Pittsburghers are slow to give up their ghosts. Rusted skeletons of
industrial mills and rail depots line the rivers, corroded reminders of
a city's past forged in steel; churches built in the nineteenth century
by devout East European immigrants now stand desanctified and decayed;
structures that once epitomized the pinnacles of science, commerce,
transportation, and manufacturing are empty reminders of how Pittsburgh
earned its name as The Steel City.
Often named the most livable city in the U.S., with a stunning skyline
framed by soaring bridges (more than any other city in the world) and
its magnificent three rivers, Pittsburgh retains reminders of its
historic past that live on beside the gleaming new skyscrapers.
From the steel-plated inferno of Carrie Furnace and Duquesne Steel Works
to the holy shadows that inhabit St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church,
Abandoned Pittsburgh: Steel and Shadows points a lens into these
darkened, forgotten places where a haunting beauty still exists.