BillsPics' photos with the keyword: dilapidated

A long forgotten old northern Illinois barn prepares to weather a storm....

Historic, but badly neglected, old farmhouse in northeast Iowa.

Bureau County, IL.

A great rustic crib along Bluff Road near Princeton, IA.

This old dairy barn has not seen a cow in years and the farm around is slowly decaying away. But the star on the barn is pretty new, so perhaps not all is lost....

Old clothesline at a long abandoned farmhouse...

The remnants of a midwest farm sit in the middle of a beautiful cornfield in Central Illinois.

Forgotten homestead in the hills of southwest Nebraska...

Crossroads at a forgotten rural Iowa town....

The last filling station in the ghost town of Vulture City, AZ.

This photogenic abandoned central Illinois farmhouse finally lost its presence recently. Now only memories linger....

Vulture City boomed in the late 1870's. with the discovery of gold. By the 1890's,it was on the decline but was worked until World War Two. The isolated town, which once had a population of nearly 5000,was then abandoned. In recent years, much of the remaining structures have been stabilized and lovingly restored and the old mine is being worked again.... Vulture City is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

This old Iowa one room schoolhouse hasn't seen a student in over 60 years. As the cold and snow sets in,the foreboding atmosphere adds to its desolation....

Old Wisconsin dairy barn in severe decay. Wisconsin is still one of the United States leading dairy states, but the number of small dairy farms has contracted greatly in the last 25 years....

Long abandoned Illinois farmhouse surrounded by the colors of the season...

This old grain elevator hasn't seen a customer in over 30 years, a victim of bigger and more progressive agricultural practices. It used to have a railroad line running beside it, that is now long gone as well. There are rewards to progress, but there are losses as well. Character is definitely one of them...

A shot of the administration building at the former Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois. The prison's unique architecture was drawn up by WW Boyington,designer of Chicago's famed Water Tower.It was built by contractors using prison labor in 1858. It closed in 2002. Sadly this building cannot be entered anymore due to extreme interior collapse....

The chapel at the closed and formerly abandoned Old Joliet Prison. Joliet was the site of Illinois's first state prison, opened in 1858. It house female inmates till a separate women's prison was built next door in 1896. The prison was distinct for its exterior Gothic design elements. The cells didn't have separate plumbing till a 1950's remodel! The prison was closed in 2002,and basically abandoned by the state except for 2004-5 when the TV drama "Prison Break " filmed its first season there. The city finally took possession in 2017 and opened parts of the badly decayed and vandalized prison for public tours....