I made this picture to give the reader a sense of the slope between the mine buildings and the base of the concentrator. The whole area was really steep, and sometimes required scrambling to get up and down the Picayune Gulch for short distances.
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Additional Sacred Heart Building (1949) Collapse, 2012, Courtesy Chris Naffziger @ http://stlouispatina.blogspot.com/2011/12/st-marys-infirmary.html
The entry point for the painting shed on the top floor. Cars would have a few feet in between them before they entered. Separate sheds would prime and add color.
A ruined platform on the railyard platform side of the warehouse.
This is one of the rooms near Shaft 1 that was converted to be a Dry Room, where workers would wash and change between shifts.
On the top floor of one of the old wards, the slanted roofline makes the this group room more claustrophobic. Portra 160.
A gateway for St. Louis as seen through a gateway (of sorts) in East St. Louis.
It’s unclear where this walkway once connected. Perhaps there used to be a building here that covered the entrance to the Santiago Tunnel…
This ruined skyway looks like it should be at ground level because of the growth, but it’s actually the second floor of the building.
Looking at the casting floor from the roof. In the distance are the copulas where molten metal was poured.