BillsPics' photos with the keyword: shuttered

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

Old clothesline at a long abandoned farmhouse...

Forgotten homestead in the hills of southwest Nebraska...

Crossroads at a forgotten rural Iowa town....

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

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....

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....

Forgotten piano in a long abandoned Iowa one room schoolhouse....

Less and less of this long abandoned Iowa farmhouse is visible each year as nature slowly reclaims its territory....

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 most interesting building in the small northwestern Illinois village of Nora, population 120...

A long,silent hallway in the abandoned Kewanee Boiler office building in Kewanee, IL.The company, synonymous for it's boilers that powered manufacturering, government, and school buildings, abandoned the office many years ago. The whole factory complex, including this building, is currently under demolition....

This nice,but long abandoned farmhouse, was in relatively good shape just 5 years ago. But the effects of neglect come quickly....

This old northern Illinois farmhouse has been abandoned so long that trees have actually grown up in some of the doorways making entry impossible!

The sorry remains of the original Kewanee Boiler Plant in Kewanee, IL. The plant first began in 1868,and by the early 1900's Kewanee boilers were in manufacturing plants, government buildings, schools and churches, and ships all over the world. The plant at one time employed 4000 workers and still had nearly a 1000 in the early '70s. But more efficient ways of powering and heating became available and the plant was finally shuttered in 2002. Today only the badly dilipidated office building and this single metal smoke stack remain on the site....