Solvent pumping buildings, designed to explode upwards rather than outwards in an emergency, are forgotten near the milkweed.
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This machine was last overhauled in February 1955, and last turned out Crepe silk, probably dress material.
The back of the castle is barely visible through the trees that have grown thick around the walls, making it look so much older.
Sidewalks to a boarded barracks, each making the other obsolete in the night.
All of the fire alarms had been triggered.
An impressive message for graffiti in a Detroit warehouse, but then again look at these steam pumps. Over-built and under-appreciated.
The boilers are gone, but round brick portals remain where they used to meet the walls of the boiler room. Behind it appears to be the coal bunker itself.
Sluice tables stretch into the darkness.
On the ground floor of the main factory there seems to be only one chair left.
From the bottom of the skyway I looked back, my eyes tracing the vines from the marsh up the smokestacks to the perfect Midwestern sky.