BillsPics' photos with the keyword: architecture

Part of an early farmstead near Phoenix,AZ. This is part of the Pioneer Living History Museum showcasing Arizona's early years...

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

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....

This old one room schoolhouse was closed in the 1950's and pretty much abandoned shortly after. A few years back a local restoration group was formed, and slowly restored the nearly collapsed structure. This is the fine result, opened earlier this year...

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....

Great vintage gas station still in operation in Orfordville, WI.

Historic stone church and school in the tiny village of Canton,IA. Church closed in the 1960's as the rural congregation dwindled and is now a state historical site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places...

The stunning St. John's Lutheran Church in St. Donatius, IL.

Abandoned Iowa mansion in the dead of winter....