I’m not sure, actually, whether this was an outhouse (right), but it seems likely. In any case, it was connected by a covered staircase to the Bunk House (left). The soil here was not all tailings, so there is a bit of thick grass–almost the only in sight!
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Looking toward the Quenching Tower from the coal tower platform.
I really liked the bulky pillars on this outer-ring cottage.
Shuttered windows on the side of one of the collapsing bonded warehouses.
The powerplant was roughly in the middle of the rail works.
From the bottom of the skyway I looked back, my eyes tracing the vines from the marsh up the smokestacks to the perfect Midwestern sky.
A dead work truck rusts near an outbuilding. Everything is marked with a code. Modernity.
This was taken before the top of the docks really started to rot-out; now this stretch past the crane is distinctly unsafe to cross. Still, you can’t beat the view of Dock #2 winding into the distance, where the approach is chopped-off before the yard used to extend.
When I looked out of the old mill, I couldn’t help but wonder what the hell was holding it all up.
A street side exposure of the original 1914 section of the orphanage. Turned into black and white to deemphasize all the graffiti across the front steps.