The the left, the nitrating line in War City. To the right, War City’s sole suburb, Charlestown, IN.
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Installed in 1904 at the center of the plant, this is one of two batteries of boilers. Being in Oshkosh, heat was very important to keeping labor moving in the cold months.
On the left are rows of dayrooms; on the right is one of two long hallways which connect the two halves of the hospital. The large, center section of the hallway would fit chairs for patients to look out on the gardens. They called it a conservatory. This hallway would be as close as some patients would get to nature.
The boiler room has four big boilers in it, which seems like overkill. No wonder this plant could supply power to the works and the town at full capacity!
The rear of the complex shows the more than 100 year old workhouse–still working! I do not know if the tanks are original to the 1901 elevator, but I suspect so.
There were bins with hundreds of spools in them in the basement.
Taken as I drove out of Silverton, CO. One of my favorite landscapes of 2015. Want a print? Email me!
A ‘Hot Metal Car’ that would transport molten steel across the ‘Hot Metal Bridge’ from the furnaces to the mills.
An experimental shaft dug in the 1950s and its Hoist House.
The main floor of the hospital was crammed with furniture.