Bennet Collage in New York was once a school for girls, enrolling 120 pupils each year. The girls would be educated at high school for four years then an additional two years at higher education. May. F. Bennet, a schoolteacher moved her girls here in 1907 at the building was a hotel prior to the school. The higher education element of the building brought problems for the school as they attempted to convert the two year higher education into four years higher education. This brought the school into debt and then later shut in 1977 due to bankruptcy. The building has been empty with no use since. in 1933 the building was placed on the national register of historic places but in 2014, despite many community protests, the building will soon be demolished.
These pictures of Bennet Collage have three key elements that I think give an abandoned and disturbing feel.
1) - The Sky. In two of the images the sky has been edited in two different ways. In the first image the clouds have been edited too high light the clouds and how dark they look. The second way is that the image has either been taken at dusk or dawn. The image has then been manipulated to make the colours in the sky a lot more prominent. Both of these editing techniques are setting a frightful feel too the whole picture.
2) - The Architecture of the building. You can tell the building is old due to the shapes of the roof and the wood paneling on the outside of the building.
3) - Maintenance. The growth of the trees, bushes and wildlife is taking back over its land. It is obvious that no one has been maintaining the growth of the plants suggesting the place is abandoned. Also the maintenance of the building externally, smashed windows and decaying structure, suggests the building has been left too rot.