Showering red-hot coke fresh from the furnaces near the Coal Tower (in the back) was the Quenching Tower’s duty (front).
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After demolition in the mid 2000s, this interior door became exterior. I remember walking through the car shed as a teenager. It was a shortcut, if I didn’t get caught.
The stage had seen some water damage, but it can (and should) be brought back!
Where the drain changes shape from round concrete to arched brick.
Transfer Elevator, Built 1916
This is a great example of a combination rock house; the silos below used to fill trains with ore dropped from mine cars pulled to the top of the structure.
…a little close for comfort.
2013. A perfect summer day meets a beautiful old roundhouse on the edge of town.
On the left are rows of dayrooms; on the right is one of two long hallways which connect the two halves of the hospital. The large, center section of the hallway would fit chairs for patients to look out on the gardens. They called it a conservatory. This hallway would be as close as some patients would get to nature.
Birch shadows on stone walls… have you been looking at my Christmas list?