In the early 1930s, major roads connecting cities in this area were converted into a highway and later into a freeway in the 60s. This sped up traffic flow, but wiped out more than a dozen of impressive, turn-of-the-century homes and farms in the process. Long time farmers and residents, then unable to pull out of their driveways into cars speeding by at 70 miles per hour, abandoned their homesteads or rerouted their way into the city.

Today, the fields are still farmed and many of the yards are still lined with cedar trees, but their grasses are long overgrown and their buildings have been bulldozed into their foundations. A rare few still stand, but are rarely visited by vandals or anyone else for risk of causing an accident while stopping.

Grand homes like this saggy duplex were quite common; large families were needed to support the big farms that operated here.

This home was clung to until the early 1990s when the owner died.

However, this 5-bedroom house, built with all modern conveniences, wasn’t lived in for more than 60 years before it was left to rot.