Hoban Cold Storage, Detroit

 Around Dequindre cut is the "greatest" far view of the Detroit skyline. Using satellite imagery time travel you can make some connections; the majority of the wooden structure of this complex, burnt down in the recession from some arsonist or hobo, the remains were demolished by now. I assume scrappers took the boiler components away around the recession too. The building is pretty much just bare bones now.


I walked right in, through a door to a different company building that was abandoned, and neighbored the Hoban site.


As you can see somebody managed to burn up this one too, sometime around 2019 I think?


The boiler building is still standing, despite the collapse of surrounding structures creating a pretty unsound building. I didn't want to walk in, because the floor was just a massive pile of bricks.


Right here is a graffito painted in somebody's documentary they made with artist Haeler/Haels.


The beautiful Detroit skyline again, with a view of many shorter buildings in front. I love it. According to some older satellite images, there was a big conditioner up here, yet it is gone as of 2008.





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

W.H. Anderson Tool & Supply Co. Warehouse, Detroit

Image
The Rivertown-Warehouse District is full of old buildings. Many of the hundreds of brick factories from its era have been demolished years ago. This was one of the old companies that used to operate in the area, once a quite large company, yet now defunct. The exterior was obviously in very bad condition, anybody could just walk in, it seems. It had been like this for years now too. The street had a my undeniably favorite view of the Renaissance center. The warehouse seems to blend in so well with the rest of the buildings in this developed area, that it was often overlooked. The main warehouse room was full of pretty nice furniture, perfect place for any homeless person on the streets; and it also had these weird Tibetan prayer flags put up These are some interesting steel boxes, made for stacking. The ones on the left with the wheels remind me of mine-carts  Parallel to the main warehouse was a long hallway room, which had this mini gantry crane just above my head, luckily it had...
Read more

Michner Plating Co, Jackson

Image
       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...
Read more

Peerless Cement, Detroit

Image
  Peerless cement was an aggregate cement manufacturing company, this was the Detroit location. Sometime in the 2010's a large portion of buildings, the smokestack and the rotating pipes were demolished for space. It was a hot summer day, we had to walk about 8 minutes to this old cement plant, in that heat. That's the DWSD water treatment plant, they were incinerating scum and such today, giving off a stench of trash and synthetic waste. Overall not a fun walk. The ruins of a storage company were to the right of the rails, a graffiti-covered building made of reinforced-concrete and brick The half-decaying but still operational St. Mary's Cement plant can also be spotted from the rail side These silo doors are supposed to be big enough to allow trains to pass through, hence the gargantuan entrance These tubes could be extended for filling of train cars possibly, in fact one of them was extended Have you ever seen a ten story spiral staircase? This is the aggregate storage s...
Read more