Mitchell Mill

A set of air intakes and exhaust pipes over the buried communications and control equipment rooms.

The roof has been replaced since this was taken. Hopefully, that will stem the water damage.

Now, to add a human scale.

A circular common room in one of the original parts of the hospital. When the asylum was especially crowded, this would be filled with patient beds, too. It’s very strange that this floor was not tiled like the other common rooms. It makes me wonder if especially dangerous patients were kept in this ward; those who could not be trusted to not extract and sharpen the ceramic tiles. Portra 160.

In most places, it may seem off for there to be a tunnel door on the top floor of a building, but Ford was that kind of place. This door from the steam plant led into a skyway and tunnel that connected to the main assembly floor.

I wonder when fluorescent lighting was added.

This dirt-brick building hasn’t fared well.

Because Oshkosh is close to Green Bay, the Packers are very popular there. Everywhere in the plant there were traces of ‘Cheese Head’ culture.

I love the big old industrial windows.