Chopped

Easier-to-demolish parts of the power plant were torched apart. Catwalks to nowhere meant lots of dead ends.

Death. About two seconds after the explosives were triggered.

The second floor was hit by arson years ago, but it still carries the telltale features of its original design, specifically the woodwork below the roof.

There big filters helped the mill sort through the flour, for additional milling, for example.

Now, to add a human scale.

Hard to find your seat when it doesn’t know its own name.

This was my first view of Harris Machinery’s property… it was strange to find what looked like a ghost town five minutes from downtown Minneapolis!

The depot at the head of town seems to be being disassembled. Behind it is a dead signal where the tracks used to be; they’ve been pulled.

2011. Harris Machinery as seen from the roof of ADM-Delmar Elevator #4.