Fading Finger Lakes Structures, Images and Verse

The 24 structures depicted here have seen better days. All are located in the central Finger Lakes Region of New York State. Each image is paired with a poem conveying the allure and intrigue of deserted and abandoned structures. Poems by Conant, Kilmer, Frost, Dickinson, Whitman, Tennyson and other well-known authors are included.

The photographer is Michael W. Duttweiler, a career-long adult educator with Cornell University Cooperative Extension. He has long-standing interest in local history of the Catskill Mountains, Finger Lakes, and other regions of New York. Now retired, he lives with his family in Ithaca, New York.