Looking into the coke batteries in the extant oven… chunks of coke are still hanging from the inner walls, despite the exterior’s wrecking ball pummeling.
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Part of the grain drier system in ADM #1 crawls up the side of the building like a steel vine.
A window for light and air pokes above the big arch in the hallway. Most of the interior ceilings were broad brick archways.
Looking at Carrie from the place where the molten steel would be cast
Windows provided the 250-some workers with fresh air and light, and helped to keep flour dust from building up in the air, helping to prevent explosions. Today, machines control air flow better without windows, so they were bricked.
One of my favorite visual feature of grain elevators, especially big ones, is how they repeat.
My favorite shot of the 17-story Art Deco office tower attached to the train station.
Carvings on the back of a barracks building.
The working end of the blast furnace, where molten metal would flow like lava out of the furnace… a process called ‘tapping’.
Sarah below Cascade Park. This space was destroyed when the park flooded.