The romance of old American industrial sites is usually confined to structures that were built after the Civil War and prior to the Great Depression. In the northeast, they define many settlements and transportation networks and much print has been devoted to discussions of their adaptation and re-use. Most will crumble, and I predict that this process will accelerate in the coming decades as the financial picture darkens for many of the small towns and cities that were so deeply linked to them. Soon, they will move from architecture to archaeology.
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