Headframe

The side of King that faces the lake is stained yellow-green.

Part of the grain drier system in ADM #1 crawls up the side of the building like a steel vine.

While it looks like ground level, everything here is one story above the actual earth.

When the factory’s production line was up for auction, many parts were removed, crated and labeled with big painted numbers to ease their removal by buyers. Not everything sold, however, so not one dark corner of the factory seems without a pile of dislocated industrial junk.

This dock goes between loading bays (see glass brick walls) and the railroad.

As the Barker steamed past the dock and island, the sunset casts the shadow of the Taconite Harbor receiving trestle on the boat. Through the fog, you can see some of the islands that were joined into a breakwater.

One of the clusters of elevators. Doors would open on both sides so that vehicles could be moved through them if necessary. There is only one set of stairs in the whole building.

The rear of the complex shows the more than 100 year old workhouse–still working! I do not know if the tanks are original to the 1901 elevator, but I suspect so.

The bottom of the elevator in the new foundry.