Ghostly Ruins: America's Forgotten Architecture
Harry Skrdla

30 abandoned locations around the country are depicted in black and white photographs, some archival, some taken by the author, but its not a photo book, the point is just to show the place. Includes Wyndcliffe, on the Hudson, the Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, the state hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts, and the usual places in Detroit (Packard Plant, Michigan Central Depot, Book-Cadillac Hotel). These sites are now the confirmed icons of American Ruins, and this is an unabashedly romantic book, with a thoughtful infiltrator-turned-preservationist kind of sensibility.

Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, paperback, 224 pages.