Abandoned Factory, Walnut Park #2

What was once probably a machine room for the Barry-Wehmiller Machinery Co. sits open to the elements, hosting everything from the remnants of the resale business to the remainder of a game of bowling.

Abandoned Factory, Walnut Park #1

Situated on a quiet backstreet near West Florissant Avenue, the Barry-Wehmiller Machinery Co. sits in a state of increasing ruin.

Later taken over in the 1990's by a wholesale industrial product resale concern, it now sits abandoned, and filled with "stuff."

See an article here about the interior of the factory.

Owned by the City's Land Reutilization Authority, it most likely is polluted and hazardous for use. One can only imagine in 1912, when the factory opened, the sounds of boots on the streets as workers walked down the street from their homes in Walnut Park.

North Pointe, Walnut Park

I snapped some quick shots out the window while driving through the North Point neighborhood last weekend. It is an architecturally diverse part of town, just south of Baden in the far reaches of the city of St. Louis.

Flour Mill, North St. Louis

This huge complex still mills flour, as workers we spoke to confirmed. Massive, hulking and dominating this stretch of I-70, the grain silos have long been a landmark in North City.Now owned by ADM, the silos are no longer kept immaculately white, as the previous owners insisted upon. Workers stated that ADM "didn't want to spend the money."Train tracks snake throughout the property, and the actual physical square feet of the massive building is relatively small.The nearby Wonderbread Bakery, which we couldn't find, is said to be the largest in the world when I went on a tour of the complex in 1986.