[photoLith]

I decided to post this in buildings and architecture instead of my city photos, since there aren't one specific city but a whole giant region of the US. Anyways...

For the past 7 years I have been systematically photographing every noteworthy and or mostly unknown historic churches of the Rust Belt and close to rust belt historic churches. Been to every town, nook/cranny, and city of the Rust-Belt from Baltimore to Detroit, Lansing, western Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, St. Louis, northern Kentucky, Indiana, Chicago, Milwaukee, most of Illinois, Buffalo, Rochester, all of Pennsylvania photographing every last beautiful historic church of the region. Its taken tens of thousands of dollars and tons of time to do it. I am finally nearly finishing this journey; only have have a few most rust belt or those in close proximity to the rust belt churches to go. Here is the fruit of my labour. I am publishing a book on all of these churches and hope to enlighten Americans of the beauty of this countries and mainly regions church architecture and the importance of its preservation.

Most Americans are clueless of the boundless beauty that surrounds them when it comes to architecture. Everyone thinks you have to go to Europe to see beautiful and richly historic churches. This is clearly not the case. I am by no means religious, in fact I mostly despise religion. But, the architectural legacy and history that the buildings represent needs to be preserved. I have been documenting these treasures for the better part of a decade because most of the rust belts churches are closing and or will eventually close. The architecture and history will be lost forever, unless something is done to preserve them.

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