Michner Plating Co, Jackson

     At 520 Mechanic St. is a building that is over 100 years old, the structure was constructed for a company called SM Isbell Seed. Isbell's Seeds was a grain/seed/bean refining business that was located in that city. 

This building is very noticeable due to its odd-shaped roofs and fiberglass windows, and recently it's weight in graffiti, but this post is not about that structure. It is about Michner Plating, the ones who expanded the site.


There are 2 sections, both owned by the city, a different, three-story building was the former Isbell Seed complex, but I recently found ways in and will probably go there sometime...

Part 1 (Free entry)

This was the first time I got in, through a door somebody had knocked in back in 2018. There was barely any graffiti inside due to how shut-up it was. I went through a (now blocked) hole in a fence by the railroad.


On the right is a loading bay door, letting in light. Notice the windows? The complex was expanded multiple times. you can even see the old overhanging.


It's always weird when buildings expand and they leave the old windows in them, especially when they get painted over..

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It wasn't hard to find the boiler. There were several barrels of waste in some nooks. This place was cleaned by the EPA in 2015. That's when the last owner, SalCo left the south-wing of the building.


This is the old main room of the north-wing, where they did chrome plating. Pretty nice skylights and fan silhouettes.


This might've been some form of furnace, judging by that pretty thick door.

PART 2 (The soak)


I released a walk through the north-wing of the building in video, when it was raining. Eerie.

This time a friend had did some handy-work. He also had went there but decided to do it himself and told me later (that's why I came when it was raining)


Further beyond the junk in this pic is that skylight room. This place is chalked full of old odd junk.


More plating machines. Michner Plating was a foreclosure, I assume everything to pipes was sold. That's how it caught fire, cutting pipes.


I wandered further and ended up at this massive newer machine with some big tanks and a huge walk-in nickel plating mechanism.




An outgoing rack coming from the nickel line.


I still have no idea what the hell this is. About 10 feet tall metal clad.


PART 3 (The collapse)


I hated using this entrance, there was a bunch of rust dust on old wood. Once entering you'd have to walk around the plating stuff.


A big machine that was around the EPA's cleanup zone, notice there is a yellow salvage barrel.


Returning to the nickel plating machine; in the light, to show you an other perspective.


Something I didn't notice while I was here last time, a light board of all the machines functioning parts.




Looks like the roof collapsed since last I was here.



The previously unsearched office. I later found a whole roll of film in here.



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