While the building looks uniform on the outside, inside it’s clearly divided between a hoist room and shaft room (seen here).
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Allouez had already suffered one major fire. It didn’t need another–especially under Dock 1’s wooden approach.
In front of a rust-welded Illinois rotary stoker is where the boiler-men made their mark. The last year I can make out is 1985.
This tree caught my eye. Note the bench swing near it. Portra 160.
Two versions of Detroit. One where buildings stand tall and proud, and one where they wilt under the sun. It’s an amazing juxtaposition.
This was my first view of Harris Machinery’s property… it was strange to find what looked like a ghost town five minutes from downtown Minneapolis!
The clock, which was sold after Amtrak dumped the building, was returned to the Waiting Room in 2005.
William Duncan built this house for his family in 1879. It has become one of the most popular structures in the ghost town of Animas Forks.
The primitive chair caught the falling plaster.
This is one of the biggest warps I’ve ever found in a wooden factory floor hasn’t broken yet. When you stand on it, it make a very loud popping sound as the boards shift. The poster on the pillar near the left side of the frame advertises recreational boating, presumably to the factory workers who left this floor in the early 1980s.