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Night Ruins | Saratoga County, New York
This 19th-century ruin likely served the canal economy, built of local stone and brick, with a chimney suggesting industrial use. Structures like this once lined canal corridors, supporting mills, warehouses, and workshops that moved goods through the interior.
The interior with concealed LED panels, a method I’ve used on barns, farmhouses, and abandoned roadside ice cream stands. The red light creates visual contrast, making it easier to read the structure’s layout and surface detail. It emphasizes openings, material changes, and what still holds together, while adding a degree of mystery to spaces no longer in use.
Remnants like this are part of the ghost infrastructure still found along the edges of historical industrial zones, structures left behind as canal routes shifted and economies moved on.
You can read more on my Substack Restoration Obscura.
This 19th-century ruin likely served the canal economy, built of local stone and brick, with a chimney suggesting industrial use. Structures like this once lined canal corridors, supporting mills, warehouses, and workshops that moved goods through the interior.
The interior with concealed LED panels, a method I’ve used on barns, farmhouses, and abandoned roadside ice cream stands. The red light creates visual contrast, making it easier to read the structure’s layout and surface detail. It emphasizes openings, material changes, and what still holds together, while adding a degree of mystery to spaces no longer in use.
Remnants like this are part of the ghost infrastructure still found along the edges of historical industrial zones, structures left behind as canal routes shifted and economies moved on.
You can read more on my Substack Restoration Obscura.
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