Religious Row

A me-sized hole in the half-demolished skyway looks about a story down to the ground. Step lightly. Arista 100.

This tree caught my eye. Note the bench swing near it. Portra 160.

This is an elevator to move mine car loads of sand to the surface for cleaning and eventually glass production. Below is a flooded equipment vault. In front and behind is a loop through the larger tunnels in the mine. The horizontal braces supported electric cables for the mine carts.

In a strange loft next to the brewhouse are these twin kettles, which seem much older than the main kettles in the brewhouse.

The portal facing Taconite Harbor (at a healthy distance) is mostly closed. Some kids put bullet holes in it. Shooting down a long tunnel is extremely dangerous, and you should not do it, obviously. Mamiya 6/Portra 160

The top three floors were removed from the top of the Temple Opera Block (right). If you have a sharp eye, you can see the outlines of some of the old floors on the shared wall of the Orpheum (left). For a time, the front of the building held a bus stop.

I really like the way this high-ceilinged room is decaying. Well, decayed. It’s demolished now.

The blacksmith shop is pretty rugged looking. Through the door you can see the collapsed walkway that might have once connected to a building covering the Santiago Tunnel adit.

Miners would sit in this room before going into the mine. The boards on the right indicated whether every single miner was “in” or “out”.