1 Via Wiki Commons/Seattle Municipal Archives Between fires, wars, demolitions and renovations, these historic buildings around the ... 1 Via Wiki Commons/Seattle Municipal Archives Between fires, wars, demolitions and renovations, these historic buildings around the world have been lost forever. Burke Building – Seattle, Washington Completed in 1891, demolished in 1971 and replaced by the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building. 2 Via Wiki Commons/Unknown Het Steiger Canal – Rotterdam, Netherlands What the canal looked like before it was destroyed in 1940 during WWII, and today. 3 Via Wiki Commons/William McFarlane Notman Old City Hall – Winnipeg, Manitoba Built 1886, demolished in 1962. 4 Via Wiki Commons/Umbugbene Prentice Women’s Hospital – Chicago, Illinois Opened in 1975, demolished in 2014. 5 Times Square – New York City, New York Through the years. Via Wiki Commons/Brown Brothers Via Wiki Commons/TedQuackenbush Via Wiki Commons/TastyPoutine 6 Via Reddit/CrotchWolf The Bucket of Blood Saloon – Detroit, Michigan Considered the toughest bar in Detroit at the turn of the century, it was demolished in the early 1960s. 7 Broad Street Station – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Built in 1881, demolished in 1953. Via Wiki Commons/William Herman Rau Via Wiki Commons/Christian Liebscher 8 Via Wiki Commons/Unknown RMS Titanic’s Reading and Writing Room Completed and sank in 1912. 9 Via Wiki Commons/Sk The Sutyagin House – Arkhangelsk, Russia Local crime lord Nikolai Petrovich Sutyagin illegally built this house over a 15 year period beginning in 1992. A year after it was completed, it was condemned by the city and torn down in 2009. 10 Via Reddit/WilJake Denver Mining Exchange Building – Denver, Colorado Built in 1891, demolished in 1963 to build a 42-story tower, which was the tallest in Denver at the time. 11 Via Wiki Commons/Official Photographic Company Entrance to “Creation” at the 1904 World’s Fair – St. Louis, Missouri Taken down immediately after it closed on December 1, 1904. 12 Via Wiki Commons/Stengel & Co. Haas Palace – Budapest, Hungary Built in the 1870s, it was damaged in an airstrike during WWII and then finally demolished in 1959. 13 Cliff House on Ocean Beach – San Francisco, California 1902 to 2019. Via Wiki Commons/Unknown Via Wiki Commons/Brocken Inaglory 14 Via Wiki Commons/W. N. Manning Southern Hotel (Gulf City Hotel) – Mobile, Alabama Built in 1837, demolished in 1934. 15 Via Wiki Commons/Philafrenzy Welbeck Parking Garage – London, England Built in 1970, demolished in 2019. 16 Via Reddit/walkerforsec Transfiguration Cathedral – Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Built in 1822, demolished in 1931. 17 Via Reddit/sverdrupian Queen Hotel – Beverly, Massachusetts Opened in 1889, destroyed in a fire in 1891. 18 Via Reddit/10001010111001111100 Erie County Savings Bank – Buffalo, New York Completed in 1893, demolished in 1968 and replaced by the Main Place Tower. 19 Via Reddit/-PLEASE-ELABORATE- Fort Street Union Deposit – Detroit, Michigan Opened in 1893, demolished in 1974. 20 Via Wiki Commons/Unknown Cabaret de L’Enfer – Paris, France Opened in 1892, demolished in 1950. 21 Via Reddit/richbrook101 117 Fenchurch Street – London, England Built in 1921, demolished in 2015 to make way for 120 Fenchurch Street. 22 Via Wiki Commons/Chicago Architectural Photographing Company Home Insurance Building – Chicago, Illinois Built in 1885, it was the world’s first skyscraper. It was demolished in 1931 to build another Chicago landmark, the Field Building. 23 Via Wiki Commons/Emil Boehl Broadway at Washington Avenue – St. Louis, Missouri All these buildings from 1892 are gone. 24 Via Wiki Commons/Unknown Essen Hauptbahnhof – Essen, Germany The railway station before and after WWII. 25 Via Reddit/RedPandaParliament Park Terrace – Duluth, Minnesota Built in 1890, demolished in 1936. Only some stairs and walls remain on the vacant hillside. 26 Via Wiki Commons/Max Missmann Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church – Berlin, Germany Built in the 1890s, the church was badly damaged in a bombing raid in 1943. What’s left of the main spire of the old church still stands today. 27 Via Reddit/BleedTheFreak_23 Baltimore American News Building – Baltimore, Maryland Built in 1875, destroyed in the Great Baltimore Fire in 1904. 28 Cossitt Library – Memphis, Tennessee Opened in 1893, after several renovations the majority of the original structure was gone by 1958. Via Wiki Commons/Detroit Publishing Co. Via Wiki Commons/Swoswo 29 Via Wiki Commons/Brooklyn Museum The 1900 Paris Exposition – Paris, France The Palace of Electricity and the adjoining Water Castle were taken down immediately after it closed on November 12, 1900. 30 Via Flickr/British Library Coolidge Tavern – Watertown, Massachusetts Built in 1742, George Washington slept here in 1789. It was demolished in 1918 to make way for the development of the Watertown Yard streetcar terminal. 31 Via Reddit/antwoneoko 51-55 State Street Apartments – Springfield, Massachusetts Built in 1890, demolished in 1958 and replaced by an office building that has sat vacant for years. 