During a leisurely day of resting at my house, Matt and I came across an article in the local newspaper about the factory. The briefing gave no insight into any future development for the building, but outlined the extensive upcoming plans to board the place up within an inch of it's life. It also mentioned the volunteers who planned on completely emptying the building, i.e., removing its history. Until this point, the few boards on this building had been there since it's initial time of closing, most of which were falling off, decomposed, or completely non existent.

Nevertheless, we figured if we really wanted to explore this place, it was now or never.

So for a few days we went up there and got some good photos of the exterior, and when we got some really nice weather, decided to infiltrate this forgotten piece of history.

We climbed into the building, entering a large room completely stuffed with boards and metal. An impressive fireplace gave initial ideas of its time, however almost completely covered with rubble.

From here, we went through a small hallway and into the next room, in which we saw some mechanical equipment, and the first remnants of jewelry making.

The next room was partially flooded (on our previous exploration of the place, this was a sheet of ice), and led into a room that contained all the equipment currently being used to board the building up. We skipped this section of the building, as most of the boarding hadn't been completed, and we would be clearly visible for any passer-bys to see. A short walk through a long tunnel lead us to a rusted shut door. Matt carefully got it open, and we ascended a small staircase to the second floor.

We walked through several small rooms and noted the completely intact glass ceiling fixture, with green and white paint slowly chipping off from age. The large L-shaped room that took up the majority of the floor was considerably empty. From the edges of the room, through the many open and broken windows that illuminated the room very well, one could clearly see the arch that marks the seperation between the building's large garage, and actual factory. Where the sides of the L met, Matt and I carefully climbed the bird-poop covered spiral staircase to the third floor

The top floor of the factory was nearly identical in design to the second. Although this particular section seemed stuck in a different, more recent time. Piles of unused dry wall, frames, plumbing equipment and tools littered the large third floor room.

Finding our way across the arch and into the garage seemed like an adventure for another day, so we left the factory and headed home, grateful to have been able to experience it's history

~Keti Fallout