The machine shop today.
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This is what the complex looks like today to the bare eye. Dull, monochrome, quiet.
During the Cold War, the Air Force used the radar station to train bombardiers in radar-guided ordinance.
A bathroom in the rear of the ballroom that overlooks the Rose Garden.
Frontenac’s shaft house is well preserved, compared to all other around it. Leica/Summilux 35/Ektar 100
A street side exposure of the original 1914 section of the orphanage. Turned into black and white to deemphasize all the graffiti across the front steps.
A hydraulic ‘bridge’ couple lower onto the tracks to bring mine cars into the shaft house, presumably for repair. I haven’t found this system anywhere else, but it makes a lot of sense.
Hales & Hunter sign, as it looks today.
The barracks are being reclaimed by nature.
Some of the internal staircases were fitted with cages that wound round down the stairs to deter suicidal patients from taking a dive.