Long Beach/Pleasure Beach

• Amato, Anne M. "Without a Bridge, Community Awaits Its Fate." The New York Times. The New York Times, 22 July 2000. Web. 05 Feb. 2016.

• Avril, Tom. "Police In Three States Seek Links In 5 Deaths With Cut-up Bodies The Latest Crime Occurred In Connecticut. Officials From N.J. And N.Y. Went There To Compare Notes." Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Aug. 1994: n. pag. Philly.com. Web.

• Burgeson, Jeff. "Job of Clearing Stratford's Long Beach Goes to Milford Firm." Connecticut Post. N.p., 23 Feb. 2010. Web.

• Burgeson, John. "The Cottages Are Coming down on Long Beach West." Connecticut Post. N.p., 22 Oct. 2010. Web.

• Cavanaugh, Jack. "Plan to Revive Pleasure Beach." The New York Times. The New York Times, 05 Mar. 1988. Web. 05 Feb. 2016.

• Charles, Eleanor. "PLEASURE BEACH, LUSTER LONG LOST, AWAITS ITS RENEWAL." The New York Times. The New York Times, 06 Sept. 1986. Web. 05 Feb. 2016.

• Decerbo, Frank W. "Spectacular Blaze Destroys Ballroom at Pleasure Beach." The Bridgeport Post 5 May 1973: 1. Print.

• "Fighting for Their Place in the Sun." The New York Times. The New York Times, 26 July 1997. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• "Flames Damage Planking On Pleasure Beach Bridge." The Bridgeport Post 19 Aug. 1957: 1+. Print.

• "LONG BEACH." The History of Lordship. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• Motavalli, Jim. "Pleasure Beach: A Place for Birds and People." Audubon. N.p., 26 Mar. 2012. Web.

• Musante, Fred. "For Want of a Bridge, A Season's Undone." The New York Times. N.p., 30 June 1996. Web. 05 Feb. 2016.

• "No Delay Seen in Beach Season." The Bridgeport Post 12 May 1919. 62: 22. Print.

• Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport. Fairfield: Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886. Print.

• Pehanick, Andrew. Bridgeport: 1900-1960. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 2009. Print.

• "Referee Backs Stratford in Short Beach Dispute." The Bridgeport Telegram 15 May 1963: 1+. Print.

• Reitz, Stepanie. "Time Passes Pleasure Beach." The Hartford Courant. N.p., 04 Aug. 2002. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• "Stratford to Ask State To Approve Bridge Plan." The Bridgeport Post 26 Mar. 1967: 2. Print.

• "Town Weighs Extending Road to Long Beach." The Bridgeport Post 15 July 1960: 12. Print.

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Lee Plaza Hotel

• Austin, Dan. "Historic Detroit." Lee Plaza. N.p., n.d. Web.

• Austin, Dan. Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins. Gloucestershire: History, 2010. Print.

• Coston, Casey. "Restoring the Roar." Detroit Metro Times. N.p., 5 Mar. 2003. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• "Detroit Schools Suffer from a Culture of Corruption; Principals Charged with Kickbacks." Holland Sentinel. N.p., 28 Apr. 2016. Web. 1 May 2016.

• Fournier, Holly. "Buyer Seeks $200M Redevelopment of Lee Plaza." Detroit News. N.p., 19 Nov. 2015. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• Kiser, Grace. "Detroit's Unemployment Rate Is Nearly 50%, According to the Detroit News." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 8 Mar. 2010. Web.

• Pinho, Kirk. "Lee Plaza Project Faces Uphill Climb." Crain's Detroit Business. N.p., 20 Nov. 2015. Web.

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Gary, Indiana

• Carson, Carole. "More Houses Coming down in Gary's Blight Fight." Post-Tribune. N.p., 12 June 2015. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• Ciment, James. Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2007. Print.

• "City United Methodist Church of Gary, Indiana." Sometimes Interesting. N.p., 16 June 2013. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• Davich, Jerry. Lost Gary, Indiana. Gloucestershire: Arcadia, 2015. Print.

• Hopper, Jessica. "Gary, IN: Not Quite 36 Hours." Chicago Reader. N.p., 17 May 2007. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• Lambros, Matt. "The Palace Theatre." After the Final Curtain. N.p., 15 Sept. 2011. Web. 09 Mar. 2016.

• Lane, James B., and Ronald D. Cohen. Gary, Indiana: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach: Donning, 1983. Print.

• Lane, James B. City of the Century: A History of Gary, Indiana. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1942. Print.

