BillsPics' photos

Another vintage gas station in the small Wisconsin town of Orfordville. This one found re-purposing as a sweet shop in recent years....

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

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...

This old fence post and wire is a survivor, it dates to the 1960's most likely. It is also the last post left in this fence line, not basically a marker between fields...

Long forgotten farm in the middle of a southern Illinois cornfield...

Taken at a historic recreation of an early blacksmithing shop in Northern Illinois....

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

Another shot of my favorite abandoned car, a 1934 Dodge Brothers coupe. This is the ultimate barn find!

A scene at Bear Country Wildlife Preserve near Rapid City, SD.

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 Dodge Brothers coupe is a favorite subject of mine. It sits,seemingly forgotten, in an old decaying barn far off the beaten path. The owner is now too old to restore it,but apparently can't part with this rare 1934 survivor....

An old steam engine endures another long northern Illinois winter. It is the last of a fleet of steam engines that were once used at a local Steel manufacturer, now long out of business....

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

Forgotten barn surviving another bitter northern Illinois winter....

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....