Magic Bookshelf

I wanted to see the third floor to get a better view, but the third floor had already been demolished. The old walls had cascaded down the staircases. This building is gone, now, as you can expect.

In the back of the warehouse is the old incinerator, probably used to destroy kegs that could not be reused.

Beds line a basement room that is part way between the concepts of inside and outside. Boards and bricks were falling while I was photographing it—stay out.

A fallen branch smashed out this skylight years ago, and since then the bees have found this tiny toilet a perfect home. This is part of the hotel where employees slept.

We know what the ladies’ favorite treats were! Found holding parts on a repair cart.

The only way to get to the second floor–since demolition crews punched-out the staircases and ladders leading upwards–was to climb this elevator shaft. In the lower-left corner is a blower for the foundry furnaces.

In this section of the Men’s Ward, sealed by brick from lower floors, the room doors had messages painted in their inside–some motivational, some not. I would be interested to hear if anyone knows the backstory of this section. Lighting is natural; it was just after sunset.

Inside the main entrance is a whiteboard and mirror, then it branches into discrete spaces.

Generations of Two Harbors teens smoked their first weed in this abandoned building, in my estimation. Comment if I’m right!