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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A bunk room, minus the bunks.
An insurance office.
The pits have long since been filled so the roundhouse could be used for storage.
Between the repair shops and the stock department is this odd little structure. No, the walls are not level–it’s not your eyes. The shops slope left, the structure slopes right.
The license plate reads “Farm Truck”.
A heavy steel rail door to help funnel explosions upward, rather than outward.
The incinerator’s hardened steel door… useless, but still sexy in a heavy-industrial kind of way.
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.
Gaskets still organized on nails beside the power plant. This used to be a maintenance room, but since its roof and walls were torn down, it’s not any kind of room.