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 Zephyr
   
Location: Buffalo
Gender: Male
 |  | German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
< on 6/21/2010 12:55 AM >
|  | | | I was very surprised to see this today. The conversion to apartment housing is actually happening. The two dorm buildings are no longer joined together - the kitchen area between them has been demo'd. All the other buildings are still standing, but probably not for long. It doesn't look like the interiors have been touched yet, so there might be time for a last look inside.
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nightbird
     
Girl Moderator
Location: Buffalo, NY
Gender: Female
Gone abortin, BRB
| | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 1 on 6/21/2010 1:09 AM >
| | | | From Buffalo Rising:
Two existing, three-story, rectangular, brick/clay-block towers will be substantially renovated creating 12 two-bedroom apartments in each building. The circa-1938 chapel will also be incorporated into the plan and will become a community center. Demolition of the remaining orphanage buildings was approved by the Buffalo Preservation Board.
Six new one and two-story brick structures will be constructed. Two of the buildings will contain six, four-bedroom units; one building will have six, three-bedroom units; two buildings will have four, three-bedroom units; and one building will contain ten, three-bedroom residences. All of the units will be affordable for households at or below 50% of area median income.
http://www.buffalo...ject-underway.html
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sybertag
Location: Buffalo, NY
Gender: Male
| | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 2 on 6/21/2010 3:28 AM >
| | | | This is depressing. I was just talking about this place today and planning a trip there sometime this summer,guess it had better be sooner rather than later.
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Zephyr
Location: Buffalo
Gender: Male
| | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 4 on 6/21/2010 9:46 PM >
| | | | Posted by Adv.Pack
That sucks. I was just up there this year and missed out. Does anyone have any interior pictures?
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There's probably thousands of them on the internet/flickr if you search for them. It was a popular place for a long time.
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trent
I'm Trent! Get Bent!
Location: Drainwhale hunting
Gender: Male
Not on UER anymore.
| |  | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 5 on 6/22/2010 2:14 PM >
| | | | Wow, I'm guess I'm lucky to have visited that in twice in the past year.
He who rules the underground, rules the city above.
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velcrozeppelin
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Male
Mandalorian Mayhem
| |  | | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 6 on 6/22/2010 2:16 PM >
| | | | I'm glad I got to see it when I did! Although I'm still a little sad that a return trip is now out of the question.
Me goin' legit would be like JarJar on speech therapy.
I'm on Flickr now! My Flickr Stream | I'm about as thick as a Bryk. |
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bfinan0
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Male
| | | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 7 on 6/22/2010 2:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by Zephyr_NY
There's probably thousands of them on the internet/flickr if you search for them. It was a popular place for a long time.
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This was one of the very few locations that the local UER explorers were willing to share with me, back when they would still let me explore with them, so I do have some photos of it from last year
http://www.uer.ca/...rrpage=2&pp#post22 [post 22]
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 8 on 6/22/2010 2:23 PM >
| | | | I'm glad that "we" are losing this location to renovation and reuse than to the wrecking ball. It is great that new life is being brought to the old buildings that are being saved.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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offlimits
Location: buffalo
Gender: Male
| | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 9 on 6/27/2010 12:33 PM >
| | | | I was surprised hearing this, because nothing ever gets done in Buffalo, and this place sits in a very questionable neighborhood, the kind of place that doesn't usually attract investment dollars. This meant, if you read Nightbird's article, that public money had to be used, and that usually means the old buildings get whacked, not saved. In this case, good for them, nice to see... That being said, this building really isn't a huge loss, since its integrity was compromised long ago by its re-use. It appears to have been used most recently as a school for inner-city children, so any explorers looking to find clues relating to its past life as a late 19th-early 20th century orphanage were disappointed...
http://www.flickr....otos/96576503@N00/ |
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taxidermydarling
Location: Toronto
Gender: Female
| | | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 10 on 6/27/2010 4:15 PM >
| | | | This is disconcerting. We have been there it was so beautiful, when the lilacs are in bloom incredible.
thanks for letting me know it is now gone.
it felt like it would be there indefinitely
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taxidermydarling
Location: Toronto
Gender: Female
| | | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 11 on 6/27/2010 4:19 PM >
| | | | my profile picture was taken inside the stairs of the dormitory building
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MidnightGenius
Location: Rock Hill SC
Gender: Female
| |  |  | | | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 12 on 7/3/2010 2:59 PM >
| | | | Bummer. I was there on a meet a whie ago, got some great pictures too. I'd panned to take my friend who lives in Buffalo there once he got back from japan, but it looks like that's not going to happen now.
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lumpyguitar
Location: Fort Collins, CO
Gender: Male
Bacon.
| | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 13 on 7/7/2010 1:41 AM >
| | | | I just drove by there on work today and was scoping it out for an adventure. Sadly, 2 cops were sitting out front.
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Shawn W.
Location: Niagara Falls, NY
Gender: Male
Optimistic Pessimist
| | | | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 14 on 7/7/2010 2:39 AM >
| | | | Posted by lumpyguitar
I just drove by there on work today and was scoping it out for an adventure. Sadly, 2 cops were sitting out front. |
Interesting, considering that they didn't care about it before. Perhaps they do now because something is actually being done with the property.
What is a rebel? A man who says no. - Albert Camus |
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lumpyguitar
Location: Fort Collins, CO
Gender: Male
Bacon.
| | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 15 on 7/7/2010 12:47 PM >
| | | | I'm guessing it has to do more with the nieghborhood..although I'm new to Buffalo so I don't really know whats considered bad. Any chance you'd care to explore sometime? I'm looking for some new people as I left mine behind.
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trent
I'm Trent! Get Bent!
Location: Drainwhale hunting
Gender: Male
Not on UER anymore.
| | | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 16 on 7/7/2010 1:06 PM >
| | | | It's probably so construction materials don't get stolen and providing a deterrent effect to keep thieves away.
He who rules the underground, rules the city above.
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trailbound
Location: buffalo, ny
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: German Catholic Orphange - Buffalo
<Reply # 17 on 7/7/2010 1:56 PM >
| | | | Posted by trent
It's probably so construction materials don't get stolen and providing a deterrent effect to keep thieves away.
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I agree with the construction materials, that stuff would disappear real fast.
http://www.flickr....otos/15383804@N04/ |
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