Mill Hell before the University of Minnesota began developing the area. Now many of the buildings are gone, there are new roads and even bike paths.
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This is part of the oldest section of factory, one that hasn’t had a roof in a long time and all usable equipment has been extracted. The machines pictured would spin sliced beets in boiling water… it was a sealed system before someone cut holes on sides of each unit.
Steel mine hoists, near the place they worked, wait for scrap prices to justify their final removal from Osceola, Michigan.
It looks like this doorway was bricked up while the building behind it was still being used as a rail shop.
Sunrise in SEMI. The shadow of Kurth Malt is cast across ADM-Delmar #1. Clouds behind ADM-Delmar #4 light up. It’s cold and the air smells like train grease.
The ‘working’ part of the furnaces are about a story above ground level, so the catwalks snake above the tree line.
Looking into the main workhouse from the skyway into the annex elevator. But who care? Look at the colors!
Furnace #7, as seen from #6’s catwalks. Cue morning fog.
There were a few large houses on the Old Crow property where employees would live. The glen had little housing.
I wonder when fluorescent lighting was added.