Details
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 [...]
Replacement Windows
Probably not the most energy efficient windows ever, which is probably why they are sitting in the middle of the floor of the Duck Mill. Efficiency aside, I couldn’t resist shooting them.
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 [...]
Bolton Emerson Americas: All Hail the King
We return to the big milling machines. I took this shot of a King Milling Machine in action the same day I shot this one. Turns out, it was a lucky day. Of the days I was shooting in the shop, the gigantic milling machines were only in action that day. The other days, the staff were busy milling smaller [...]
Bolton Emerson Americas: Phil
Phil is one of the employees at Bolton Emerson Americas. He was very eager to show me around and tell me about the company. He was working this lathe machine (or is it a milling machine? I should have paid attention) in the small machine section of the shop one morning I was there. I asked him to hold still [...]
