The city constructed a wall in the early 2000s to discourage visitors. Note the staircase is cut off, too.
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The back of the mill reads “Red River Milling Company”
In the brewhouse between the preheating tank and kettle room. The spiral staircase goes into a kettle annex where a few smaller stainless steel kettles hide. If you looked right from this frame you would see the bottom of one of the kettles like the bottom of a steel mixing bowl.
Looking from the main shop into the boiler shop, one of three attached buildings that specialized in certain repairs. One thing that architectural photographers have to work with is an elongated “magic hour” with ideal shadowing and coloring–this photo is a result of that lighting.
Inside the pilot copper concentrator.
Seven TV sets and not one shows my reflection. I’d also like to point out not two of these are the same.
A warped mirror in the rock crusher at the rear of the complex.
Minnesota Power’s Taconite Harbor power station, as seen through the ship loading control room windows.
This old ward, not a victim of remodeling, still has metal screens over the open windows of the doors. It should be obvious why glass were not used.
This was the exterior wall of the roundhouse; engines would have entered on the other side and machinery would line this side, hence the big windows for natural light.