Forgotten Fountain at Lost Michigan Mall is Equally Nostalgic and Futuristic
From the time when the culture of a city revolved around its mall, the shopping centers strove to provide patrons with a unique and memorable experience.
Like so many malls in cities large and small around America, that was the experience at the Adrian Mall in the small southeastern Michigan city of Adrian.
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Today the mall sits largely vacant and a once centerpiece fountain nearly forgotten.
The exterior of the mall today and its expansive largely empty lot belies the hay day of earlier decades. Check out this bit of nostalgia shared recently on Reddit:
Many remembered the fountain and, bizarrely, a controversy around it:
I remember the local churches complaining it was satanic. Just a fountain folks.
The corkscrew design certainly looks more Metropolis than Adrian.
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In 2024 an urban explorer shared images on Facebook of the interior of the mall. Floors torn up, shops gone and hallways gutted, the mall's fountain just a memory.
Soon the mall itself will be a memory. The property's owners have a June 2025 deadline to demolish much of the structure.
While the interior of the mall will be lost to history, there are active businesses clinging to the property but not connecting in the way an internal facing mall would. Stores like Dunham Sports, Hobby Lobby, Ollie's Bargain Outlet and a Buffalo Wild Wings still call the Adrian Mall footprint home.
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Gallery Credit: Madison Troyer
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