An abandoned gatehouse bearing the name of the former factory.
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Lockers for the boiler room workers.
The Western Elevator’s old moniker looks over Fort William (the neighborhood). Snow falls over Mount McKay in the background. This elevator is still active… the only active elevator in Fort William proper.
Looking across at the Cargill elevator.
Not ghosts. Slow-moving explorers’ shadows create a ghostly effect in the ‘Old Ward’–the second floor of the Service Building.
In this section of the Men’s Ward, sealed by brick from lower floors, the room doors had messages painted in their inside–some motivational, some not. I would be interested to hear if anyone knows the backstory of this section. Lighting is natural; it was just after sunset.
“The fresh snow mixed indistinguishably from the ashes of the half-demolished power plant.”
The common rooms bulge out of the institutional geometry of the wards.
I never knew that all those elementary school balance bar exercises were for a very serious purpose: not falling to one’s death in the event they uncover lost Chicago history.
One of the paper warehouses, with snow blowing across the floors.