Fancy Trim

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

Paperwork litters the floors of the zinc mine offices.

Since this picture was taken, the roof has totally collapsed in this area.

Sunset came fast, and when the good light died inside the Industrial Loft, I walked around the back to find the whole complex glowing.

This ornamental stair is cast iron and used to connect all floors of the Administration building. Now it connects the first and second floor, then the third and fourth floors, with a strange cinder block and drywall barrier separating the new and old sections of the building. Note the insulation on the floor to seal heat into the lower floors that were used as offices until the hospital closed. On the corners of the staircase are lions, on the corners of the suspended section of stair are down-hanging pineapples. Set in the stairs themselves are shield motifs with slate tops.

Even without the kettles the Hamm’s brewhouse is beautifully lit, ornamented architecturally and begging for photographers to remember it.

Looking up to the second floor of the Nitrating House, where cotton would be soaked in nitric acid. These brought cotton into the building.

To get more light into the wards, the building was narrow and had angular rooms, often staff space, perpendicular to the main hallway.

A broken scale in Isabella A, next to an old wood stove.