A Rubble-Strewn Stairwell Inside Hope Haven

Taken August 2018

Deteriorating wooden staircase with crumbling debris inside an abandoned building in New Orleans.
Deteriorating wooden staircase with crumbling debris inside an abandoned building in New Orleans.

Hope Haven is a former orphanage and vocational school in Marrero, Louisiana, built by the Catholic Diocese in the 1920s and closed by the late twentieth century. Plaster and wood debris cover the stairs inside one of its abandoned buildings, with peeling paint exposing the brick beneath.

Taken August 2018

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