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The BOMARC launch buildings are spaced on a large concrete pad that looks like a parking lot. Out of view are underground pipes for fueling and cooling the rocket motors.

One of two projectors, still set to run old 3D flicks.

This section retains water and is mostly shaded, so moss has found a way to live in the concrete.

On the boarded-up first floor of the house proper near the door to the chapel, the last pew sites next to a wet box of Bibles.

A simple porcelain fountain in the original brewhouse. The water fountain, no doubt, is not original.

From the slip where grain boats would tie for loading and unloading, the unloader juts in a modernist-architectural way that is oddly visibly satisfying. Inside that white building is the retracted boat unloader, more or less a long and sturdy conveyor attached to a joint and crane motor. There used to be four loaders that looked like simple tubes with cranes and ropes attached hanging from this side of the elevator. All that remains of those is one fixture on the white building (not visible here) and the frame of one on the elevator proper, visible in the upper-middle of this image, to the right of the unloader apparatus.

Looking into one of the fire slides, designed to evacuate patients extremely quickly. In 1880, a fire completely destroyed the asylum at St. Peter, Minnesota, killing 30 patients.

When the building switched souls from booze to bread, these contraptions were mounted across the brewhouse floors… they’re not for hops, either.

An abandoned news stand between the concourse and ticket booths. This is one of my favorite pictures from the 2000s.