Findleby Urbex

 B&H Machine is a former machine shop that sits on W Parnall in Blackman Twp. The building was abandoned in 2009 due to rapid decreases in consumer sales in the recession. B&H had been operating the building for about 56 years before filing for chapter 7 bankruptcy. I pretty much walked in through the unlocked door, it was pretty easy. Always love the easy places A ventilated, flammable-gas-storage I found by the loading dock, pretty neat-looking thing right? That particular space in this room caved in a few years ago, due to faulty roofing in one corner. This was the main entrance for the facility's birds There was a big ventilation pipe in this building that kept buffeting in the wind, it was kind of loud and startling This is where the bulk of the machine shop room was, there were clusters of pipes in the ceiling, and hole in the roof for ventilation of the machines that made up the entire companies profit The front part of the building was supported with more wooden fra...

Page Road in Jackson is pretty blighted, the road has become a sort of highway, and many companies have gone out of business in a domino effect of bankruptcy. Nobody wants to come out this far This corrugated sheet metal warehouse was called Brewer Salvage From online reviews, the company wasn't favored and got a lot of negative feedback from their customers. The scrap sheds seemed to have all been recently abandoned, all that's left is the structure On a neighboring property, I have no clue what it is This dusty shed was clearly used to store doors and wood planks Further down Page Road is this old farm market that might be able to be put back to use The old green house has completely been taken down, and plants are growing through the floor. Not a good sign for a business like this.

 If you've seen my Michner Plating post, or live in Jackson, you probably have seen the foreboding ruins of Isbell Seed. The complex sits at three stories, built in 1917. Nobody has successfully made it into this fortress due to Jackson City's intense crack-down on exploration. Metal hooks and fences are welded over windows, whilst the building is already completely blocked off with fiberglass, used for the metal process. The last tenant of this property was SalCo engineering, they manufactured machines, machine parts and such. I found this photo in a book called History of Business and Industry in Jackson, Michigan Taken in 1930, this was my attempt to retake the photo: This is what the factory looks like  if you were standing on the opposite end of the building facing the towards that photographer, I guess. in 2022 the greenery surrounding the plant was cut down. Here's a photo I took of the plant before its graffiti-annihilation, and physical destruction. First floor of...

 A very noticeable ruin inconspicuously sits, mostly blocked from view by greenery. The once sprawling complex has been razed down to a single ruined structure. One could not miss the iconic twin smokestacks that edge the industrial ruin. The roof seemed to be made of some kind of concrete sheet, which may have been metal truss with tar paper. This was a neat space for a bathroom basin, the second floor, with a view of the roof. Federal Mogul makes car parts, this would've been the metal forging hall. I assume they poured the shapes and plated them, or made alloys, but I'm no expert. The other half of this demolished skylight included two staircases. One of these mysteriously ended in the air. This space was also a raised bathroom. Time travel would be a very neat thing, yet it is far from reach. There is no doubt this building was designed by Albert Kahn. You can feel it when going to any of his complexes.

 It was pretty hard to find the original name of this facility. Most of the expansive factory had been torn down by the time I'd rolled around. This set of buildings was apparently part of a chemical division. It was odd seeing the old complex from the road, usually the place was shrouded by foliage. The interior was cleaned mostly of junk I assume, or maybe it had always been empty. A lot of the floor space was covered by hallways and rooms which looked like offices. What seems to be a vintage display case, among the silica trash. To the right of that was a nice illumination of the space, which hadn't been cleaned, and had a hole in the roof. Some hallways were cut down to waist level, almost like they had some windows in them once. During a scrap, or cleanup, a chunk of the wall got knocked out. It left behind this electric box.