Abandoned Shit Weekly Contest, №.2 - "Homes" - The Winners!

Dukes and Duchesses of the Deserted!

My Thoughts:
My god.... once again, there were so, SO many fantastic entries to the second ever Abandoned Shit Weekly Contest. This contest is definitely bringing the type of awesome contest to Steemit that I was hoping it would, but I really had NO idea that judging would be so difficult. In fact, I'm going to start farming it out to some guest judges real soon. lol I think that would help the contest too. Get some other peoples choices and preferences to start winning some cash. Thank you to everyone that entered the ASW contest. If you didn't win, don't be discouraged. There's always next week! Now then, lets get to this week's winners:

1st Place Winner - 20 SBD: @creepycrazylife


^^^ It's almost hard to imagine how this entry COULDN'T take 1st place. Look at this old, abandoned mansion! It's pretty much the perfect example of cool abandoned shit. I also had to include the photo of the home's incredible spiral staircase. A lot of my judging is based on the amount I feel like I'd LOVE to check a place out, and this is a fat 100% in that department. It boggles my mind to think about how such an exquisite home could be left to rot. From the author: "People refer to it as "The Old Knox House", and "The Haunted Old Hickory." It was built by Franklin W. Knox, construction began in 1875 and ended in May of 1880." Be sure to check out the other photos of this gem, there are several of them: https://steemit.com/awcontest/@creepycrazylife/the-old-knox-house

2nd Place - 10 SBD: @shieha

^^^ It's one thing to see a cool, old building deteriorate... but it's another to see Mother Nature truly reclaim objects made by man. This place that @shieha found completely embodies that, hardcore. That tree growing up/through this old house is incredible. Yay for team nature! From the author: "This was shot inside an old house on the north coast of Taiwan, the previous owners must've been pretty well off since the house is much larger than the surrounding houses and has elements of western architecture incorporated into its design."
Link: https://steemit.com/photography/@shieha/tree-house-abandoned-shit-weekly-contest-entry

3rd Place - 5 SBD: @fivealive55

^^^ For the second week in a row, Steemian @fivealive55 lands on the scoreboard. Of the photos from this location, this one in particular really stuck with me. A once grande fireplace on one wall, and then no wall at all adjacent to it. An incredible location. I'd love to see this place in person. From the author: "This 68 unit apartment building was originally built in 1928 and its original purpose was to house upper level management staff from the nearby steel factories."
Be sure to check out their other photos from this spot here: https://steemit.com/aswcontest/@fivealive55/entry-for-abandoned-shit-weekly-contest-week-2

Bonus-For-Resteeming Winner - 5 SBD: @fishyculture <--- Picked by a random number generator, and after checking, they did, in fact, resteem the contest post. Thanks for helping out! Congratulations! Check out their entry too; they were born in the featured building

Honorable Mentions - 1 SBD each:

@bil.prag

"Castle "Bisingen" located in Vlajkovac, near Vrsac, in Serbia. It was build by earl Đerđ Močonji in 1859. In 1888 earl gave the castle as a gift for marriage of his daughter to famous Austro-Hungarian noble family Bisingen-Nipenburg."
https://steemit.com/aswcontest/@bil.prag/abandoned-shit-weekly-contest-2-homes

@tillygerbi

"This abandoned beauty is in the New Forest, Hampshire - UK. I wonder what the story is behind it - such a beautiful place to live?"
https://steemit.com/photography/@tillygerbi/hidden-cottage

@soyrosa

*"When the government decided this city should be closed down and cleaned up (in order to be able to expand the Antwerp harbor) the people of Doel didn't want to give up their homes..."
https://steemit.com/photography/@soyrosa/a-ghost-city-in-belgium-with-the-name-doel

@jogo

"The Austrian actor and movie director Willi Forst bought this house at the end of his career around 1960. He lived there until the death of his wife in 1973."
https://steemit.com/architecturalphotography/@jogo/ruinenvilla

@melinda010100

"When I saw this abandoned cabin from the highway while traveling in the American West, I was transported back to what it must have been like as a new settler to buy this piece of land in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming and choose this site for my cabin."
https://steemit.com/aswcontest/@melinda010100/abandoned-shit-weekly-contest-7f7d3e72cb5ee

FINAL THOUGHTS
Again, if you didn't win... don't be discouraged. There will be a lot of these contests with lots of different themes. There were quite a few imagines that were disqualified for not adhering to the rules. Many weren't a type of home/residential space. Several were submitted after deadline. Other's submitted many entries when only one is allowed. I hate to be a stickler, but I'd like to keep this as fair as I can.

Abandoned Shit Weekly Contest - №. 3 will be announced tomorrow (Tuesday) and look for the official contest post to see what the week's theme will be! I'm so excited and I hope you all join in, once again! Now, I'm off to distribute payouts!