Making my way up to the top floor of the Turbine Building I found myself inside a concrete cathedral rising high above my head. This was a cavernous room a good two and a half stories in height with no internal support columns messing up the view. High above me I could see the doorway that lead to the roof, the ladder that once got you there cut off a few feet down. Below it nothing by empty space, surrounding on three sides by large window openings bathing the interior in light. Somewhere inside it all once sat the turbine and generators used to create electricity for the mill. Now only holes remains where it once sat. The machine was no doubt disassembled and removed through the large hole now present in the eastern wall.

Here is a view of the south wall, looking up the entire length of the wall to the ceiling. The amount of windows inside here is amazing, most likely used not just for natural light but for ventilation for the turbine and generating equipment.

Now we turn towards the western wall. There are not as many windows here, most likely due to the fact that behind this wall is the large ridge supporting the railroad trestle running to the mill itself. Any windows here would have simply looked out at dirt. At the bottom of this shot you can see the large hole in the floor that might have been part of the turbine machinery. Its also the hole I climbed up through to get here. (see the big picture)

Now continuing our turn to the north this time we see more windows. If we turned around you would see more windows like these, only with a large hole smashed through the middle set where they most likely removed the turbine years ago. (see the big picture)

Now a closer look at the hole in the middle of the floor. You can also see a circular hole which I think was were the steam pipe came up here from below.

At the end of the turbine hole sits two of these. They appear to be foundations for some type of equipment, probably some sort of electrical machinery I would guess.

Sitting along the floor on the buildings south/west side are these lines of tubes sticking up out of the floor. These continue down to the floor below and is how the electrical wiring was brought outside I think.

A closer look at one of those electric conduits in the floor.

Heres a map of the second floor, showing the location of some of these items featured here. Besides the awe inspiring cathedral like room – nothing else of much interest remains. No doubt it was all removed after the mill’s closing. Now only the concrete shell of the building remains. That probably won’t last much longer either unfortunately.