My first picture at Nopeming, sometime around 2004. The same year that the county stopped mowing the lawn.
See left.
This floor of the workhouse had corkscrew conveyors–big augers–in the floor to move material around. Most of the walls that were metal were missing, leaving the concrete structure and open doors.
In the steam plant, steam pipes bundled in canvas and asbestos criss-cross the walls.
The rumors were true. Success is sweet.
The stone chapel sits beside the main house and received a particularly heavy dose of gothic architectural touches.
A jankey ladder leads to a platform over a wooden tank. Here’s hoping my usage contributes to jankey being accepted into the dictionary! Thanks, lexicographers.
Miners would sit in this room before going into the mine. The boards on the right indicated whether every single miner was “in” or “out”.
A closeup of the now-scrapped steel chute.
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