Armour Meat Packing Plant Smokestack Deterioration

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Update: Demolished by implosion in April 2016.

There’s been some clear deterioration of the top of the southern smokestack at the Armour Meat Packing Plant.  Compare this photo with this one, from several years ago.  I guess it’s only a matter of time when the crumbling bricks accelerate in their dilapidation.

4 Comments Add yours

  1. Kels says:

    Do you agree with me that the Amour Meat Packing Plant will be demolished with the highway 70 expansion/construction?

    1. Chris Naffziger says:

      Yes, the land has suddenly become much more profitable. See my post about the realtors’ signs going up recently.

  2. Terry D. Garrett says:

    IS ARMOUR STILL UP? IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO SEE SOME ASPECTS OF THE BUILDING GO DOWN LIKE IN ST. LOUIS. I LIKE THE MOLDING AND LINES OF THE PLANT. THE LAST TIME I TRIED TO GET THERE IN SEPT. 2010. THE ROAD WAS BLOCKED OFF AND I DIDN’T ATTEMPT TO GO PAST WHILE ALONE. I JUST WANTED TO TAKE SOME EXTRA SHOTS.

    1. Chris Naffziger says:

      Terry, it is still standing, as of March 2013.

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