The Flickr 1910Sindustrialbuilding Image Generatr

A 1717 street address for a building built in 1919 is too cute.

According to old Racine city directories I looked at online, the Wabers Manufacturing Company was here, and was a manufacturer of agricultural implements.

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In Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, on the west side of Racine Street (Wisconsin Highway 32), south of 17th Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Racine (7014308)
• Racine (county) (1002815)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• blank walls (300002474)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• brickwork (works by material) (300015333)
• corbels (300003610)
• cream (color) (300266242)
• doorways (300002767)
• industrial buildings (300006231)
• manufacturing (300077527)
• paint (coating) (300015029)
• parapets (300002717)
• recessed (300375746)
• remodeling (300135427)
• step pattern (300010229)
• street addresses (300386983)
• surveillance cameras (300266381)
• yellowish white (300127985)

Wikidata items:
• 25 April 2021 (Q69306031)
• 1717 (Q12681579)
• 1910s in architecture (Q11185482)
• 1919 in architecture (Q2744487)
• April 25 (Q2531)
• April 2021 (Q61313052)
• Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI Combined Statistical Area (Q110495108)
• Treaty of Chicago (1833) (Q87256769)
• Wisconsin Highway 32 (Q841056)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Brick walls (sh85016796)

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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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Roanoke (7022213)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• abandoned buildings (300008055)
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• factories (structures) (300006232)
• hazards (300224106)
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• oriented strand board (300380238)
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• stamping (forming) (300053138)
• summer (season) (300133099)
• tin (metal) (300133748)
• urban blight (300163405)
• vines (300132406)

Wikidata items:
• 29 May 2022 (Q69306444)
• 1910s in architecture (Q11185482)
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• metal industry (Q1924906)
• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• Roanoke River and Railroad Historic District (Q16899395)
• Roanoke, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area (Q7339817)
• Southwest Virginia (Q7571371)
• Western Virginia (Q16866888)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Buildings—Virginia (sh90004921)
• Historic industrial sites (sh2009007098)
• Metal stamping (sh85084085)
• Weeds (sh85145920)

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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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Clarksburg (2117793)
• Harrison (county) (2002267)

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• abandoned buildings (300008055)
• brick (clay material) (300010463)
• corners (attribute or configuration) (300404760)
• dairy plants (300006343)
• deterioration (300054106)
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• paint (coating) (300015029)
• tan (color) (300266248)
• three-story (300163795)
• transferring construction equipment (300167975)
• trimming (decorative material) (300183798)
• urban blight (300163405)
• warehouses (300007722)
• white (color) (300129784)

Wikidata items:
• 6 July 2020 (Q57396806)
• 1910s in architecture (Q11185482)
• Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area (Q5127605)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• Glen Elk (Q104889574)
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• July 6 (Q2695)
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• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• North-Central West Virginia (Q7053532)
• telescopic handler (Q1943369)
• Treaty of Fort Stanwix (Q246501)
• vacant building (Q56056305)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Historic districts—West Virginia (sh93001401)
• Ice cream industry (sh85063988)