Dump Two

The former BESCO building in the last light of day.

Squinting from the top floor through the skyway, one can feel small, like they’re in a heavy industrial dollhouse.

This is one of the biggest warps I’ve ever found in a wooden factory floor hasn’t broken yet. When you stand on it, it make a very loud popping sound as the boards shift. The poster on the pillar near the left side of the frame advertises recreational boating, presumably to the factory workers who left this floor in the early 1980s.

A multi-family home with an attic bedroom. The staircase was unstable, to say the least.

This building was responsible for storing and drying the barrels. Compare right.

A 180-degree panorama of the first floor of the refectory. I just loved the colors; there’s something about plaster walls that retain the character of a building; they crumble when they die, which is much more graceful than drywall, which drips down into a stinking puddle that looks and smells like a blob of Elmer’s glue.

The offices, cleared out pending fire inspection. Now it’s full of stuff again.

This rockhouse was added below the shaft to load Gilpin Tram cars.

For 20 years, this served as the public library. According to blogger, this has been moved to Springer.