Small stained panes and orange brick. I had no idea when I took this picture that the colored glass would turn the insides of the mill into a bright aquamarine. It was a beautiful intersection of nature and industry, in the most unintended way.
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Windows provided the 250-some workers with fresh air and light, and helped to keep flour dust from building up in the air, helping to prevent explosions. Today, machines control air flow better without windows, so they were bricked.
Tarpaper telling time- Wood wittling weather- Rust rot ruins.
The Peavey logo, before it rusted off and the offices were demolished.
Found in one of the rooms that hosted an inpatient chemical dependency unit in its later years. Connect the dots yourself.
This belt-run axle ran a turbine (now gone) to blow fresh air into the mine.
Above my head while taking this picture was the seal of the Department of the Interior.
The two exhaust vents coming out from the boilers en route to the stacks. Plywood marks where where catwalks were removed to extract equipment.
On the Turbine Room floor, one old steam pump still remains, ready to pressurize steam pipes with the hot stuff throughout the car shops and boilers.
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.