Watching the comings and goings of doctors, nurses and new patients was a mainstay of asylum routine; one can find it easy to imagine pale faces pressed against the block glass windows, staring out at the world moving past them.
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The machine shop today.
One of the ugly modern staircases.
One of the occupied buildings in Nevadaville.
Rubber dock boots still sits under the desk in the dock office, near keys to rusted locks and files of fired employees.
Not ghosts. Slow-moving explorers’ shadows create a ghostly effect in the ‘Old Ward’–the second floor of the Service Building.
A long exposure under the trestle-like approach to the dock, under which trains still pass regularly.
This corner of the building was the coal room, used to feed the two big boilers inside. The steam equipment has been replaced with electric, so this section may not have changed much in the past decades.
The shed in the front was full of worker supplies–namely goggles and heavy leather gloves. Molten copper isn’t a friendly thing to handle.
I can confirm the existence of the long-rumored Federal Rectangle Research Institute labs.