Heritage Place Windows
Looking up the side of Heritage Place, one of the mill buildings in the city the has found a second life.
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I’m doing a photographic study of a local mill building for the owners. Heritage Place in Lawrence was purchased, gutted and converted to commercial office space about a decade ago. Great for the owners, bad for me. I prefer to get to these buildings while they are in their original, unfinished state. I did a walk through with the building [...]
Ayer Mill Stairs
The architecture of these 19th century mills have a lot in common. With the exception of the Stone Mill, they are all made primarily of bricks and wooden beams. They were built primarily for function, not form. The tall windows and vast open floor space were designed to maximize natural lighting and accommodate the huge textile looms and hundreds of [...]
Please Come In Thank You
Another blue door at the Malden Mills. I don’t know what I like most about this image. Maybe its the fact that the gable above the doorway is slightly askew or maybe its the very inviting and polite, “Please Come In Thank You” sign. It could be the textures of the brick and peeling blue paint. It could be just [...]
Mill Yard
I went over to the Malden Mill Yard for some late afternoon shooting. The slowly setting sun created some amazing shadow patterns across the mill yard and buildings. I figured it would also be a challenge in post process. This image was shot from the top of a fire escape at the far end of the yard with a sign [...]
