Thanks to the demolition (I’ll never say that again), the inner structure of the bins are revealed. So much wood!
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Modern ruins of the Gilman-Belden tram…
Here, you can see the edge of the foundation of the 19th century roundhouse.
While the last of the Studebaker production buildings were being demolished, I visited again. Here’s a shot taken shortly after the demolition crew left for the day.
A big door into the fire pump room.
Allouez had already suffered one major fire. It didn’t need another–especially under Dock 1’s wooden approach.
It seems logical that, at one time, a rock crusher was installed at the base of the mine rails shown here at the top of the Concentrator. Rocks small enough to fit between the rails would automatically bypass the crusher and continue to the work floor via the hopper below.
The bits with handles are the filters with screens of different sizes. Larger grain particles would be stopped at the top for further reduction via the mills, while the powder at the bottom would be run through another bolter–one of the refinement stages in flour production.
All electrical rooms were surrounded by walls, for obvious reasons. Now all the walls are gone, for reasons less obvious.
To run new gutters through the building, some of the plaster walls of the Chateau had to be smashed through.