Deconstruction
Another classic Iowa farmhouse that had seen better days. I was and am fascinated by such places, how square and true they remain long after any maintenance, how visible they are in a pasture with grazing cattle to keep the brush at bay, and how they seem to come apart so slowly board by board through the years. There is no shortage of abandoned homesteads where I'm from but they are much harder to contemplate. Without the working farms the houses are swallowed by trees and brush, decay encouraged by steady storms off Lake Superior, and roofs that loose the battle against the heavy snows of winter. I haven't gone back to my notes yet and a quick look over the aerials doesn't show any such place today (not surprisingly) but I think this may have been somewhere near Dudley, Iowa. April 11, 1998.
Deconstruction
Another classic Iowa farmhouse that had seen better days. I was and am fascinated by such places, how square and true they remain long after any maintenance, how visible they are in a pasture with grazing cattle to keep the brush at bay, and how they seem to come apart so slowly board by board through the years. There is no shortage of abandoned homesteads where I'm from but they are much harder to contemplate. Without the working farms the houses are swallowed by trees and brush, decay encouraged by steady storms off Lake Superior, and roofs that loose the battle against the heavy snows of winter. I haven't gone back to my notes yet and a quick look over the aerials doesn't show any such place today (not surprisingly) but I think this may have been somewhere near Dudley, Iowa. April 11, 1998.