National Archive Publishing, Ann Arbor

     Have you ever seen an abandoned building so good at being hidden in plain sight? Well here is the old NAPC building, part of what was once a group of companies, NAPC split off and then went out of business. But the land is for sale so they keep it clean and fresh to lure in buyers.


On one of the doors is on of those NFPA 704s on this little sign. The blue seems to have disappeared.


There was also this shed in the back that had next to nothing in it.


To get in I climbed through a smashed in window on a door, that smell hit me instantly. The mold.


I had ended up in the best room, the boiler room. There were a bunch of old fashioned valves and green pipes.


In the room were 3 boilers. The orange one was the smallest.



The building's definitely bigger on the inside. This room was two floors tall.


The complex was gigantic from an inside perspective again. It got dark real quick. Here's some pipes.


Somewhere inside was a desk with some stuff. Have no idea why that swimming pool test kit is here.


This place is still terrifying. Seen as how weak this light was compared to the hall. On the left is an echo room. Had some fun there.


These lil cards still had writing on them. you can bring em' home and hang them on your wall before they tear this place down. 


    After I got out, and walked back it started to rain a little, then a lot. I was so soaked you wouldn't believe because I had to make the 500 foot run in rain blowing right towards me. Always check the weather.

PART 2

    This time there wasn't a cloud in the sky, a very nice summer day. Only 2 days after I went there the first time. Now I could see all of it yeah?


This furniture mysteriously appeared about 2 years after I came here in 2018.


Sun microsystems? Heard that name in a while? This would be worth 10,000 at most if it still worked.


My first disappointment was that the "film vault" was locked. Not much of a surprise. They even used comic-sans.


Here is that door. a support beam fell down some time a couple years ago and destroyed the wall.



Another creepy hallway.


These are some top-notch sliding windows. It looks late 20th century.


Self-Advertising in their own building. I want that banner.


Going  down the hallway was a stairwell to a substation (gone a while ago) on the roof. Here are the breakers.



Somewhere in a hallway. I wonder what it's about.







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