Ike Explores

This Factory was built in 1894. Westinghouse as a company was founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse (1846–1914), the inventor of the air brake and other devices, to construct and market AC electrical systems.

This factory lays in ruins as a shell of it former self and now sits as a graffiti canvas. A local artist usually will leave a mural here every year Several buildings were demolished that were apart of the factory. A scene from the first avengers movie was filmed here!

The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Homes were built in the early 1900s for steel mill workers. It was the result of a strike that happened in 1916, the strike was about the wages, affordable housing and working conditions. In May 1918, the company established a subsidiary, the Buckeye Land Company, to build houses and apartments on a 40-acre hillside site within walking distance of the company’s Campbell Works. In 1918-1920 this became historically important as the first pre-fab concrete estate in the world.

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company sold the houses in the 1940s and closed the Campbell Works in 1977. Since then, the concrete houses have been beset by abandonment, vandalism, and arson.

The city of Campbell and Mahoning County Land Bank started the project last month, the State Historic Preservation Office now says it needs to give its approval. Campbell hopes to make this site a green space and potentially a park. As of right now the demolition of the historic homes are on hold.

While out driving in the rural areas of Ohio I seen this sad abandoned school house caving in on itself. I had to stop and take a photo because it looked so surreal.
I took this photo in 2019 and as of today the whole thing has fully collapsed in on itself.