Drafter’s Tunnel

This seems to be the space where upholstery patterns would be drafted. On the table were half-finished notes on a new design.

In the grungy control room, I found a little slice that was never graffitied.

A US Army Corps of Engineers tug, tied at the end of the pier before the American Victory was parked here.

A closeup of a soon-to-be-scrapped crane pulley.

One of the underground creeks in Duluth, somewhere under the East Hillside neighborhood.

At the end of one of the crumbling plaster-walled wards is a table. It sits behind a nurse’s station, and we do not need to guess what it was for.

A mix of brick and stone construction where the stock house meets the cellars. The caves brought well water to the brewery and drained the refuse away, and the various sewer connections are visible here and tell the story of the company’s expansion above.

As if they were planning to move the furniture out of the hospital, it all sits in the main hallway in the ground floor.

Note the really old carvings in the mineral-stained sandstone on the walls and ceiling. This little cave was walled-off on one end, making me wonder what the area was for. Lighting is a set of three candles and two LED flashlights and a cigarette.