I’ve watched the slow death of the Hunter Meat Packing Plant for close to four years now, and it’s finally coming down into a pile of rubble, replaced at least for the time-being with a tanker truck lot. I never liked Hunter as much as Armour, but it still had its charms, from the paper-like…
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National City Slaughter Houses
Image courtesy of Andrew Faulkner. Update: Everything in this postcard is now demolished.
Hunter Meat Packing Plant #2
Update: The entire plant was demolished in 2012. Here is the Hunter Meatpacking Plant, hiding in plain view, so to speak. It is in a state of partial demolition, in which it has remained for many years. You might think I am a complete idiot for stepping inside this building, but it is remarkably stable–and…
Hunter Meat Packing Plant “American Beauty” Moment
Do you remember that scene from American Beauty where the weirdo dating Kevin Spacey’s daughter shows her a tape of a plastic bag blowing around in the wind? I thought of that when I saw this piece of paper dangling between the staircases in the offices of the old Hunter Meatpacking plant. How, after the…
National City Stockyard District Preview
Update: Armour, Hunter Meatpacking and the mule barns have been demolished as of July 2016. The status of the roundhouse is undetermined as of July 2016. Here is a preview of much new material that I will be focusing on for the next couple of weeks. Above is the remnants of the Hunter Meatpacking Plant….
Hunter Meat Packing Plant First Image
Update: The plant was completely demolished in 2012.
Hunter Meatpacking Plant #1
Update: The plant was completely demolished in 2012. Wandering around aimlessly, my crew and I found the partially demolished Hunter Meatpacking Plant in the old National Stockyards. I mused that maybe the reason they stopped demolition was that they realized what an architecturally interesting building the plant was. OK, I admit that there is 98%…