USASA Vint Hill Farms Station, Warrenton, VA - 1990

[LOPEZBUNCH]

Does anyone know why it was abandoned?

[AlanHemenway]

@LOPEZBUNCH A lot of military instalation were closed during the BRAC - branch realignment. The installations were turned over various entities for transition into other uses. However, these types of facilities do not usually fit conventional uses of real estate. Maybe the barracks would make a good prison, mental hospital, or college dormatory. But then you would have to build the rest of the college. They did a college with a tiny portion of Fort Ord. Fort Devens is a success story.

[loncray]

There's a housing development in the antenna field now. And the old main barracks building - heck, all the barracks buildings - are completely trashed inside.

[AlanHemenway]

@loncray I did a complete video on June 28th which I will edit and upload in about a month. The trashing of the barracks inside was unbelievable!!! These buildings would have been salvageable because they were still structurally sound. There are modern high tech industrial buildings on the antenna field. I got into "The Barn".

[AlanHemenway]

I will return here June 28, 2011, to get an up-to-date video of all the changes to Vint Hill.