The Flickr 1910Sfactory Image Generatr

On the opposite side of this doorway, there is a corresponding 1918 datestone, indicating when the building was built.

This one is telling us the year the Jersild Knitting Company was founded, without coming out and saying so. You're just supposed to know that somehow.

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On Doty Island in Neenah, Wisconsin, on May 22nd, 2024, was the former Jersild Knitting Co. building (built in 1918), nowadays an office building, on the east side of North Commercial Street (Wisconsin Highway 114), south of High Street.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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According to a Sanborn fire insurance map from 1918, this was a hoosiery factory, built in 1917 for the Rockford Knitting & Hosiery Co. The website Spokeo also says the building is from 1917. Now we know.

A bar was here later: A Budweiser neon sign occurs in the center window.

I hoped Google Streetview would tell us what the awning's sign used to say, but no. The vine blob developed sometime after August 2012.

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In downtown Freeport, Illinois, on August 15th, 2021, 301 S Van Buren Ave at the southeast corner of South Van Buren Avenue and West Jackson Street.

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See that the pressed tin decoratively imitates brick and stone walls, rounded shingles, and dressed stone trim.

The "X" placard is speaking in International Fire Code symbols:

R/O: Roof open
S/M: Stairs, steps and landing missing
H/F: Holes in floor
F/E: Avoid fire escapes

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In Roanoke, Virginia, on May 29th, 2022, a factory of the former Dominion Metal Products Corporation, a/k/a the Dominion Metal & Culvert Corporation, built 1912, a "contributing property" in the Roanoke River and Railroad Historic District (13000994 on the National Register of Historic Places), as viewed from the north side of a bridge on Walnut Avenue Southeast, west of Piedmont Street Southeast.

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Sometime some of you urbex people ought to get inside and report back on whether you can find rooms where it still smells like old milk!

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In the Glen Elk neighborhood of Clarksburg, West Virginia, on July 6th, 2020, the former Imperial Ice Cream Co. (erected circa 1915) at the southwest corner of Clark Street and Mayo Street, a "contributing property" to the Glen Elk Historic District, 93001232 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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