Here are two more photograph from the abandoned brick church at the corner of Hoagland Road and Clayton Road. The first one is the little door in the steeple tower, and the second is the garage door in the new addition that was added to the right side of the church later.
The light changed rapidly between sunny and cloudy. Finally it rained right after I finished photographing.
A couple months ago I decided to drive to the small town of Monroeville in southeast Allen County, just to check the town out because I had never been there before. I discovered two places I wanted to photograph that day, but had to wait on both. The first was the building in Monroeville with the American flag painted on it, shown in my last post. The other was an old abandoned brick church on Hoagland Road about halfway between the towns of Hoagland and Monroeville. I didn’t photograph it the day I discovered it because the light was not what I wanted.
On Easter Sunday I returned to Monroeville to see if I could photograph the building with the flag, and I passed the church. The light was perfect, and alternated between sunny and cloudy as the clouds moved in the sky. I made several photographs of it, and I have two of them online now. The others will follow in a few days.
The building looks like its been converted by the farmer who owns the land into a barn or garage. I’ve seen several old schoolhouses that have sufferd that fate here in Indiana, but never a church. The right half of the building was added later and looks like a typical workshop or garage building fused to a traditional rural church.
Although I have lived most of my life in Allen County, I had never been to the small town of Monroeville, located in the southeast part of the county. A couple months ago I drove out there to see what the town looked like, and I found this building. I wasn’t able to photograph it at that time because a car was parked on the street in front of it. I returned on Easter sunday and made this photograph. I plan to return to Monroeville soon to photograph more of the town.
This old building, with its patrotic message, is located on State Road 101 in the center of Monroeville.
This old building in the tiny town of Hoagland, Indiana houses the Hoagland Hardware and Farm Implements store. The side of the whitewashed brick building still has the remnants of an old advertisement for the store painted on the side of the building, and a door to nowhere.
This is one of my photographs from New Mexico. I have many more photographs from my nearly two years in Santa Fe waiting to be put online. I believe that I have around 50 rolls of film that I have processed but not yet printed from New Mexico. Those will be slowly appearing here over the next year or so alongside new work that I am producing here in Indiana.
This is a snapshot I made of my girlfriend, Catrina Kleven, while we sat at the IHOP restaurant in Fort Wayne waiting for lunch to arrive. Isn’t she beautiful?
Cat is becoming a talented photographer herself. You can see some of her work, including pictures she took of me, on her page.
Another of the beautiful foggy landscape photographs that I made on February 5. This is on Branstrator Road just north of South County Line Road in southwest Allen County, Indiana.
See the rest of my Forgotten Indiana Project
My girlfriend, Catrina Kleven, took some nice portraits of me a couple weeks ago and we finally have them scanned and online. I don’t usually look good in photos, but these are very good.
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