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Red Apple Rest, Southfields, NY

The abandoned Red Apple Rest is located in Southfield, NY. I photographed it in August 2013. If you Google the site, you find out a lot about it:  It was opened in 1931 as a rest stop along the way from Manhattan to the Catskills. When the Thruway was opened, bypassing the road, in addition to people no longer vacationing in the Catskills, the business went down hill and eventually closed.

Location: Google Maps

Former Mule Barn & Church, Kingston, NY

Information about this site can be found at this website.  Some information quoted from that website:

In Ponckhockie stands a ruin at the dead end of little-traveled Yeomans Street. Its high concrete facade looks vaguely like a church, but in fact it was built about 1870 as a mule barn for the Newark Lime & Cement Manufacturing Company, Kingston’s “largest manufacturing establishment” in 1880. The barn itself demonstrated through its concrete walls the structural and decorative possibilities of the company’s product.  The manufactory closed in 1905.  Some 20 years after the closing, Emanuel Baptist Church prepared the ground level of the building as temporary quarters for the church. At the same time ambitious plans were announced to turn the structure into “an up to date religious and social center”.  Looking at the property now, there is no indication of how the interior was revamped for the church’s use. The only clear sign of the church’s presence is a broken and weathered segment of the cornerstone inscribed with the church’s and King’s names and the church’s founding date, 1926.

Map:  Location on Bing Maps

Former Ehmer Meat Market, Poughkeepsie, NY

Photos of the building most recently signed as the Ehmer Meat Market on Main Street in Poughkeepsie between South Hamilton Street and Academy Street, on the south side of the street.  During renovations in 2013, the old sign was removed, revealing signage of its previous usage as the French Pastry Shop and Restaurant.  An undated historic photograph shows the French Pastry sign.