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At what point does a house become a home? Is it simply when we familiarize ourselves with it? Perhaps it's more profound than that.
In truth, a house becomes a home when we entrust it with enough memories that it knows us as well as we know it. However, this begs another question: After everyone leaves, and a house no longer has someone to watch over it, does it cease being a home? This question is not so easily answered. Unless, of course, you've personally spent time in an old house, especially one that knew generations of families. If you have, then you know the answer: Once a house becomes a home, it never forgets.
This book exists to serve as a celebration and memorial to beautiful, abandoned homes from the Northeastern United States. Some are grand in scope and scale, others intimate and personal, but all are reflections of the families which they once held dear.
Rusty Tagliareni and Christina Mathews have been documenting abandoned historical properties throughout the United States for well over a decade. In 2009, they launched their website www.AntiquityEchoes.com, dedicated to archiving the locations they've filmed and generating public awareness about the plight befalling these beautiful and often significant buildings. Rusty and Christina are award winning best-selling authors, with work featured on many media outlets such as 60 Minutes and The New York Times. Prior to its dissolution, Rusty and Christina were heavily involved with the Preserve Greystone movement. They are trustees of PreservationWorks, a national nonprofit which advocated for the preservation and adaptive reuse of our country's last remaining Kirkbride-plan psychiatric institutions. Rusty and Christina are also regular contributors to Weird NJ magazine, a publication based out of New Jersey which celebrates the unusual histories and roads less traveled of the Garden State.
