Miners would sit in this room before going into the mine. The boards on the right indicated whether every single miner was “in” or “out”.
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The new steel door of the diesel car shops, built in 1948 and used through the 1960s, as seen from the service pit. On the top of the photograph you can see the exhaust vent.
The side of the oldest building on the property, the former casket factory.
The first floor hallway between conference rooms and the diesel lab at the center of the facility
Gary Methodist was a filmset for Transformers 3 in 2010.
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.
A chalkboard halfway to the headhouse is untouched since the mill closed. It still has the cheat sheets!
When boiling beet juice accidentally spills from the gas-fired tanks two feet away, you better be wearing some of these, or bye-bye legs.
A facade that tells the story of demolition and neglect. The sign on the garage door indicates that if one finds themselves there, that they enter the buildings at their own risk. If only property owners in the US took this philosophy!
A Kiva is an underground, or partly underground, chamber for ceremonies.