Findleby Urbex

In Core City, Detroit, there is a 3 story tall factory with some peculiar triangular vents on the roof. This was Edmund & Jones, a maker of car parts. Today most of the windows are filled with cinder blocks, and each floor is barren. The top floor is filled with the cinder blocks though. Portions of it were torn down in the scrapping epidemic. There are a few entrances, boarded up but you can easily peel them back and squeeze in. I spotted some of these odd brick-clad pillars on the middle floor. Surprisingly, the top floor had the most junk. Loads of bricks and other 'things'. Many skyline photos have been taken from the roofs of abandoned buildings. I don't think anybody's climbing this ladder anytime soon.

      This is an other one of those places that looks nice, but is abandoned. It is also right in downtown Jackson. The buildings could take an easy renovation, but they opted to tear down a large part of it on the north end of the warehouse. You can see that teal is the color scheme for the property. The larger warehouse had a pretty unusual entrance here, this is a 'service window'. The breaker box is leaking tar. Unusual. This gave gave me a bit of knowledge about the company. It is older than 90 years atleast. A place for workers to wash most likely their hands, cleanup themselves. I overheard about people doing heroin here, which does not sound too unusual... There is a second floor up there, this was probably the loading space for the company's storage of construction materials. That was a vehicle. I don't know how they did it, but they did it good. In 2021 a portion of the flat rubber tar roof was demolished, along with the trees surrounding the area, leaving the...

      There is an industrial area of Core City of Detroit is barely anything today. Here we see what's left is one side of an old railroad bridge, and a water tower with no water tank. It is a pretty odd sight. This used to connect to Northway motors, which burnt down causing the reason for the detachment. A photo of the fire, from dfdlegacy . This is the start of the former bridge, from the other end of the road. Seems like a people hangout here, and dump their garbage as well. Understandably this place is pretty cozy. A small part of the plant was north (left) of the bridge. The rest was across on the other side. For a while this parcel was filled with cars. For a couple decades after the fire a small building stood there before being turned to rubble. Remains of a homeless campsite, after all it's easy to hide from people when you're above  them I'm not sure where the water tank went. 

      Michigan Pressed Brick is usually neglected as an urbex spot, but when it comes to graffiti, the building is just walls. This building used to have a roof, until it burnt down sometime in the 2000s. Now the floor is covered in old tech. Here is a basin to wash your hands. It was bathroom detached from the main structure. There is no more second floor now. If you're brave you can climb the rotting wooden stairs. This is the main room where the old warehouse used to be. You can still lease the property today. The adjacent room was full of old tech bits like keyboards and memory chips, and what was a car. This is barely even a room any more. More like a jungle, the overgrowth was growing over everything. This space has always been empty. I wonder how long it's been since someone climbed these stairs... Makes you wonder how the hell the second floor got warped into this shape. The original lights are still hanging from the old wires. That's pretty cool. This single stor...

      This is an other mystery of Jackson, a company lost, with no marking. Judging by the peeling and rust, these empty tanks have been here for a while, since the early 20th century. I can see why nobody would want to purchase the property, it is practically in the middle of nowhere. Boat dumping is a common practice especially in big cities like Detroit. It is still very peculiar to see them on land, whenever you come across one though. Remains of aging tubes pipes & hoses between lie between the shed and tanks. This is a pretty cool machine. At the bottom the pretty old railroad. There used to be a railway roundhouse nearby. This might be the sketchiest climb yet. A wet wooden walkway... All in all Standard Oil is an interesting and unusual spot; I only found it because of Google Earth. Arriving in summer, there was no graffiti and the trees covered everything.