ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 9月6日 01時49分

The @deptvetaffairs has 430 vacant buildings, including 200 that are more than 90 years old. There’s no easy makeover, and few obvious buyers, for Victorian tuberculosis wards, World War I shell shock asylums, New Deal libraries and Cold War bowling alleys. Paying for upkeep is hard to justify at a time of soaring patient demand. But so is paying for demolition. So hundreds of buildings stand preserved in a bureaucratic amber of indecision. The secretary of Veterans Affairs recently announced a push to get rid of the buildings within 2 years. But the story of Ward Memorial Hall — this veterans theater in Milwaukee, photographed by @davidkasnic — shows that it won’t be easy. The 136-year-old theater has been closed since the 1980s. Tangles of old film and manila rope haunt the area beneath the stage. The 800 wooden seats wait under a thick layer of dust. Over the decades, repeated efforts to revive the theater failed. “Who wants an old theater in the middle of a V.A. campus?” said Paul Macpherson, who oversees leasing of unused buildings for the department. Visit the link in our profile to read more, and to see more photos.

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