Without their walls these Solvent Recovery Line buildings look like blast walls. Their concrete inner structures were part of the design so if there was an explosion inside it would ‘blow out’ with a puff instead of a bang. Now most of these are demolished or overgrown.
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There were three main stockhouses, two of which still exist, that are filled with tanks like these in addition to Fermentation. Each tank is the size of the city bus and few are left after the 2008-2009 scrapings.
Looking toward Sleeping Giant from the workhouse.
The sexiest feature of Kurth is this steel arch over the silos on its south side. The manholes in the floor open to the silos directly, and flimsy grates might catch a hurried worker. Grates were removable so that workers could descend into the concrete tubes, so a few are missing today.
A little cloud passes over the Five-Stack powerplant ruins, like a puff of smoke.
Rivets are sexy, and this old machine has more than a fair share.
The overgrown offices serve no one at this former Federal Elevator in Snowflake, MB.
Many outdoor areas of the plant have become unofficial city dumps. The skeleton doesn’t care.
The machine shop today.
Looking from one workhouse at another, with the other residents of Mill Hell falling into place as the distance grows. Across the rail yard you can see Froedert Malt elevator and Calumet.