Photographer creates panoramas of Philadelphia's abandoned places
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Mount Gretna-based photographer Matthew Christopher has created a striking series of 360-degree panoramas that showcase several of Philadelphia's most notable abandoned buildings and the USS United States — known to Ikea patrons as the rusting cruise ship moored off of Deleware Avenue.
Most prominent are a series of panoramas from several levels of the defunct Richmond Generating Station, a 1920s power plant built in a neo-classical style that was modeled off of Roman bathhouses. The main steam plant was shut down in 1984 and much of the structure has been picked apart by scrappers, although the power company Exelon still lists the plant's smaller oil plants as "active" backup generators for instances of peak demand.
In addition to other abandoned structures from around the Northeastern United States, the site also offers perhaps one of the last glimpses into the interior of the Church of the Assumption, which has been threatened with demolition for several years.
