Over the next few months and using the papers we found hidden within the filing cabinets spanning back to 1988, we were able to locate the family and save the property from demolition. As of February 2026, the property is being renovated and blighted sections are being removed...but not by the government, but by the people who had history built upon it. And that's what we're all about.
Dave's Auto Body
Scores Fun Center was an entertainment center in Painesville, Ohio tucked away in a small parking lot off the infamously busy Mentor Avenue. We originally heard from another colleague about "an abandoned bowling alley" and couldn't have anticipated the undertaking we were in for. We got in touch with the owner, George, as well as multiple former employees and got their stories and worked with them to salvage the building, welding doors shut, placing cameras on frequent break-in spots, and maintaining contact with law enforcement on the area, even prosecuting 5 individuals with multiple crimes. When the land was sold, our efforts were a key factor in enabling the next owners of the land to reuse the building to their use, rather than just demolish it entirely. We also worked with the former employees and owner to extract multiple containers of memorabilia and awards to distribute to rightful owners.
Scores Fun Center
Industrial Rayon Corp. was a string of factories, pioneering some of the most cutting-edge architecture and textile technologies for their manufacturing of rayon, a synthetic silk used in everything from socks to tires. The decreased needs for rubber and similar textiles after World War 2 proved fatal for the company, selling to Midland-Ross Co., another Cleveland company supporting the automotive industry. As a division of Midland-Ross, the rayon manufacturing division (known as IRC Fibers) became a division of American Cyanamid of New Jersey in 1969 where it was mostly sold and defunct as of 2009. We spoke with multiple employees from multiple sites who were apart of the IRC franchise, spanning from finance and HR workers to manufacturing and die workers. We anticipated making this into a small video documentary, but we were gratefully beaten by another YouTuber who made a comprehensive and beautifully-shot video before we could finish.
Industrial Rayon Corp
Ongoing Projects
Conneaut Lake Park is an amusement park dripping with over a century of history. Originally a boat landing in 1877, it became a proper amusement park in 1901. Though claimed as "historic" by the American Coaster Enthusiasts group in 2010, the park has become a political battleground for legal battles, tradition versus progress, and time versus nature. Though Conneaut Lake Park still technically stands, it's a shell of once it was with over 100 acres of attraction now reduced do a few attractions and a disappointing ownership. We've spoken with dozens of former visitors of the park as well as the Conneaut Lake Historical Society over the phone and in person for hours. We're excited to share this one!
Conneaut Lake Park
Houses, Diners, and more!
We're always looking around for any kind of buildings or structures that may have some history to it. Even it it doesn't, we'd love to document it!
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