Front Door

The pilot house, lit with the lights of Superior.

Fall in line, act skinny, watch out for low hanging pipes. Don’t ask me where in the maze this was… 90% of the plant looked like this; vast rooms and catwalks with crisscrossing pipes and valves.

Here, the concentrated gold (and silver, and zinc, I would guess) would be loaded into trucks bound for the smelter.

Almost all of the doors and windows on the ground floor have been boarded, leaving the ground level very dark.

The elevator tower seems to have been built with expansion of the dock in mind.

The roof was in bad shape, but too beautiful to avoid. This is the spot were I used to study medieval Latin.

The spiral staircase ends in the basement, where two oil tanks (for the lantern) and a freshwater tank (for the Keeper) were stored. The basement consists of two long arched vaults like this.

A washout two thirds of the way down the tram gave me a place to relax in the thin air.

Next to the generator room is the pump room, which moved steam around the complex.