We all live in beautiful cities, towns, buildings, and houses, and they represent our culture and history. They also express our values and aspirations. Architecture from the past illustrates our ancestors, their lifestyles, values, and outlooks. The buildings started becoming taller since the last decades of the nineteenth century. In the 20th century, we built some of the incredible buildings and landmarks. We have demolished some iconic landmarks and buildings that once represented our culture and history.
Here below, we have compiled some of the most incredible buildings, train stations, offices, hotels, and many other architectures that we have demolished. Also, check demolished landmarks and structures of New York City.
#1 Pennsylvania Station, 1910.
#2 Erie County Savings Bank, Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York, circa 1908.
#3 Imperial Hotel Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1904.
#4 North Terminal Station, Boston, Massachusetts, 1890s.
#5 Chicago & North Western Railway Station, Milwaukee circa 1899.
#6 Detroit Post Office, 1912. The old Federal Building, a Romanesque Revival extravaganza completed in 1897.
#7 Riverside Inn, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y. Circa 1909.
#8 Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, New Jersey circa 1906.
#9 Victorian house, Dubuque, Iowa, April 1940.
#10 Hotel Astor, Times Square, New York, 1909.
#11 The Singer Building, New York circa 1913.
#12 Wabash Station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1905.
#13 Indiana National Bank, Virginia Avenue, 1904.
#14 ity Hall Post Office, New York State, 1905.
#15 Hotel Manhattan, 42nd Street, New York circa 1904.
#16 Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, 1900.
#17 Young’s Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City. 1905.
#18 Terminal Station at Canal Street, New Orleans circa 1910.
#19 The Wabash Bridge over the Monongahela River, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 1938.
#20 The Firs also known as the Hatheway House, located at Mile Road in New Baltimore, 1901
#21 Kay Hotel near the Junction of Main and Delaware Streets, Kansas City, Missouri, 1906.
#22 Etowah County Courthouse, Gadsden, Alabama, December, 1940.
#23 Post Office, Fourth Avenue and Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh circa 1904.
#24 Campus Martius, Detroit, 1890s
It was demolished in 1960 to build a underground parking garage.
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#25 The Metropolitan Building, originally known as the Northwestern Guaranty Loan Building.
#26 Hotel Ponchartrain Detroit, Michigan, circa 1912.
#27 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York, circa 1911.
#28 Tower of City Hall after earthquake and fire, San Francisco, April 1906.
#29 The Sun newspaper building on New York’s Park Row, 1914.
#30 Produce Exchange, Toledo, Ohio, 1899.
#31 Deer Island Light off Boston, 1906.
#32 Jamaica Avenue, Queens, New York, 1944.
#33 Diamond Bank Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1909.
#34 Ryan Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota, circa 1905.
#35 Boardwalk and Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1904.
#36 Mechanics Hall, Huntington Avenue, Boston, 1906.
#37 Courthouse, Columbus, Ohio, 1907.
#38 Hotel New Mathewson, Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, circa 1910.
#39 Betz Building, Broad and South Penn Square, Philadelphia circa 1900.
#40 Waukesha Hotel and Rector Bath House — Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1905.
#41 Stoneleigh Court, Washington, D.C., circa 1925.
#42 Hotel Shelburne, Atlantic City circa 1910.
Originally built in 1869 and over the years went through a slew of owners and renovations before finally being demolished 117 years later in 1986.
