{"id":246,"date":"2008-02-25T13:53:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T19:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/urban-exploration\/"},"modified":"2012-10-17T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:27:15","slug":"urban-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/urban-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruins of an abandoned church – Gary, Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

CMC was shut down in the 70’s due to a lack of attendance and suffered a fire in ’97 (thanks to Corby for the correction!). To this day,\u00c2\u00a0 stands in the streets of Gary, Indiana as a relic of the past – the vast sanctuary, shadowy hallways, and decaying innards a testament to the ravages of time.<\/p>\n

After about three minutes of driving around a bit aimlessly, I saw a spire above a few old looking buildings about a street away from me. I navigated my way over and found myself at the base of one of the biggest and most beautiful abandoned buildings that I’d ever seen. The second I ducked into a side door, I knew that I’d found it. To the left, a stage littered with all sorts of clothing and wreckage. To the right, a small room leading into a huge sanctuary.<\/p>\n

I left after snapping a few photos and returned later with Elise. Here are the results:<\/p>\n

First, we hit the sanctuary. It was beautiful, cold, and quiet. Snow drifted in through holes in the \u00a0 roof and settled on the brick floors.<\/p>\n

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Following that, we made our way to other areas of the building. The theater, long destroyed, showed no sign of snow, but the upstairs auditorium was completely coated with a thin dusting.<\/p>\n

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On our way down, we saw a makeshift living room set up. I assume someone moved this stuff for a photo or something, but I’d like to think a crazy man lives here in the summer.<\/p>\n

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Even long abandoned and freezing cold, animals make this beautiful building their home.<\/p>\n

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I plan on getting back there as soon as possible to take more photos – we had to give up eventually because the sun was quickly fading and our fingers were completely numb from the cold. I plan on exploring more of Gary with my camera soon in the future, as well as the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n

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CMC was shut down in the 70’s due to a lack of attendance and suffered a fire in ’97 (thanks to Corby for the correction!). To this day,\u00c2\u00a0 stands in the streets of Gary, Indiana as a relic of the past – the vast sanctuary, shadowy hallways, and decaying innards a testament to the ravages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,54,9],"tags":[38,99,98,39,40,62],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-abandonments","category-churches","category-photography","tag-abandoned","tag-church","tag-decay","tag-exploration","tag-gary","tag-urban","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cityeyesphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}