Former US military base turned into a ‘graffiti park’ 100 years after closing
A former US military base has become a brightly coloured 'graffiti park' after being closed down at the end of World War One.
Fort Armistead in Maryland was constructed between 1885 and 1905 as part of the Endicott programme and was named after Major George Armistead, the commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
It was made up of four gun batteries, all named after revolutionary war heroes, that featured 12-inch M1888 disappearing guns.
But once the US joined World War One, the base's weapons were sent overseas and the majority were never brought back, leading it to be closed down in 1920.
It was temporarily taken over by the US Navy for use as an ammunition storage site during the Second World War before a four-gun 90 mm anti-aircraft battery was stationed on the property between 1952-54.
It wasn't until 1975 that the military base was converted into a public park and the history has been covered by brightly coloured graffiti art.
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The building work has also not been well maintained as debris has fallen onto the ground which has now blocked off the gates since the interior was completely gutted.
The vandalism includes people's names, street tags and an artist's depiction of a large bright orange alien with one eye.
The news comes after a Russian urban explorer has exposed the inside of an abandoned research building that was once used by the Russian Armed Forces but has since been left covered in graffiti.
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Nekolesnik posted a series of images on Instagram that showed rotting walls and strange graffiti left in the dilapidated former Centre of Missile Forces and Artillery, which closed in 2011.
The stairs are covered in paint from peeling along the walls and windows have been collapsed into the tower in St Petersburg.
In January, another explorer has uncovered a collection of military vehicles believed to have been used during the Cold War by the British military.
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Posting a collection of images from an undisclosed location, the explorer, known as 'Outwiththebutler', fascinated fans with the vast collection of planes and vans that have been left to rust in the drizzly British weather for decades.
The pictures show a number of fighter squadron planes in the middle of a muddy field.
The paint has faded but the unmistakable aircraft insignia of the Royal Air Force can still be seen on the side, leading one fan to speculate that they were a series of 'Cold War veteran aircrafts.'
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The fan commented with the artist's impression of what the English Electric Lightning, Hawker Hunter and Gloster Javelin would have looked like during the 1960s, the 1970s and into the late 1980s.
The time period is widely known as the Cold War, the 42-year long stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union.
English Electric Lightning remains the only UK-designed-and-built fighter capable of travelling at twice the speed of sound.
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