• Miano, Jonathan. "God's Forsaken House: Gary Church Could Become Country's Largest Ruins Garden." Nwitimes.com. N.p., 5 Dec. 2014. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• Noel, Josh. "A Lovely Day in -- Gary?" The Chicago Tribune. N.p., 19 June 2014. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• Pete, Joseph S. "U.S. Steel Starts Layoffs of up to 323 Workers at Gary Works." Nwitimes.com. N.p., 24 Apr. 2015. Web. 09 Feb. 2016.

• Terry, Don. "Hatcher Begins Battle to Regain Spotlight in Gary." The New York Times. The New York Times, 05 May 1991. Web. 09 Mar. 2016.

 

Forest Haven

• "Abandoned Home for the Abandoned: Forest Haven Asylum." Sometimes Interesting. N.p., 12 Apr. 2014. Web. 30 Dec. 2015.

• "Admit White Slavery Charge." The Plain Speaker [Hazleton] 20 Oct. 1954: 19. Print.

• Anderson, Jack. "Fate of Retarded Disgrace." The Laredo Times 29 Nov. 1978: 4. Print.

• Bellamy, Jennifer. "From Filthy Boys Prison to New Beginnings: Hill Staffers Walk a Mile in Youthful Offenders' Shoes." American Civil Liberties Union. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.

• "Blacks, Mentally Retarded Find They're Not Wanted in New Jersey." The Post-Crescent [Appleton, Wisconsin] 5 Aug. 1976, sec. A: 5. Print.

• Boo, Katherine. "Forest Haven Is Gone, But the Agony Remains." The Washington Post 14 Mar. 1999: A01. Web.

• "Faulty IQ Test Put Her in Institution : 'Mildly Retarded' Woman Held 57 Years." The Los Angeles Times 11 June 1987: n. pag. Los Angeles Times. Web.

• Forman, James, Jr., and Reid H. Weingarten. "New Hope at Oak Hill." 24 Dec. 2007: n. pag. The Washington Post. Web.

• Maurer, Pablo. "Abandoned D.C.: Inside The Ruins Of The Forest Haven Asylum." DCist. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2016.

• Pelton, Tom. "Haunting Symbol of Neglect Forest Haven: Ruins of a D.C. Mental Institution in Anne Arundel County Are a Magnet for Young Ghost-hunters, Arsonists and Vandals." The Baltimore Sun. N.p., 03 Dec. 1998. Web. 29 Dec. 2015.

• Services, Gao Knowledge. PL 91-490 H. Rep. No. 704, 88th Cong., 1st Sess. (1963). To Accompany H.R. 7440 from the House the Committee on the District of Columbia (n.d.): n. pag. Web.

• Waas, Murray. "Bleak House : As Patients Died One by One, a Washington D.C. Home for the Mentally Retarded Became One of the Nation's Most Deadly Institutions. Eventually, Forest Haven Was Closed, but Questions Linger about How the Nation Cares for Those Entrusted to Its Protection."Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 03 Apr. 1994. Web. 28 Dec. 2015.

• "Woman Confined for 45 Years." San Bernardino County Sun 25 Oct. 1978: 2. Print.

 

Schenley High School

• Asbestos & Hazardous Materials Inspection for Pittsburgh Public Schools at Schenley High School. Rep. Vol. I. Coraopolis: L. Robert Kimball & Associates, 2009. Print.

• Brown, AmyJo. "Asbestos at Schenley High May Have Been Less Prevalent than Believed." Pittsburgh City Paper. N.p., 25 June 2012. Web.

• Chute, Eleanor. "Schenley High School Building in Oakland Sold to Developer." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. N.p., 28 Feb. 2013. Web.

• Coyne, Justine. "State to Audit Pittsburgh Public School Finances." The Pittsburgh Business Times. N.p., 27 Jan. 2014. Web.

• Gaul, Harvey B. "Schenley Organ Contract Awarded." The Pittsburgh Sunday Post 25 June 1922, sec. 6: 1. Print.

• Kalson, Sally. "Much History Will Be Lost with Closing of Schenley." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. N.p., 10 Nov. 2005. Web.

• Lowry, Patricia. "Historic, Asbestos-plagued Schenley Deserves Reprieve and Makeover." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. N.p., 22 Feb. 2006. Web.

• Nicosia, Mareesa. The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 13 Oct. 2015. Web.

• Oresick, Jake. "Why We Fight for Schenley." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. N.p., 25 June 2008. Web.

• "Penna. Schools Teach All Kinds." The Morning News [Danville] 10 Nov. 1930: 5. Print.

• Pittsburgh Public Schools. Communications and Marketing. Board Approves Relocation of Pittsburgh Schenley Grades 10-12 for 2008-09 School Year. Pittsburgh: n.p., 2008. Print.

• Pittsburgh Public Schools. New Estimates Confirm Renovation of Schenley Facility Too Costly for Financially Challenged District. Pittsburgh: n.p., 2013. Print.

