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Eric Allix Rogers
June 26, 2018
![Gary State Bank Building [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]](http://chicagopatterns.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ericallixrogers-gary-2-900x653.jpg)
Gary State Bank Building [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]
Lace up your closed-toed shoes and get ready for the second Gary Preservation Tour! After a
successful crowdfunding campaign, the event will take place on two dates this year:
this coming Saturday, June 30th (your editor humbly apologizes for the short notice) and again on
Saturday, July 14th.
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Eric Allix Rogers
March 5, 2018
![Gary Union Station [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]](http://chicagopatterns.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ericallixrogers-garytour2017-8-900x514.jpg)
Gary Union Station [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]
After a successful debut in 2017, the
effort to crowdfund a 2018 Gary Preservation Tour has begun. Organizers intend to repeat open house-style access to a number of downtown Gary’s most notable buildings, while also expanding tours into two of the city’s distinctive residential neighborhoods, Horace Mann and Morningside.
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Eric Allix Rogers
May 24, 2017

City Methodist Church (Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns)
Mark your calendar for June 17! You’ll want to be in Gary, Indiana for the first-ever Gary Preservation Tour Open House. After beating their crowdfunding goal by 20%, the organizers have been hard at work lining up sites to open to the public from 10am to 4pm.
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Eric Allix Rogers
March 6, 2017
![City Methodist Church [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]](http://chicagopatterns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ericallixrogers-gary-27.jpg)
City Methodist Church [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]
Like so many Chicagoans, I’m guilty of being a disaster tourist in Gary. The allure of its picturesque ruins beckons to many a photographer.
![US Steel [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]](http://chicagopatterns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ericallixrogers-gary-21.jpg)
US Steel [Eric Allix Rogers/Chicago Patterns]
The “City of the Century” is a shadow of the industrial powerhouse that it once was, with a fraction of its peak population. The mighty steel works around which it was built soldier on, but the era of mass industrial employment has long since passed. What becomes of a company town when the company no longer needs it?
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