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THE BREATHTAKING THEN-AND-NOW PHOTOS OF AN ABANDONED DETROIT HIGH SCHOOL

• Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:42am by  Liz Klimas
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Some would argue the city of Detroit has experienced a boom and bust like no other in the last century. With the automotive and factory industry in the 1920s and onward spurring the city’s population, infrastructure to support it followed. But industry changes led to economic downfall that depressed the city, causing much of the population to leave, while its infrastructure remains, crumbling.

The website Detroiturbex.com is featuring the dilapidated state of the city. It states that “Detroit has no other option but to change.” The project is on hand “documenting that change.”

One of its projects is of the abandoned, original building of Cass Technical High School. The project put together eerie then and now images. Here are just a sampling of those:

Detroiturbex Cass Tech Then and Now

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  /Detroiturbex.comThe 1917 entrance, early 1920's and present day.
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  /Detroiturbex.comA librarian helps a student.
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  /Detroiturbex.comVolleyball in the gym
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  /Detroiturbex.comSecurity station on the first floor.
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  /Detroiturbex.comThe couch on the top left is actually still there today
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  /Detroiturbex.comFirst floor of the old auditorium.
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  /Detroiturbex.comA school dance in the gym.
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  /Detroiturbex.comMusic room in the new wing.
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  /Detroiturbex.comLibrary with computers
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  /Detroiturbex.comThe gymnasium in the new wing.
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  /Detroiturbex.comOne of several biology labs.
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  /Detroiturbex.comThe former book store.
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  /Detroiturbex.comVolleyball in the gym.
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  /Detroiturbex.comDance hall in the new wing.
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  /Detroiturbex.comSecond floor hallway.
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  /Detroiturbex.comA 1988 basketball game superimposed over the present-day condition of the old gymnasium.
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  /Detroiturbex.comThe 1919 structure was supposed to be torn down after the new building's construction, but as of 2010, is still standing.

The group also takes you through an interactive photo tour of the building’s 10 levels (a cool feature is as you click each each level it builds the school up higher). The imagery for the interactive Cass Tech model was created with Google Sketchup Pro. Detroiturbex constructed it using blueprints, student records and a survey of the buildings in 2010 when they photographed each room.

(Image: Detroiturbex.com)

The entire get-up took more than a year to finish. Be sure to take the interactive tour through the school on Detroitturbex’s website here.

The school itself was founded in 1907 with the original building being completed in 1919. The new Cass Tech building was constructed in 2004 and the old school experienced a fire in 2007. Detroiturbex states that just five years after opening, the new school suffers from “shoddy workmanship and poor planning.”

You can see more of Detroiturbex’s photos of the school in a then-and-now slideshow format here.

The Detroiturbex project as a whole is intended to “raise awareness of the social and economic challenges the city of Detroit faces through photography.” The artist acknowledges that many of the places documented, like many urban exploring adventures, have not been accessed legally.

Detroiturbex has cased churches, neighborhoods, parks, schools and other buildings extensively. Find more about them here.

(H/T: Business Insider)