I’ve started to notice a pattern here: I keep showing up just in time. Not at the height of things, and not long after they’re gone, but in that narrow window when a place is still standing, still recognizable, and just beginning to slip away. Indiana’s old county homes seem especially prone to that timing, and that’s exactly how I found the old DeKalb County Home.

A while back, I shared a map of the tunnels under the oldest part of Ball State I created using a 1950s Sanborn fire insurance map. A few weeks later, I posted an updated map after a friend sent me an underground schematic from 1982. Several days ago, someone sent me the official map! I’m not going to post it here, but it appears as though mine was pretty accurate.