Lost in America

Lost in America documents the life and death of America's architectural and historic treasures. The book is based on a remarkable archive created by the Historic American Building Survey (HABS), a Works Progress Administration project that still documents the nation's most important buildings.

Lost in America focuses on 100 buildings that have been torn down over the past 90 years. Some-like New York's Penn Station and Chicago's Stock Exchange-were majestic. Others-like a tiny bridge in rural Montana and a small farmstead torn down for Denver's International Airport-were modest. But they all reflected America's story before they were razed. Using haunting black-and-white images by the nation's top architectural photographers, the book presents a timely look at what we've lost.