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01:47 Feb 17 2011
Times Read: 922

Traveling thru the small town of McKee you can’t help but notice the looming building sitting on the hill side above the town. The sunlight reflection off the snow, the brown of the stone against the evergreen of the trees makes for a feeling of admiration for the elders of the town who aspire to build such a building in the past, in the 1930's.

But when you spend time looking up at the building, as I did, you see that the years have not been kind to the place. You notice the roof has collapse in areas, windows busted out and the ever present overgrowth hides this historical building. You can notice all the things wrong with the building, plenty to see.

But you can not help but notice how it sits on that hill, proud to still be part of the town. How it stands in bold defiance of the mistreatment it has suffered at the hands of men. It has held children and young teens as they where taught and the teachers who shaped the minds of this town future. Left behind by the children either thru graduating or when the new school was built and buses drove by, taking the children it held so safely away to a newer building. It sits empty, waiting for the day when the town will need it again.

But now it is to the point that it needs the town to come to its aid. Water has been its downfall. Roof damage has lead to the wooden floors that had been smoothed by the many footsteps of children, to rot. The windows that children would look out upon the town below hold broken glass, the wooden frames giving into the ravages of Mother Nature. The inner walls are giving under the weight of the weaken support beams, water doing the damage that so many children it held could not of come close to. It will fall once the support is gone, the beautiful stone walls will collapse, ending its watchful vigilance over the town. The building it losing the fight to stand proudly, a part of the towns history, waiting for someone to notice its plight. I was lucky enough to be allowed inside, to capture its last stand.

** Still working on it, but do you think the pictures tell the story of the building? It had a lot of junk about, from the man who owned it before the city was able to buy it back. I tried to keep that stuff out of the pictures.

Ok- enough for the night, brain is dead. Heck... had to ask Badger for help with the word vigilance. Such a brain fart. LOL ;)

COMMENTS

ThothLestat
03:01 Feb 17 2011

great pics!

meeper
04:27 Feb 17 2011

Even in the most forgotten, decrepit, and abused places there is still so much beauty. One can only hope that holds true for our lives as much as it does for this building.

NocturnalMistress
22:42 Feb 22 2011

Ducky wants to explore with Rat.

Ducky wants to make pretty pictures and learn, too. :)

You are an awesome photographer, have I told you that?

19:44 Feb 10 2011
Times Read: 956

Photo of the day. :)

COMMENTS

Nightgame
21:25 Feb 10 2011

Yep.... more snow!

sPerAnZa
22:31 Feb 10 2011

The tracks look like a peace symbol to me :)

Random pictures from Friday
19:05 Feb 06 2011
Times Read: 985

Moss -

Wagon wheel-

Norris Dam- 1936

COMMENTS

Selkie
19:11 Feb 06 2011

Wow these are real good! Love 'em all especially the third from the bottom.

Nightgame
22:43 Feb 06 2011

It's been years since I saw Norris dam but even the moss was cool to look at lol

NocturnalMistress
06:58 Feb 08 2011

I could totally live around there.

Really.

I love lakes, dams, rivers, ponds, oceans, and moss.

I feel at home around them.

Maybe Ducky is a good name for me. :P

01:38 Feb 05 2011
Times Read: 1,003

Found a building today while I was on a job. Alone, I took the time to step into it, just to see what it held. It did not take me long to realize it had been some sort of factory in its past, a storage building today. All kinds of machines, cars, boxes, you name it- this place held it.

But it also held a fright elevator, several large vents running along the ceiling of this two/ three store building. You can tell the building had been added onto as the years went by, some offices, some big open spaces.

Has a water tower behind it and the machines that are original of the building that I found left me trying to understand what in the world this building had been at one time. I wanted to post them – see if anyone cared to help ID them? One building held a two story boiler? Steam was a big deal for this building with all the vents. Surely it was not just to heat the place?

Sorry about these photos- I am waiting on my new tripod to get here. And I had to use the flash on some of these to even see them, the building was either bright, or a dark hole. I had to cut my trip short as it started to sleet and I still had 80 miles to travel home. I would love to go back with a tripod. You can clearly see the ones I used crates, chairs, items about me to sit the camera on VS hand held.

Ok- here they are.

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2- Back

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5- Several places had roof damage, collapse in.

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9- These machines come in sets.

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13 You never know… and note the bulking floor, wave in the background.

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15- I was standing there thinking that floor would never support me when I hear talking from that area. What you don’t see is 1/3 of the building is in use, so that answer the question about walking that hallway.

16 – Had to take another picture, different view and settings.

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22 This platform was next to the broiler. I see the radiator type things on the wall.

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26- Even with the sleet, turning around I spotted this and had to go in. The pictures above came from just inside the door. Seems this part of the building was built just a few feet past this broiler.

There were offices, but they were full of stuff, junk, machines, boxes and parts. That area had little light, if any, so no pictures of them. But still- yeah to my first industry building.