Outbuildings

In the nitrating house.

This building was an office and lounge for engineers. It is also demolished.

A truck loading dock for raw materials. Looking at the concrete, you can sort of tell where the rails used to run.

A stencil instructs the first and third shifts to ask security for access. Security was out during all my visits, except one mishap where a strung-out local chased me with a truck. Having spent a decade exploring the U.P., I was not caught off guard.

As my friend Jonathan would say, “on a human scale.”

Officers got houses and the honor of living near other officers. They call it Officer’s Row.

While the stokers are gone, the pipes bringing pulverized coal down were left.

Raab