Door 8

This miner locker room has probably never been so clean.

An original stencil-brushed sign.

I am not sure, but I think this section was a storehouse; it has two ramps that connect the rail yard outside and the blacksmith shop. On all of the historic doors that face that part of the yard, signs caution workers to look out for cars…

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.

An arrangement of brick graffiti on the old boiler house building near the railroad tracks.

Note the tiled floor between the bucket conveyors and an old mill.

A switchboard to control the flow of electricity into the plant from the city and generators.

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.

The city constructed a wall in the early 2000s to discourage visitors. Note the staircase is cut off, too.