Sunset through a stained window in the headhouse made the floor feel like a heavy industrial Disney movie.
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The coke plant looked more natural through a grimy window.
The front door to the auditorium.
This seemed to be the newest building on the property.
Part of the 1917 mill that had a little bit of roof left over it–most of this building was open to the sky. The birds loved it, but everything metal was quickly becoming too unstable to walk on.
This might have been part of the Pioneer Pellet Plant. It looks to be a ball mill, which pulverizes ore by spinning it with thousands of ball bearings.
One of the cupola air intakes, rattled loose by the demolition downstairs, hangs stranded on the second floor. You can see that the floor I’m standing on in this picture used to extend all the way to the right wall. The blue paint on the wall made the climb absolutely worth it.
The old way to get to the elevator from the mill.
It is unclear whether this area was for coal dumping or ore dumping, though the huge dents in the steel plating suggests the latter.
The powerplant and its dedicated water tower supplied steam for heating and mechanical work.