These racks lined many of the floors, although I couldn’t decipher their purpose. Tastes like duotone…
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It was a strange choice, although I appreciate it, for the firm reusing the shops to brick up the doorways while leaving the doors.
Hunter and the Hoist House.
A little sun and a little moisture sprouted this grass in the middle of the steel silos, in the midst of Minneapolis’ “graffiti graveyard”. Two images of time: nature growing through industry and rust dissolving old art in the elements.
A portrait of the second school of McConnell, built in 1937.
Heavy industrial looks good in cotton candy pink.
Pocket door and light switches in the upper control room, at the top of the spiral staircase.
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.
The sluice room was surrounded in fine grating. The company would want to finely control when the doors would be opened so the gold could be removed under supervision. No yellow bonus for the working man…
Sugar mills have endless numbers of pipes, washers, seals, and flanges to connect all of the equipment. This is where the spare parts were all stored by size and rating.