32 Via Wiki Commons/Jacob Olie Paleis voor Volksvlijt – Amsterdam, Netherlands Completed in 1864, destroyed in a fire in 1929. 1 Via Reddit/moose098 Westminister Hotel – Los Angeles, California Opened in 1887, demolished in 1960. 2 Via Reddit/ShwinMan Anhalter Bahnhof – Berlin, Germany Opened in 1880, this is what it looked like pre and post WWII, and what’s left standing today. 3 Via Reddit/BringbackMarchais Funicular railway to Notre-Dame de la Garde – Marseille, France Built in 1892, demolished in 1974. 4 Via Reddit/TarTarianPrincess Board of Trade Building – Toronto, Ontario Built in 1892, it was one of the first skyscrapers in Toronto and stood until 1958. 5 Via Reddit/woodyman Crappo Building – Bay City, Michigan Built in 1891, refaced in 1960, and rediscovered in 2017. 6 Via Reddit/sussoutthemoon Old Detroit Opera House – Detroit, Michigan Opened in 1898, demolished in 1966. 7 Via Reddit/antwoneoko Parsons Block, aka The Flatiron Building – Holyoke, Massachusetts Built in 1876, demolished in 1952. 8 Via Reddit/AnthemiusOfTralles The port city of Smyrna – Modern day İzmir, Turkey Before the Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922 which destroyed most of the city. 9 Via Reddit/yakovgolyadkin Hasselgården – Oslo, Norway Built in 1902, renovated beyond recognition in 1970. 10 Via Flickr/trialsanderrors The 1900 Paris Exposition – Paris, France Built for the fair and demolished right after. 11 Via Reddit/AvielanderBright Penn Station – New York City, New York Opened in 1910 and demolished in 1963 to make way for Madison Square Garden. 12 Via Reddit/DJ-Salinger Union Station – Columbus, Ohio Opened in 1897, demolished in 1979. 13 Via Reddit/AvielanderBright The ruins of the Temple of Bel – Palmyra, Syria Dated to 32 AD, the ruins were considered among the best preserved in Palmyra until they were destroyed by ISIS in 2015. 14 Via Reddit/sverdrupian The Bank of Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Built in 1896, demolished in 1957. 15 Via Reddit/DonPecz The Great Synagogue of Warsaw – Warsaw, Poland Built in 1878, destroyed by the Nazis in 1943 during WWII. 16 Via Reddit/YoungCallum Nocton Hall – Lincolnshire, England Built around 1530, destroyed in a fire in 2004. 17 Via Picryl Old Detroit City Hall – Detroit, Michigan Built in 1871, demolished in 1961. 18 Via Reddit/AvielanderBright Tesnov Train Station – Prague, Czech Republic Opened in 1875 and demolished in 1972 to make room for a highway and park. 19 Via Reddit/Plivumaso A Ceremonial Gate built to greet Franz Joseph I of Austria – Prague, Czech Republic Built in 1907. 20 Via Reddit/frecklefactor Pan-Pacific Auditorium – Los Angeles, California Opened in 1935, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 but was destroyed in a fire in 1989. 21 Via Reddit/antwoneoko The First City Hall of Springfield – Springfield, Massachusetts Built in 1855, destroyed in a fire in 1905. 22 Via Reddit/AvielanderBright Leipzig Opera – Leipzig, Germany Opened in 1868, it was destroyed in WWII, and the modern opera house was rebuilt in 1960. 23 Via Wiki Commons Lewisohn Stadium – New York City, New York Opened in 1915 and demolished in 1973 to make way for the North Academic Center. 24 Via Reddit/moose098 Bryson-Bonebrake Building – Los Angeles, California Built in 1888, demolished in 1934. 25 Via Reddit/Hazard262 George Lamb Memorial Chapel – Hull, England Built in 1893, it was devastated by a fire in 2015 and now only ruins are left, held up by scaffolding. 26 Via Reddit/Novusod Town and Country Center – Houston, Texas Built in 1977, demolished in 2017. 27 Via Reddit/Plivumaso Old Town Hall – Prague, Czech Republic Built around 1840, the east and north wing were destroyed by a fire in 1945 during the Prague uprising and never rebuilt. 28 Via Reddit/AvielanderBright Theater am Habsburger Ring – Cologne, Germany Opened in 1902, destroyed in bombings during WWII. 29 Via Reddit/bosstone42 Mechanic’s Hall – Boston, Massachusetts Built in 1881, demolished in 1959. 30 Via Reddit/pseudangelos North British & Mercantile Insurance Company Building – Edinburgh, Scotland Built 1905, demolished and replaced 1966. 31 Via Reddit/redofhair The Rotunde – Vienna, Austria Built in 1873 for the Vienna World Fair, it was the largest cupola construction in the world, larger than the Pantheon in Rome, until it burned down in 1937. 32 Via Reddit/Styner141 Tilburg Central Station – Tilburg, Netherlands Opened in 1863, demolished in 1961. 33 Via Reddit/frecklefactor Odeon Theater – London, England Opened in 1938, the theatre closed in 1970 and was eventually demolished in 1988. 34 Via Reddit/AvielanderBright The American Embassy – Berlin, Germany Before and after WWII. 35 Via Wiki Commons Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel – Atlantic City, New Jersey Opened in 1906 and demolished in 1978 and replaced by Bally’s Park Place Casino and Hotel. 36 Via Reddit/redofhair 9th Regiment Armory – New York City, New York Built in 1894, demolished in 1971.
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