Belcher Stage

The smokestack for the sintering plant included a big blower room, to launch the fumes into the atmosphere and away from the town. What could go wrong?

Tarpaper telling time- Wood wittling weather- Rust rot ruins.

The Osborn Block (front) and the Twohy (rear) at sunset. In the distance, you can almost make out Globe Elevators. One of my favorite photos of 2013.

The beacon was installed in 1938 and removed in the mid-2000s.

A volcano (?) under a window.

In its later years, metal was welded over every door and window on the ground floor.

Serve [unknown] Build… What do you think the middle says? Tell me in the comments.

A circular common room in one of the original parts of the hospital. When the asylum was especially crowded, this would be filled with patient beds, too. It’s very strange that this floor was not tiled like the other common rooms. It makes me wonder if especially dangerous patients were kept in this ward; those who could not be trusted to not extract and sharpen the ceramic tiles. Portra 160.

The sun was setting outside, highlighting the textures and lines that made the form of the power plant take a fourth dimension–time.