Livingston bucks trend as grain elevators fall across Montana

[HassleCat]

1. The sadness of doomed buildings

I hate to see old buildings left to deteriorate. My first instinct is to buy the structure and fix it up. (I actually did this with two houses.) The grain elevators are remarkable because they stand above the surrounding land in a dramatic way. Of course, there is no care or maintenance, so they will eventually have to be knocked down. It's too bad when you think of all the effort it took to build them in the first place, in the days when most of the work was done by carpenters with hand tools.