from Visit New England:

“Visitors to Chesterfield Gorge will enjoy a half-mile trail along cliff tops that offer views of the seventy-foot-high walls of the gorge, the Westfield River, and the surrounding forest, home to bears, bobcats, and turkeys. Stone abutments of a ca.1770 bridge that spanned the river are all that remain of former post road between Boston and Albany, NY. During the Revolutionary War, redcoats marched over this bridge toward Boston following their defeat at Saratoga, NY.”

Next time I go back there, I’m just going to have to cross the river and look for the rest of the bridge.

Dude, I spent two days last week looking at blueprints and city ordinances dealing with a building built in 1887. Even the fire department inspection sheet had the same font as a wanted poster.

And you know there’s a theory in architecture where you build with the idea in mind of what sort of ruin your structure will leave behind? It’s called “Ruin Value”.