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 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%…