The phrase "abandoned except for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is left alone or deserted, with the exception of one or more specific elements that remain.
Example: "The old house was abandoned except for a few pieces of furniture that were left behind."
Alternatives: "deserted apart from" or "forsaken save for".
Some of these sites seem all but abandoned, except for the links.
At 152 East 110th Street, a four-story building was abandoned except for a Dolce Vita pizzeria.
In 847 an earthquake partly buried the building, and it was largely abandoned except for occasional curiosity seekers, worshipers and stone salvagers sneaking in.
"When that strip was abandoned, except for maybe the rats, he saw those gates as a place to create beauty," said Bill Perkins, a state senator from Harlem.
Out of the blue, for instance, the director spins an exuberant fantasy of a futuristic Chicago that is completely abandoned except for a few Buddhist monks.
The problem is that the building looks abandoned, except for some stores on the ground level and an underground parking operation.
Juno -- the too-cool-for-school, smart but confused teenager whose own biological mother essentially abandoned her except for the cacti she inexplicably mails to her daughter every Valentine's Day - does not turn out to be the singularly most intriguing character.
When the Arabs captured Mombasa in 1698, all these settlements were abandoned, and (except for a brief Portuguese reoccupation in 1728) Zanzibar and Pemba came under the domination of the Arab rulers of Oman.
Olivares told VICE that their extended family abandoned them, except for her grandmother on Henry's side of the family, whose only impediment for taking care of them was location.
All the abandoned wells except for one (94%) contained more than 1 μg/L of glyphosate where as among the serving wells only 31% contained glyphosate above the 1 μg/L level.
The place has been abandoned for years, except for use as a bicycle-rental spot.
