Expanding foam provides some textural contrast to the wood floors, worn smooth over a century. This building dates to the 1890s and was built as the coffin plant.
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A crack in a window in a wall. What’s this doing here?
A storage vault for guns and other weapons to protect the base from attack.
To run new gutters through the building, some of the plaster walls of the Chateau had to be smashed through.
Gloves hang in the basement of the former quality assurance labs.
Perhaps this office was for a film studio or music producer.
Note the severed skyway–that led to a set of grain elevators that have since been demolished.
Beds line a basement room that is part way between the concepts of inside and outside. Boards and bricks were falling while I was photographing it—stay out.
It’s a straight view from the projection booth to the stage, but hell of a walk. At a fast pace, I think it would take 10 minutes to walk from this spot to the chair. Behind the curtains is a big white screen, so the theatre could be used for either stagework or moving pictures. The two projectors are set up for 3D movies right now–hence the little switch below the window–a Polaroid 3D synchronizer. Cool, huh?
This is what it might have looked like if a new Ford descended in the elevator with its headlights on. As seen from the Mississippi side–the opposite portal faces the sand mine.