Jerome, AZ

Photos from my retro photo album titled: Jerome, October 2007.

Jerome, Arizona, is a captivating place, a photographer’s playground. Abandoned homes cling to the hills, and staircases lead to nowhere. Copper put Jerome on the map, and the removal of that copper wiped Jerome off it.

Pictured is a former bank, or maybe it was a hotel? I don’t remember anymore, but I still find the images of the roofless ruins attractive.

For decades, Jerome was home to artists and other poor souls, but the ghost town has since been gentrified and rendered expensive. I took the above photo of this derelict house that was morphing back into nature when it was standing as a romantic ruin. It has since been purchased and restored and is now appraised to be worth a half a million dollars.

A lot of words have been spilled about this place, and my favorite one by far is Empty Mansions.

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