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This is a list of cultural-heritage sites that have been damaged or destroyed accidentally, deliberately, or by a natural disaster, sorted by state. Only those buildings and structures which fulfill Wikipedia's standards of notability should be included. The simplest test of this is whether the building or structure has its own article page.
Many historical buildings were demolished to construct the Centrul Civic in Bucharest. Many old towns of different cities were destroyed partially or completely because of communist urban planning. Old towns of cities like Bacău, Bârlad, Câmpina, Galați, Orșova, Pitești, Ploiești, Râmnicu Vâlcea, and Suceava were completely demolished.
Building 0 casualties, building destroyed 2021 Rucheng residential building collapse Rucheng County, Hunan, China Residential building 5 dead, 7 injured [60] 2021 Champlain Towers South: Surfside, Florida, United States: Condominium tower 98 dead, 11 injured [61] 2021 Sangam Bridge Arunachal Pradesh, India: Bridge 3 missing 2021
Will Rogers’ home: The actor’s ranch house, part of Will Rogers State Historic Park, was destroyed in the Palisades fire. In the 1920s Rogers built a 31-room residence with 11 bathrooms, a ...
During the American Civil War, Union troops destroyed most buildings on the University of Alabama campus, including its library of approximately 7,000 volumes. [41] Mosque-Library Turnovo, Bulgaria Ottoman Empire 1877 Christian Bulgarians Turkish books in a library were destroyed when the mosque was burned. [42] Royal library of the Kings of Burma
Demolished school buildings and structures in the United States (1 C, 15 P) Demolished shopping malls in the United States (215 P) Demolished sports venues in the United States (1 C, 38 P)
Rectifying a shameful history by erasing it. Wakestone was the mansion built in Raleigh for Josephus Daniels in the early 1920s as he was nearing the end of his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
Remainder of bridge extensively repaired and retrofitted. Triaxial welds were drilled and most cross bracing members were removed. Many other similar bridges around the world were also modified in this way as a result of this failure. Hintze Ribeiro Bridge: Entre-os-Rios, Castelo de Paiva: Portugal: 4 March 2001: Masonry and steel bridge built ...