• Pittsburgh Schenley High School Summary of Recent Plaster Related Events. Rep. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

• "PMC Acquires Pittsburgh's Schenley High School." PMC Property Group. N.p., 5 Dec. 2013. Web.

• Rauterkus, Erik. "End of an Era–Schenley Prepares to Close Its Doors Forever." The Eagle. N.p., 3 June 2011. Web.

• "Schenley High School Bids Are Advertised." The Pittsburgh Gazette Times 9 Oct. 1914: 7. Print.

• "Schenley School to Open With Fall Term." The Pittsburgh Sunday Post 17 Sept. 1916: 6. Print.

• "School Plans Go To Board." Pittsburgh Daily Post 17 Feb. 1914: 2. Print.

• "Schools Have Big Enrollment." Altoona Tribune 3 Oct. 1916, morning ed.: 4. Print.

• "Splendid Schenley High School, Erected at a Cost of Nearly $1,500,000, Ready for Occupancy." The Pittsburgh Press 17 Sept. 1916, Theatrical sec.: 6. Print.

• "Symbol of City's Progress." Pittsburgh Sunday Post 13 Aug. 1916, sec. 2: 2. Print.

• Zlatos, Bill. "District Presses to Close Schenley." Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. N.p., 20 Nov. 2007. Web.

• Zlatos, Bill. "'Ghosts of Past' Plague Closed Schenley High School in North Oakland." TribLIVE.com. N.p., 11 Feb. 2013. Web.

• Zlatos, Bill. "Vote on Closing Schenley High School Delayed." Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. N.p., 21 Feb. 2008. Web.

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The SS United States

• Dake, Shawn. "S.S. UNITED STATES, The Turkish Years 1992 – 1996: What Might Have Been." Maritime Matters. N.p., 28 Feb. 2013. Web.

• Englund, Will. "One-time Pride of U.S. Fleet in Limbo Asbestos Thwarts Renovation Plans." The Baltimore Sun. N.p., 02 Nov. 1993. Web.

• "FACTS | SS United States Conservancy." SS United States Conservancy. N.p., n.d. Web.

• Gammage, Jeff. "SS United States Gets $5.8 Million Lenfest Donation." Philadelphia Inquirer. N.p., 02 July 2010. Web.

• "Genting Hong Kong." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web.

• Gormley, John H., Jr. "$2.6 Million Bid Wins SS United States International Group Plans Renovation." The Baltimore Sun. N.p., 28 Apr. 1992. Web.

• Kunzig, Robert. "The World's Fastest Ocean Liner May Be Restored to Sail Again." National Geographic. National Geographic Society, 8 Feb. 2016. Web.

• Miller, William H. Picture History of the SS United States. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2003. Print.

• Miller, Zoe. "Record-Breaking SS United States to Be Restored to Its Former Grandeur." Observer. N.p., 09 Feb. 2016. Web.

• Pesta, Jesse. "Donations Help the S.S. United States Fend Off the Scrapyard." The New York Times. The New York Times, 23 Nov. 2015. Web.

• Pesta, Jesse. "Friends of the S.S. United States Send Out a Last S.O.S." The New York Times. The New York Times, 07 Oct. 2015. Web.

• Ujifusa, Steven B. "Onboard the S.S. United States." PlanPhilly. N.p., 30 May 2007. Web.

• Ujifusa, Steven. A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. Print.

• "US Asbestos Bound for Turkey." Green Left Weekly. N.p., 3 May 1993. Web.

 

The Fallside Hotel

• "The Fall of Niagara Falls." Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg, n.d. Web. 14 Jan. 2016.

• Fink, Jim. "Once-popular Falls Hotel Ready for a 21st Century Facelift - Buffalo - Buffalo Business First." Buffalo Business First. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Jan. 2016.

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The Randall Park Mall

• Armenta, Hannah. "The Death of Randall Park Mall: Mall Monday." Cleveland.com. N.p., 27 July 2015. Web.

• Downing, Margaret. "A Closer Look at Dillard's." Houston Press. N.p., 08 Jan. 2004. Web. 15 Jan. 2016.

• Putz, Andrew. "Magic Makeover." Cleveland Scene. N.p., 16 Dec. 1999. Web. 18 Jan. 2016.

• Tavernise, Sabrina. "Outside Cleveland, Snapshots of Poverty’s Surge in the Suburbs." The New York Times. The New York Times, 24 Oct. 2011. Web. 15 Jan. 2016.

• Village of North Randall Master Plan. Publication. Cleveland: Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, OH. Print. January 1999

 

Taunton State Hospital

• Larocque, Marc. "Taunton State Hospital Offers Years of Service and Healing." The Taunton Daily Gazette, Taunton, MA. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Jan. 2016.