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The wreckage of the abandoned Detroit Public School Book Depository, which has become a favorite of photographers into ruin-chic. The building, also known as the Roosevelt Warehouse, originally served as a post office, and stands at Fourteenth Street near Michigan Avenue. In 1987, a fire broke out on the third floor, and the school system decided to simply abandon the space. Years later, the Detroit Free Press caused a stir when it reported that thousands of textbooks and other school supplies in fine condition were still sitting in the building, gone to waste. These days, the warehouse serves as a makeshift shelter for some of the city’s many homeless. Last year, the Detroit News reported the discovery of a body frozen in a block of ice in the basement.

You can read the full story of the fall of the Book Depository on Sweet Juniper.

MCS Book Depository,” by Jonathan Haeber.

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