This is where the transformers were housed. Note the steel tracks in the floor for moving equipment around the building.
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The top of the giant arched windows facing the Mississippi and the swing bridge.
Like looking out of an airship.
Looking through perfectly clear water into an abandoned mine room. My guess is that it contained some pumps to keep the mine dry and equipment related to the elevators.
Connecting the Administration building’s tower and top floors is this beautiful cast iron staircase. It was probably designed to help service the clock originally planned to be set in the tower, but when the hospital went over budget the state cancelled the timepiece. Now we are left with a gorgeous stair with little or no real purpose–not that I’m complaining. I am a long-admitted spiral staircase fetishist.
The holes were for men to poke reluctant ore with long poles, with the hope that a lucky jab would let the load slide down into the boat below. Now they’re just traps.
Standing atop the dust collector, the factory breaks down into diverging patterns, processes.
The roof has been replaced since this was taken. Hopefully, that will stem the water damage.
When block glass shatters, it looks like ice.
Between two brick buildings is a metal one with many windows set into it. Having been in many mills of similar design, I conjecture that this was the milling building, where machines ground the corn before it was boiled.