Abandoned - Color or B&W?

The past few weeks I've photographed several new buildings for the Abandoned project. This weekend I was processing the newest shots and I ran into a bit of a mental stumbling block. I'm torn between whether to keep the images in color or convert them to black and white.

As a photographer, I've always loved black & white images. To me, they just feel more like art. But viewing these photographs in color, I realized that the color images sometimes do more to tell the story of the buildings. I'm almost leaning toward keeping everything in color. I guess it's really not a big deal at this point in the process, as I keep the originals of every shot, but I always tend to get caught up in the minutia. I'm posting this set in color to show some variety. I have also realized that I really, really hate stray power lines that are impossible to shoot around.

Anyway, here are a bunch of shots from the past couple weeks. Leave me a comment and let me know whether you prefer color or black & white.

The house in the last shot was especially interesting to me. I remember the house from years ago. We used to see it from the highway when we took my grandmother to the shopping mall in Lavale, Maryland. From the road, you could clearly see that it was abandoned but it was in pretty good condition. The windows were intact and I would always see cats sitting by them, soaking up the sun. I sort of imaged the house to be a feline version of Watership Down and assumed there must have been dozens of cats roaming around inside the giant, old house. When I went to photograph it, it had been years since I passed by. I was sad to see the house is now, quite literally, falling down. It was a beautiful building. And I wonder where all the cats have gone...