Exploring a Mysterious Abandoned Building in Woonsocket

Curious about what folks think. Is this a crumbling old building? Was it constructed this way? Was it just repaired a hundred different times by inferior tradesmen? Or did this building suffer from some unknown event?

[@wileymettes]

This building has multiple personalities disorder. More walls!

[@davidwayne68]

Every square inch seemed different.

[@nellennatea]

Who did the property belong to? It seems like lots of different types of DO IT YOURSELF without using any instructions.

[@davidwayne68]

There are several layers to the narrative of how they were built. When you're standing there in person and touching the building you just know it's gone through an event. Here are some narratives for you to read. www.woonsocket.org/stone.htm

[@dougrennpferd904]

ribrickulous . hard to even formulate a question . the wall - bricks ...with render ? and cooked ?

[@stevewoodley5387]

Looks to be built out of demolished older world. Then built and scabbed together again for hundreds more years. I would love to give it one more renovation.

[@davidwayne68]

we all know the next renovation will be a quick pile of stones.

[@dianecernak7130]

What a find !! Mixed bag

[@RealLifeFinance]

This is way to whack for my brain

[@7hilladelphia]

What puzzles me is they're so randomly munted yet still conform to basic flat planes and angles in the original forms. Just weird as

[@davidwayne68]

Exactly! mesmerizing to say the least.

[@mrbeastfan7431]

🧱💚👍 lookin forward to saturday 👍!

[@shawnybee]

Great evidence.. nice find..

[@mantistoboggan2676]

To me that kinda looks like a Ship of Theseus situation. Many builders over a long period of time occupying the same space.

[@davidwayne68]

Well, it does sit in the Ocean State of Rhode Island.

[@aldosigmann419]

It's possible the workers were just drunk!

[@zayko5]

Mangled

[@shawnybee]

Right off the bat. . Awesome awesome...

[@davidwayne68]

This is all over Woonsocket! 😀

[@jeffreyyoung4104]

They built the wall using the common rubble and mortar style of the period of early mason construction, where the mortar/concrete has loose material added to the mortar to save on the expensive material. The added pipes are to allow water to ass through if needed, and to keep hydraulic pressure from tipping it over. But the building was field stone and rubble as well as cut and dressed stone corners, which was a more expensive construction means, but it had been modified and repaired with other types of material to try and match the original, except for the brick additions. However, the big building going down the hill, to a river? Perhaps. But it was built better than any of the other, and was a building for a business to be housed in for many decades/centuries, and it looks as if it is being taken care of. In certain parts of the world, stone construction was and is a very expensive, but permanent style of construction. Just because we use steel and concrete today, does not negate the older construction to pass into oblivion because it is old. It is possible to walk into the building and clean it out and start a new business there, and not worry about the building falling down. And with minor repair and maintenance, it should all last another century or more!

[@SouthernOntarioSasquatch]

Boom baby! LOVE those blocks!! Yeah!!! 💯

[@Broken_robot1986]

Incredible

[@Jeannie842]

No one would build that way

[@shawnybee]

That is right 👍

[@SouthernOntarioSasquatch]

Such a great find! Thank you!!

[@davidwayne68]

Your welcome 👍

[@christianwitness]

Recovery from mud-flood...😮

[@davidwayne68]

Ok but could one explain how mud caused multiple looking stones and bricks?

[@Mike-hr6jz]

It is easy to explain after World War II. Many buildings were bombed, and there was plenty of rubble everywhere and if you had a halfway square building to start with he would take anything you could find combo it together to create another building like this you see you when you don’t have any money, but lots of debris and concrete is cheap at the time. This is what you do for a basic shelter. This is the problem with your generation are you just as soon as the materials are abundant and plenty of money to afford a great engineer and architect to build a new building , maybe you should come off your high horse

[@davidwayne68]

@@Mike-hr6jz as far as I know no bombs were ever dropped on Woonsocket Rhode Island USA.

[@Mike-hr6jz]

@@davidwayne68 doesn’t have to be bombs just tore down Rhode Island get its fair share of hurricanes once in a while as well think of it is an art form using what you have not being the liberal rich kid

[@savannahsmiles1797]

out of line to say what you did...you are just as clueless about how that happened, speculation at best cuz as far as we know the US wasn't bombed like overseas...weather maybe

[@Mike-hr6jz]

@@savannahsmiles1797 look in the mirror you’ll see the definition of clueless and Le Batard all tied in one😂😂😂