Birtle’s Indian Residential School that can be seen today was built in 1930 and managed by the Presbyterian church. It was one of many such structures built as part of Canada’s aggressive assimilation policy, wherein […]
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Birtle Indian Residential School
Centennial Copper Mine
Upper Michigan
It operated for more than a century in various forms, but there’s something timeless about the giant headframe standing silent in a field.
Dry Dock Engine Works
Detroit, MI
What do steam engines, Henry Ford, and shipbuilding have in common? Sure, Detroit, but let’s be specific–I give you the Dry Dock Engine Works, a Detroit relic about to go through yet another overhaul…
Holy Name Catholic Church
Kansas City, MO
During the Kansas City riots following Martin Luther King’s assassination this circa-1911 gothic revival was the site of a nearly tragic stampede.
Horace Mann Elementary
Kansas City, MO
Somewhere between the bricks and boards, cats in a row fish forever.
Huron-Portland Cement
Duluth, MN
Huron-Portland Cement Company came to Duluth in 1917, and it operated there until 2008.
Island Station
Power Plant
Saint Paul, MN
This is my goodbye to a St. Paul power plant currently being demolished: ISLAND STATION. It served in a limited capacity from 1924 to 1973, but its iconic steel smokestack left an impression on me and thousands of other St. Paul residents, past and present.
Klotz Silk Throwing Mill
Lonaconing, MD
In 1957, the managers of this circa-1905 silk mill chained the doors closed. Virtually nothing inside has been touched for more than half a century.. Introducing Klotz: the last silk mill of its kind, anywhere.
Louisville Cooperage
Louisville, KY
Exploring a strange, large, unidentified industrial abandonment in the middle of Louisville, Kentucky–then I find out what it was years later.
Lowertown Depot
(The Standard Oil Warehouse)
Saint Paul, MN
Lowertown Depot is neither a depot, nor is it in Lowertown. Its past is equally obtuse, blending the history of a railroad, an oil company, and the sandstone bluffs of St. Paul themselves.
Lyric Theatre
Hamilton, ON
Before it was demolished, one could venture above the tacky suspended ceiling of this movie house to revisit its Vaudeville past.