The Grade-I listed Ditherington Flax Mill was the world's first iron-framed building and is considered one of the most important on the English Heritage At Risk register.
Even more geriatric than the train is the wood-framed building that houses the Hastings Mill Store Museum, located across the city in the neighbourhood of Point Grey.
William Le Baron Jenney, the architect who constructed the world's first iron-and-steel-framed building in the 1880s, set up shop in Chicago, training a crop of architects that pushed the city skyward through internal frames.
Ms. Thompson also opened up the home's interiors by replacing sections of the building's exterior brick walls with mahogany-framed panels of floor-to-ceiling glass.